LIST OF PLATES

PLATEFACING PAGE
I.Hildegard receiving the Light from Heaven (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 1 r)[Frontispiece]
II.The Three Scripts of the Wiesbaden Codex B (fo. 17 r, col. b; fo. 32 v, col. b; fo. 205 r, col. b)[4]
III.Title-page of the Heidelberg Codex of the Scivias[5]
IV.The Universe (from the Heidelberg Codex of the Scivias)[12]
V.(a) Opening lines of the Copenhagen MS. of the Causae et Curae. (b) Opening lines of the Lucca MS. of the Liber divinorum operum simplicis hominis[13]
VI.Nous pervaded by the Godhead and controlling Hyle (Lucca MS., fo. 1 v)[20]
VII.Nous pervaded by the Godhead embracing the Macrocosm with the Microcosm (Lucca MS., fo. 9 r)[21]
VIII.The Macrocosm, the Microcosm, and the Winds (Lucca MS., fo. 27 v)[28]
IX.Celestial Influences on Men, Animals, and Plants (Lucca MS., fo. 371)[28]
X.A Crucifix in the Uffizi Gallery; about the middle of the thirteenth century[30]
XI.The Structure of the Mundane Sphere (Lucca MS., fo. 86 v)[32]
XII.(a) Man’s Fall and the Disturbance of the Elemental Harmony (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 4 r). (b) The New Heaven and the New Earth (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 224 v)[33]
XIII.The Last Judgement and Fate of the Elements (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 224 r)[36]
XIV.Diagram of the Relation of Human and Cosmic Phenomena: ninth century (Bibliothèque Nationale MS. lat. 5543, fo. 136 r)[37]
XV.An Eleventh-century French Melothesia (Bibliothèque Nationale MS. lat. 7028, fo. 154 r)[40]
XVI.A Melothesia of about 1400 (from Bibliothèque Nationale MS. lat. 11229, fo. 45 v)Between [40] and 41
XVII.Facsimile from the Symbolum Apostolicorum, a German Block Book of the first half of the Fifteenth Century(Heidelberg University Library)Between [40] and 41
XVIII.An Anatomical Diagram of about 1298 (Bodleian MS.Ashmole 399, fo. 18 r)[41]
XIX.Birth. The Arrival and Trials of the Soul (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 22 r)[44]
XX.Death. The Departure and Fate of the Soul (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 25 r)[45]
XXI.The Fall of the Angels (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 123 r)[46]
XXII.The Days of Creation and the Fall of Man (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 41 v)[48]
XXIII.The Vision of the Trinity (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 471)[50]
XXIV.(a) Sedens Lucidus (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 213 v). (b) Zelus Dei (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 153 r)[52]
XXV.The Heavenly City (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 30 r)[54]
XXVI.John Wilfred Jenkinson[57]
XXVII.Mundinus (?) lecturing on Anatomy (from the 1493 edition of ‘Ketham’)[78]
XXVIII.(a) Four Diagrams, to illustrate the Anatomy of Henri de Mondeville (Bibliothèque Nationale MS. fr. 2030, written in 1314). (b) A Dissection Scene, circa 1298 (Bodleian MS. Ashmole 399, fo. 34 r)[79]
XXIX.A Post-Mortem Examination: late fourteenth century to illustrate Guy de Chauliac (Montpellier, Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Médecine MS. fr. 184, fo. 14 r)[80]
XXX.(a) A Demonstration of Surface Markings: second half of fifteenth century (Vatican MS. Hispanice 4804, fo. 8 r). (b) A Demonstration of the Bones to illustrate Guy de Chauliac: first half of fifteenth century (Bristol Reference Library MS., fo. 25 r)[81]
XXXI.Anatomical Sketches from the MS. of Guy de Vigevano of 1345 at Chantilly[84]
XXXII.Anatomical Sketches from the MS. of Guy de Vigevano of 1345 at Chantilly[85]
XXXIII.The Five-Figure Series: Veins, &c., Arteries, Nerves, Bones, Muscles (Bodleian MS. Ashmole 399, fos. 18 r–22 r): about 1298[92]
XXXIV.Demonstrations of Anatomy: second half of fifteenth century (Dresden Galen MS.)[93]
XXXV.A View of the Internal Organs: Leonardo da Vinci (from a drawing in the Library, Windsor Castle)[96]
XXXVI.Two Persons dissecting, traditionally said to represent Michelangelo and Antonio della Torre (from a drawing in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, attributed to Bartolomeo Manfredi (1574?–1602))[97]
XXXVII.Portrait of Giovanni Bentivoglio II, from his tomb in the Church of S. Giacomo Maggiore at Bologna[102]
XXXVIII.(a) Roger Bacon’s Diagram of the Eye: thirteenth century (British Museum MS. Roy. 7 F. VIII, fo. 50 v). (b) Leonardo da Vinci’s Diagram of the Heart: early sixteenth century (from a drawing in Windsor Castle)[103]
XXXIX.Miracles at the Tomb of Edward the Confessor, from Norman-French thirteenth-century MS. (University Library, Cambridge, MS. Ee. iii. 59)[166]
XL.Queen Mary Tudor blessing Cramp-Rings (from Queen Mary’s Illuminated MS. Manual, in the Library of the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Westminster)[178]
XLI.Facsimile of the Tractatus de Causis et Indiciis Morborum, attributed to Maimonides (Bodleian MS., Marsh 379)[225]

ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT

SCIENTIFIC VIEWS AND VISIONS OF SAINT HILDEGARD

FIGUREPAGE
1.The Hildegard Country[3]
2.Hildegard’s First Scheme of the Universe (slightly simplified from the Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 14 r)[9]
3.Hildegard’s Second Scheme of the Universe (reconstructed from her measurements)[29]
4.Dante’s Scheme of the Universe (slightly modified from Michelangelo Caetani, duca di Sermoneta, La materia della Divina Commedia di Dante Allighieri dichiarata in VI tavole)[31]
5.Diagram of the Zones (from Herrade de Landsberg, Hortus deliciarum)[40]
6, 7.Melothesiae (from R. Fludd, Historia utriusque cosmi, 1619)[41]
8.The Microcosm (from R. Fludd, Philosophia sacra seu astrologia cosmica, 1628)[42]
9.Diagram illustrating the relationship of the Planets to the Brain (from Herrade de Landsberg, Hortus deliciarum)[48]
A STUDY IN EARLY RENAISSANCE ANATOMY
1.The first printed picture of Dissection (from the French translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus, 1482)[80]
2.Dissection Scene in the open air (Title-page of Mellerstadt’s edition of the Anatomy of Mondino, 1493)[82]
3.Dissection Scene (from the 1495 edition of ‘Ketham’)[83]
4.The first picture of Dissection in an English-printed book (from the English translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus, printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1495)[85]
5.A Lecture on Anatomy (from the 1535 edition of Berengar of Carpi’s Commentary on Mondino)[85]
6.Diagrams of the Internal Organs (after Bodleian MS. Ashmole 399, of about 1298)[88]
7.A Female Figure laid open to show the Womb and other Organs (from the 1493 edition of ‘Ketham’)[91]
8.The Abdominal Muscles (from Berengar of Carpi’s Commentary on Mondino, 1521)[96]
9.The first printed Map of England (from the 1472(?) Bologna Ptolemy, edited by Manfredi and others)[100]
10.Facsimile of the last page of Manfredi’s Prognosticon ad annum 1479[102]
11.Diagram showing the ten Layers of the Head, the Cerebral Ventricles and Cranial Nerves, and the Relation of the Nerves to the Senses (from M. Hundt, Antropologium, 1501)[112]
12.The Layers of the Head (from the Anatomia of Johannes Dryander, 1537)[112]
13.Diagram showing the Ventricles of the Brain (from Illustrissimi philosophi et theologi domini Alberti magni compendiosum insigne ac perutile opus Philosophiae naturalis, 1496)[114]
14.Diagram of the Senses, the Humours, the Cerebral Ventricles, and the Intellectual Faculties. To illustrate Roger Bacon, De Scientia Perspectiva, (British Museum MS. Sloane 2156, fo. 11 r)[116]
15.Diagram illustrating the general ideas on Anatomy current at the Renaissance (from K. Peyligk. Philosophiae naturalis compendium, 1489)[116]
16.Diagrams of the Cerebral Ventricles viewed from above and from the side (from K. Peyligk, Philosophiae naturalis compendium, 1489)[117]
17.The Localization of Cerebral Functions (from the 1493 edition of ‘Ketham’)[117]
18.Diagram of the Ventricles and the Senses, with their relation to the intellectual processes, according to the doctrine of the Renaissance anatomists (from G. Reisch, Margarita philosophiae, 1503)[117]
19.The Anatomy of the Eye (from G. Reisch, Margarita philosophiae, 1503)[120]
20.The Anatomy of the Eye (from Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica, 1543)[121]
21.The Heart (from the Roncioni MS., Pisa 99)[127]
22.Diagram showing the two Lateral Ventricles and the ‘Central’ Ventricle, (from Johannes Adelphus, Mundini de omnibus humani corporis interioribus menbris Anathomia, 1513)[128]
23.The Heart (from Hans von Gersdorff, Feldt- und Stattbüch bewerter Wundartznei, 1556)[129]
DR. JOHN WEYER AND THE WITCH MANIA
Portrait of Dr. John Weyer at the age of 60, 1576[189]