The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 1 of 2) / A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages

by Henry Osborn Taylor

[556] Pitra, o.c. 394, 395.

[557] By visio as used here, Hildegard refers to the general undefined light—the umbra viventis lucis, in which she saw her special visions.

[558] Pitra, o.c. 332.

[559] This is from the prologue to the Scivias, Pitra, o.c. 503, 504 (Migne 197, 483, 484). Guibert in his Vita speaks of Hildegard as indocta and unable to penetrate the meaning of Scripture nisi cum vis internae aspirationis illuminans eam juvaret, Pitra, o.c. 413. Compare Hildegard’s prooemium to her Life of St. Disibodus (Pitra, o.c. 357) and the preface to her Liber divinorum operum (Migne 197, 741, 742).

[560] Guibertus to Radilfus, a monk of Villars (Pitra, o.c. 577) apparently written in 1180.

[561] Pitra, o.c. pp. 1-244.

[562] Pitra, o.c. pp. 8-10. The translation is condensed, but is kept close to the original.

[563] Ibid. p. 13.

[564] Pitra, o.c. p. 24.

[565] Ibid. p. 51 sqq.