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    The Hortus deliciarum (Latin for Garden of Delights) was a medieval manuscript compiled by Herrad of Landsberg at the Hohenburg Abbey in Alsace, better...
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    mountains. She was known as the author of the pictorial encyclopedia Hortus deliciarum (The Garden of Delights). Born about 1130 at the castle of Landsberg...
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    abbess Herrad of Landsberg with her community of women as part of the Hortus deliciarum. Their encyclopedia compiled ideas drawn from philosophy, theology...
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    illustration of the banquet of Queen Esther and King Ahasuerus in the Hortus deliciarum from the Alsace region (today France) may contain the earliest depiction...
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    Medieval pack horse and donkey in Hortus Deliciarum, Europe, 12th century, when packing was a major means of transport of goods...
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    manuscript Hortus Deliciarum ca. 1170 CE, Strasbourg (online catalog Oberlin College) Psycomachia Virtues folio 201r of manuscript Hortus Deliciarum ca. 1170...
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    The sower as illustrated in Hortus deliciarum compiled by Herrad of Landsberg at the Hohenburg Abbey in Alsace (12th century)....
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    Medieval illustration of hell in the Hortus deliciarum manuscript of Herrad of Landsberg (about 1180)...
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    interpretation upon the observation that Herrad of Landsberg's manuscript (Hortus deliciarum, completed c. 1185) clearly depicted the two-colored bird as symbolic...
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  • Pretzel depicted at a banquet of Queen Esther and King Ahasuerus. 12th century Hortus deliciarum....
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