Herrad von Landsberg

Herrad von Landsberg was an Alsatian abbess active in the twelfth century at Hohenburg Abbey who compiled the Hortus deliciarum, an encyclopaedic illuminated manuscript that included texts, illustrations and musical notation of liturgical and didactic music. Her work combined liturgical chant, vernacular poetry and polyphonic pieces within a pedagogical, theological and artistic framework, preserving examples of twelfth-century monastic musical practice and visual culture.

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