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[[File:Hitda-EvangeliarHeilungSchwiegermutter.jpg|thumb|The Healing of [[Saint Peter|St Peter's]] mother-in-law]]
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The '''Hitda Codex''', an eleventh-century [[codex]] containing an [[evangeliary]], a selection of passages from the [[Gospels]], commissioned by Hitda, [[Meschede|abbess of Meschede]] about 1020, is conserved in the Hessische Landesbibliothek, [[Darmstadt]], Germany.<ref>Hessische Landesbibliothek, MS 1640.</ref> Hitda is depicted in the book'a dedication miniature presenting the codex to the convent'a patron, St Walburga.


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The '''Hitda Codex''' is an eleventh-century [[codex]] containing an [[evangeliary]], a selection of passages from the [[Gospels]], commissioned by Hitda, [[Meschede|abbess of Meschede]] in about 1020. It is held at [[University and State Library Darmstadt]].<ref>Hessische Landesbibliothek, MS 1640.</ref> Hitda is depicted in the book's dedication miniature presenting the codex to the convent's patron, [[Saint Walpurga|Saint Walburga]]. St. Walburga stands on a pedestal in the center of the composition, and has a golden halo surrounding her head. Behind the two women is the [[monastery]] that Hitda oversees, which fills the entire background.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stokstad |first=Marilyn |title=Medieval Art |publisher=Westview Press |year=2004 |location=Colorado |pages=179}}</ref>
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The [[Illuminated manuscript|illuminations]] are highlights of the Cologne school in the later phases of the [[Ottonian Renaissance]]. The Hitda Codex contains the only surviving [[Life of Christ in art|''Life of Christ'']] cycle of illuminations produced in Cologne from this period.<ref>Noted by R. Schilling, reviewing the exhibition of Carolingian and Ottonian illuminated manuscripts at the Kunstmuseum Berne, in ''The Burlington Magazine'', '''92''' No. 564 (March 1950:82.</ref> The cycle's cultural context has been replicated by Henry Mayr-Harting.<ref>Henry Mayr-Harting, ''Ottonian Book Illumination. Part One: Themes. Part Two: Books'', sect. III, London, 1991.</ref>

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The [[Illuminated manuscript|illuminations]] are highlights of the [[Cologne School of Painting|Cologne school]] in the later phases of the [[Ottonian Renaissance]]. The Hitda Codex contains the only surviving [[Life of Christ in art|''Life of Christ'']] cycle of illuminations produced in Cologne from this period.<ref>Noted by R. Schilling, reviewing the exhibition of Carolingian and Ottonian illuminated manuscripts at the Kunstmuseum Berne, in ''The Burlington Magazine'', '''92''' No. 564 (March 1950:82.</ref> The cycle's cultural context has been replicated by Henry Mayr-Harting.<ref>Henry Mayr-Harting, ''Ottonian Book Illumination. Part One: Themes. Part Two: Books'', sect. III, London, 1991.</ref>

==Gallery==
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File:Hitda-EvangeliarHeilungSchwiegermutter.jpg|The Healing of [[Saint Peter|St Peter's]] mother-in-law
File:Healing of the demon-possessed.jpg|Healing of the demon-possessed
File:Hitda Codex - dedication miniature f6r - DarmBib 1640.jpg|Dedication miniature
File:Hitda-Codex-Healing of a man with a withered hand.jpg|Healing of a man with a withered hand
File:HitdaMeschedeDarmstadtCod1640fol171.jpg|[[Jesus and the woman taken in adultery]]
File:11th-century painters - Hitda Codex - WGA15922.jpg|[[Raising of the son of the widow of Nain]]
File:MajestasDominiHitdaC.jpg|[[Christ in Majesty]]
File:Meister des Hitda-Evangeliars 003a.jpg|[[Baptism of Christ]]
File:Meister des Hitda-Evangeliars 004.jpg|[[Annunciation]]
File:HitdaMeschedeDarmstadtCod1640fol117r.jpg|[[Calming the storm]]
</gallery>


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The Hitda Codex is an eleventh-century codex containing an evangeliary, a selection of passages from the Gospels, commissioned by Hitda, abbess of Meschede in about 1020. It is held at University and State Library Darmstadt.[1] Hitda is depicted in the book's dedication miniature presenting the codex to the convent's patron, Saint Walburga. St. Walburga stands on a pedestal in the center of the composition, and has a golden halo surrounding her head. Behind the two women is the monastery that Hitda oversees, which fills the entire background.[2]

The illuminations are highlights of the Cologne school in the later phases of the Ottonian Renaissance. The Hitda Codex contains the only surviving Life of Christ cycle of illuminations produced in Cologne from this period.[3] The cycle's cultural context has been replicated by Henry Mayr-Harting.[4]

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  1. ^ Hessische Landesbibliothek, MS 1640.
  2. ^ Stokstad, Marilyn (2004). Medieval Art. Colorado: Westview Press. p. 179.
  3. ^ Noted by R. Schilling, reviewing the exhibition of Carolingian and Ottonian illuminated manuscripts at the Kunstmuseum Berne, in The Burlington Magazine, 92 No. 564 (March 1950:82.
  4. ^ Henry Mayr-Harting, Ottonian Book Illumination. Part One: Themes. Part Two: Books, sect. III, London, 1991.
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