Herrad of Landsberg was a 12th-century Alsatian nun and abbess of Hohenburg Abbey in the Vosges mountains. She was known as the author of the pictorial encyclopedia Hortus deliciarum.
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Herrad of LandsbergSelfportrait from Hortus deliciarum, c. 1180. The description in Latin reads: "Herrat hohenburgensis abbatissa post Rilindam ordinata ac monitis et exemplis eius instituta". These are the initial words of the description from the last miniature (fol. 322-323) of the Hortus deliciarum.![Wall painting depicting nuns of Hohenburg Abbey. The Latin inscription reads: "Mons Hohenburc dellifer (sic) id est sublimus".[a] Herrad is featured on the right side.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/MontStOdile_073.JPG/1280px-MontStOdile_073.JPG)
Wall painting depicting nuns of Hohenburg Abbey. The Latin inscription reads: "Mons Hohenburc dellifer (sic) id est sublimus".[a] Herrad is featured on the right side.
Hohenburg Abbey at the Mont St Odile
The Three Magi, an illustration from the reproductions of the Hortus deliciarum by Christian Moritz Engelhardt, 1818Artists born in the 1130s 2
About this person
Category
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1130 to 1196 · aged 66
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