Hildegard of Bingen
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Hildegard of Bingen, also known as the "Sibyl of the Rhine", was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath, active during the High Middle Ages as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and
Illumination from Hildegard's Scivias (1151) showing her receiving a vision and dictating to teacher Volmar
Scivias I.6: The Choirs of Angels. From the Rupertsberg manuscript, folio 38r.
The Church and Mother of the Faithful in Baptism. Illustration to Scivias II.3, fol. 51r from the 20th-century facsimile of the Rupertsberg manuscript, c. 1165–1180.
Excerpt from a 12th century manuscript, preserved in the Ghent University Library
Lingua ignota
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A lingua ignota was described by the 12th-century abbess Hildegard of Bingen, who apparently used it for mystical purposes. It consists of vocabulary with no known grammar; the only known text is indi
Hildegard of Bingen
…early example of liturgical drama and arguably the oldest surviving morality play. She is noted for the invention of a constructed language known as Lingua Ignota. Although the history of her formal canonization is complicated, regional calendars of the Catholic Church have listed her as a saint for centuries…
St. Hildegard's 23 litterae ignotae
Unknown painter Transfiguration of Christ WGA23487