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
St. Hildegard's 23 litterae ignotae
Unknown painter Transfiguration of Christ WGA23487
Hermeneutic style
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The hermeneutic style is a style of Latin in the later Roman and early Medieval periods characterised by the extensive use of unusual and arcane words, especially derived from Greek. The style is firs
Lingua ignota
…spread by Irish monks during the period from the sixth century to the tenth century. It used unusual words and loanwords from Greek, Hebrew and Irish. Hermeneutic style, a style of Latin in the later Roman and early medieval periods characterized by the extensive use of unusual and arcane words, especially derived from…
Depiction of Apuleius, the first writer known to have used the hermeneutic style
The beginning of the Regularis Concordia, drafted by Æthelwold in hermeneutic style