The Dendermonde Codex or sometimes called Villarenser Kodex or codex 9 of Dendermonde Abbey, is a valuable manuscript containing the of

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History

This valuable manuscript is owned by Dendermonde Abbey.

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believe it was first sent to the Belgian

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, hence the name Villarensis. It then moved to

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and finally it arrived in the famous

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, where the monks were chased out in 1796. In 1837, the Affligem community re-established conventual life in Dendermonde. When a colony of monks from Dendermonde returned to the original site of Affligem Abbey, the manuscript remained in Dendermonde. The Bingen manuscript is considered the most valuable of the library, and is world famous. In August 2017, the abbey entrusted the manuscript to the library of the Faculty of Theology at the

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for conservation.

The Manuscript

The collection of songs inside the codex was named by Hildegard ''Symphonia Harmoniae Caelestium Revelationum''. The current manuscript is not complete as several folios are missing. However, it still contains 183 folios, made of parchment, containing 60 psalmes and cantica in honour of Father and Son. It is dated ca. 1176 A.D. and is considered one of the major works by Hildegard von Bingen.

Compositions

* 1. frondens Virga * 2. O splendissima gemma * 3. Ave Maria, o auctrix vite * 4. O eterne Deus * 5. O clarissima mater * 6. O gloriosissimi lux * 7. Cum processit factura digiti Die * 8. O tu suavissima virga

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Digital reproduction of the manuscript

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The Manuscript

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