Hitda Codex

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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 conserved in the Hessische Landesbibliothek, Darmstadt, Germany.^[1] Hitda is depicted in the book's dedication miniature presenting the codex to the convent's patron, St Walburga.

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.^[2] The cycle's cultural context has been replicated by Henry Mayr-Harting.^[3]

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  The Healing of St Peter's mother-in-law

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  Healing of the demon-possessed

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  Dedication miniature

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  Healing of a man with a withered hand

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  Jesus and the woman taken in adultery

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  Raising of the son of the widow of Nain

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  Christ in Majesty

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  Baptism of Christ

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  Annunciation

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  Calming the storm

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