Hitda-Codex
The Hitda Codex is considered a major work of the Cologne Ottonian book illumination.
History
The Gospel Book (since the secularization in Darmstadt, today manuscript 1640 in the University and State Library ) was made by Anton von Euw 1000 St. Walburga for the pin. Christoph Winterer dated 2010 Codex on the first five years after the 1000th However, this can not be protected by a writing examination or written sources. A - widely held - later emergence time (1020 or 1030/1035 ) is in contrast to a 2013 proposal made that the handwriting by Archbishop Gero of Cologne ( 969-976 ) was commissioned to create a legacy of his 969/70 in Jerusalem deceased mother Hidda meet. The name has the code of the abbess Hitda, which was perhaps a member of the noble house of the Count of Werl and related to the Ottonian and Burgundian royal house. Little is likely to identify with the ezzonischen Abbess Ida († 1060 ), the Cologne community of women of St. Mary in the Capitol.
In Darmstadt Hitda Codex devotes abbess " Hitda " in a full-page dedicatory Saint Walburga the gospel book, a well- positioned signed towards the end of the 11th century "treasure directory" mentioned further donations of Hitda or Ida to Meschede, including a portable golden statue of Mary, dresses and church equipment. A to the period around 1500 to dating Direction entry points to the handwriting of the women's community in the Sauerland. The Code was still in the 18th century in Meschede, and came from there at the beginning of the 19th century Wedinghausen and finally to Darmstadt.
The content and design
Large-sized Bible scenes dominate, focused on the main characters, in an expressive form language and unconventional color. Blue roofs and blue mountains, piled in colorful stripes backgrounds and objects that seem to come to life - in the art of pre-modern is this pathos coloristic style many questions, Rainer Warland characterizes the peculiar style of the magnificent manuscript.
The most famous image is likely the storm on the sea be an art postcard motif popular.
Who deals with the entire cycle of paintings, encounters a painting theologians of the Middle Ages, the incarnate Son of God in all available radicalism of the image characterized: "After the total evaluation of the Hitda -Evangeliars the current viewer provides an impressive theological testimony provided which leads him in mind, what is the specific feature of the Christian incarnation of faith. "