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| Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 9: Hrabanus Maurus, Liber de Laudibus Sanctae Crucis| https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/it/list/one/bbb/0009| E-codices| [{Image src='https://www.austria-forum.org/cc/images/slim/by-sa.png' alt='CC BY-SA 4.0' align='center' link='https://www.austria-forum.org/cc/by-sa-40.html' target='_blank'}]| Datei:E-codices bbb-0009 011v medium.jpg
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| The author of these poems, Rabanus Maurus (784?-856), the Archbishop of Mainz, compiled an early encyclopaedia, wrote commentaries on the Bible, and devised a complicated system of coded poetry. Magnencij Rabani Mauri De Laudibus sancte Crucis opus begins with an introduction by the German humanist, writer, and theologian Jakob Wimpheling (dated 1501) and includes 30 full-page poems printed in red and black and combining woodcut and letterpress. The poems are followed by a transcript in ordinary type for the sake of clarity and a Declaratio explaining the whole arrangement. The encrypted poems are composed in a grid of 36 lines each containing 36 letters. Rabanus sometimes incorporated a figure within the grid, creating both a figurative and a literal picture poem. It continues a late classical tradition in its form: it consists of "carmina figurata" where figures were superimposed on the text so that new verses appear, and these verses have a new meaning. Gustav Mahler composed his 8th symphony around one of Rabanus’s poems. (Source: University Library Princeton.)Wimpheling was a contemporary of Johannes Reuchlin. There exists a letter written by Mutianus Rufus to Reuchlin in which the printer's achievement is praised in glowing terms; Reuchlin's cooperation and help in the production must have been considerable. (Source: H. Alberts in Johannes Reuchlin Festschrift, 1955, p. 208.)| Flickr : Magnencii Rabani Mauri De Laudibus Sancte Crucis opus. erudicione versu prosaque mirificum| Maurus Rabanus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856, Jakob Wimpheling, 1450-1528, Sebastian Brant, 1458-1521, Johann Reuchlin, 1455-1522, Thomas Anshelm; Center for Jewish History, NYC| [{Image src='https://www.austria-forum.org/cc/images/slim/publicdomain.png' alt='Public domain' align='center' link='https://www.austria-forum.org/cc/public-domain-10.html' target='_blank'}]| Datei:Magnencii Rabani Mauri De Laudibus Sancte Crucis opus. erudicione versu prosaque mirificum.jpg
| Hrabanus Maurus, von Alcuin empfohlen, übergibt sein Werk dem Erzbischof von Mainz, Otgar| Manuscript: Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, cod.652, fol. 2v (Fulda, 2nd quarter of the 9th century)| Fulda| [{Image src='https://www.austria-forum.org/cc/images/slim/publicdomain.png' alt='Public domain' align='center' link='https://www.austria-forum.org/cc/public-domain-10.html' target='_blank'}]| Datei:Raban-Maur Alcuin Otgar.jpg
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