HOLLIS Primo (2026-11-14) returns only Latin and German witnesses: the critical edition 'Rabanus Maurus, In honorem Sanctae Crucis', Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 100 (Brepols, 2000), a 1973 Vienna facsimile, a 1847 Leipzig text, and German studies. The English-language material is art-historical (Hamburger, Diagramming Devotion, Chicago 2020) and descriptive, not a translation. No volume translating the cycle of figure-poems and their prose explanations was located in HOLLIS or in the Corpus Christianorum in Translation set.
Twenty-eight figure poems in which verse and prose are embedded in a grid of letters forming cross shapes, the most technically ambitious Latin poetry of the early Middle Ages. English readers meet it almost always through facsimile images and art-historical commentary rather than through its words.
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| archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Migne, Patrologia Latina, 1844-1880 printing) |
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| Romanesque and the Past : Retrospection in the Art and Architecture of Romanesque Europe | "Romanesque and the Past : Retrospection in the Art and Architecture of Romanesque Europe." Leeds, UK : Published for the British Archaeological Association by Maney Publishing, 2013. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990139513240203941 |
| Poetry of the Carolingian Renaissance | "Poetry of the Carolingian Renaissance." Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990012448490203941 |