A VALIANT WOMAN
by Olga Hartley
In the time of Gregory VII (1020-1085 AD) the work of the nun Diemudis of the double monastery of Wessobrunn, Bavaria, is worth recording. Here is a list of the works she copied:
- A Missal with the Gradual and Sequences.
- Another Missal with the Gradual and Sequences (given to the Bishop of
Leves).
- Another Missal with the Epistles, Gospels and Sequences.
- Another Missal with the Epistles, Gospels, Sequences and the entire
Baptismal Service.
- Another Missal with the Epistles and Gospels.
- A Book of Offices.
- Another Book of Offices with the Baptismal Services (given to the Bishop
of Augsburg).
- A Book with the Gospels and Lessons.
- A Book with the Epistles.
- Another Book with the Gospels.
- A Bible in two volumes.
- A Bible in three volumes.
- St Gregory ad regaredum.
- St Gregory on Ezekiel.
- Sermons and Homilies of Certain Ancient Doctors (3 vols.).
- Origen on the Old Testament.
- Origen on the Canticles.
- St Augustine on the Psalms (3 vols.).
- St Augustine on the Gospels and on the first Epistle of St. John (2
vols).
- St Augustine's Epistles to the No. of LXXV.
- St Augustine's Treatises.
- St Jerome's Epistles to the No. of CLXIV.
- The Tripartite History of Cassiodorus.
- The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius.
- Fifty Sermons of St Augustine.
- The Life of St Silvester.
- St Jerome against Vigilartus.
- St Jerome De Consolatione Mortuorum.
- The Life of St Blasius.
- The Life of John the Almoner, Patriarch of Alexandria in the seventh
century.
- Paschasius on the Body and Blood of Christ.
- The conflict of Lanfranc and Berangarius.
- The Martyrdom of St Dionysius.
- The Life of St Adrian.
- St Jerome De Hebraicis Questionibus.
- St Augustine's Confessions.
- Canons.
- Gloria per A.B.C. Composita.
—Olga Hartley, Women and the Catholic Church
From "Annals Australia," April-May 1994
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