Abbess Hildegard of Bingen

German artist, writer, musician, mystic, philosopher, and naturalist | 1098—1179

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Guda

German illuminator | Active c. 1150

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Herrad von Landsberg

German writer and illuminator(?) | Active 1160–70; died 1195

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Blanche of Castile

Queen of France

Spanish patron | Palencia, 1188––Paris, 1252

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Claricia

German illuminator | Active 12th century

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Gisela of Kerzenbroeck 

German illuminator | died 1300

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Bourgot Le Noir

French illuminator | active mid-14th century

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