# Hitda Codex [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, German]() - Date: 1001-1050 - Technique: Manuscript \(Cod. 1640\), 290 x 218 mm ## Commentary Hitda Codex c. 1020 Manuscript \(Cod. 1640\), 290 x 218 mm Hessische Landesbibliothek, Darmstadt The Life of Christ constitutes the main subject illustrated in medieval codices. An exemplary model of the successful organization of text sequence and illustrative picture is the codex of the Abbes Hitda of Meschede, known as the Hitda Codex. It was produced around the year 1020 in an Ottonian scriptorium in Cologne. The picture shows a folio with The Annunciation. ## Related artworks - [Aachen Gospels]() - [Aachen Gospels]() - [Ada Gospels]() - [Allegory of the Sacraments]() - [Antoninus Florentinus: Chronicon]() - [Aratea]() - [Astronomical-computist collection]() - [Astronomicum caesareum]() - [Astronomicum caesareum]() - [Bamberg Apocalypse]() - [Bamberg Apocalypse]() - [Bamberg Apocalypse]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()