{"product_id":"the-cosmic-egg-and-other-writings-by-hildegard-of-bingen-with-a-sleeve-by-pegah-farahmand","title":"The Cosmic Egg and Other Writings by Hildegard of Bingen with a Sleeve by Pegah Farahmand","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cosmic Egg and Other Writings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby Hildegard of Bingen\u003cbr\u003eTranslated into English by Roberto Salazar Morales\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Ollie Cowley\u003cbr\u003eEdited by Madeleine Willis\u003cbr\u003eChosen by Pegah Farahmand, with her sleeve \u003cem\u003eNature’s Games\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEach book has been hand-numbered.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbbess, composer, healer and visionary, Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) was three years old when she had her first vision. Over her life she wrote theology, music, medicine and natural philosophy, and invented a language of her own, the \u003cem\u003elingua ignota\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was chosen by Pegah Farahmand, her sleeve was inspired by a trip to Montserrat, “where the strange, phallic formations of the mountain range rise around a Benedictine monastery founded in 1025”. There she found “two forms of the sacred: one constructed through religion and ritual, the other embedded in the landscape”. She began to think about “how pilgrimage has continued into contemporary culture—its secular evolution”. Drawing on Victor Turner’s “betwixt and between”, the Sufi thought she grew up with, and the clay vessels of Omar Khayyam’s \u003cem\u003eRubāʿiyāt\u003c\/em\u003e, her works \u003cem\u003eIron Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCaul\u003c\/em\u003e answer Hildegard’s cosmic egg.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition gathers five of Hildegard’s writings in a new English translation from the medieval Latin by Roberto Salazar Morales: her letter to Bernard of Clairvaux, \u003cem\u003eThe Action of the Will\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Cosmic Egg\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Iron Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Vision of Love\u003c\/em\u003e. Illuminations from the \u003cem\u003eScivias\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eBook of Divine Works\u003c\/em\u003e accompany the texts. Ollie Cowley’s introduction follows Hildegard’s green thread from the monastery at Disibodenberg to her letters to popes and emperors, and into the thousand nouns of her unknown language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of 400 copies · Design by Maria Candanoza · Printed in the Czech Republic · Sendb00ks, London 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReleased on 21 November 2026 in Paris, with a reading by Pegah Farahmand.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sendb00ks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60400427630937,"sku":null,"price":26.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0106\/3665\/6704\/files\/Screenshot2026-11-06at21.55.02.png?v=1794002113","url":"https:\/\/sendb00ks.com\/products\/the-cosmic-egg-and-other-writings-by-hildegard-of-bingen-with-a-sleeve-by-pegah-farahmand","provider":"Sendb00ks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}