Looking for an old book

Looking for an English translation of Saint Hildegard of Bingen's Causae et Curae... anyone have a .pdf or know where I can buy one?

Tantalizing...




There's a Hildegard society on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/hildegardsociety/.

Judson,

I'm not finding any digital archive of the english translation online. I did check at work and see that a number of libraries carry copies of the book as an english translation and are listed on WorldCat. Call your public library and ask them to get one for you from another library. It is in the digital commons so you can make as many copies as you want.

Thanks y'all.... hopefully I'll find one!

There are a lot of Hildegard's books available here, and the one you are looking for might be compiled in one of them:

https://b-ok.cc/s/Hildegard%20of%20Bingen

Note that some books on that link may be under copyright in your region. Any original works by Hildegard will be officially in the public domain everywhere in the world, but some translations, or the editorial matter, may not be in the public domain in your region. It's safe to assume that if the translation is pre 1925, it is in the public domain in the US. If the author/translator died more than 75 years before the present year, it is very likely in the public domain in the US, unless laws have changed since this was posted.

At the very least, that list of books will give you a sense of editions of her work that are out there, and if you want to get hard copies, try Abe Books.

Thanks!

I couldn’t find any online translations, so I went ahead and took a screenshot of a page 2 & 134 from this online Latin version and uploaded them as images to this online OCR (Optical Character Recognition), resulting in the text below. I then copied that into Google translate Latin to English and, voila.you could skip the image to OCR text by copying the underlaying text directly from the linked book and paste that directly into the translate page, but then you get the line numbers. Having a pdf version of the book in Latin would allow for a bulk OCR and translate in some software such as Acrobat or Word I bet.  Google translate also allows uploads of a wide variety of documents. Interesting stuff.

2 HILDEGARDIS
non habuit. Nam nec supra se summitatem nec subtus se extremitatem habuit, quae illum sustinere posset, ne caderet. Cnm enim ille ad nihilum se extendit, inceptio extensionis eius malum produxit, et mox malum hoc abs-5 que claritate et absque luce in semet ipso per zelnm dei exarsit, ut rota se circnmferens et circumvolvens, et igni-tas tenebras in se ostendit. Et sic malum a bono decli-navit, nec bonnm tetigit malum nec malum bonum. Deus autem integer ut rota permansit et pater in bonitate, qnia io paternitas ipsius bonitate ipsius plena est, et ita iustis-sima et benignissima et firmissima atque fortissima est paternitas, et de hac mensura sicnt rota ponitur. Nunc alicubi rota est et ipsa alicuius rei plena est. Quod si rota illa nihil aliud praeter exteriorem circulum haberet, vacua 15 foret. Et si forte alienus superveniret et ibi operari vellet, hoc esse non posset; nam in rota una duo fabri res snas constitnere non possunt. 0 homo, aspice homineml Homo enim caelum et terram atque alias factnras in se habet et forma una est, et in .ipso omnia latent. 20 De paternitate. Sic paternitas est quomodo circulus rotae, paternitas est plenitudo rotae. Deitas est in ipsa, et ex ipsa sunt omnia, et praeter eam creator non est. Lucifer autem integer non est, sed in dispersione divisus est, cum esse voluit, quod esse non debuit. Cum enim 25 deus mundum fecit, in antiquo consilio habuit, qnod homo fieri voluit. De animae cre,atione. Et cum lucem fecit, quae vo-latilis erat et quae ubiqne volare potuit, in eodem consilio suo habnit, quod spiritali vitae, quae spiraculum vitae est, 90 molem corporalem, id est elatam formam de limo terrae daret, quae nec volaret nec flaret et quae prae impossi-bilitate sua se levare non posset, et ut ideo sic ligata esset, quatinus ad deum acutius aspiceret. Unde ligaturam istam antiquus serpens odio habuit, qnia, quamvis homo 35 corpore gravis esset, se tamen ad deum in rationalitate erigeret. De elementis et firmamento. Et elementa mundi deus

2 Hildegard
did not have. In fact, never had more than himself with the tip of the end of the underneath him did not, he could not bear them which makes it present, keep him from falling. As, indeed, has a good for nothing, to which it extends, is starting to of extension, though he brought with him, and, subsequently, this evil is from-5 which is clarity and without the light of against himself, and it was through the Zelnis of God tumult he has kindled, like the wheel itself circnmferens, and round it, and with fire-tas darkness, He reveals Himself. And so the good from the bad bend-governed, not Bonnm touched evil and evil good. He remained, however, and the father of a whole number such as the wheel of the goodness of God, that a yo is full of the goodness of the paternity of the same, and is a strong and firm will, with great kindness, and it is so of the righteous-and rate the paternity, the wheel is placed, and out of this measure, the sicnt. Now somewhere wheel itself is something to be complete. But if you would have the circle of the wheel that is nothing other besides the external one, for the empty 15 has been described. A stranger to come their way, and he wanted to work there, And if by chance, this would be impossible; For a single wheel, two makers are snas can not be constituted. 0 man, pay attention to: for the sky and the earth, and in some, factnras homineml in the man is that power is the form of a single one, of all things, and in the tokens that are not visible. Of the 20 paternity. So how paternity circle wheels, paternity is an abundance of wheels. The Deity is at the image, and receive from it are all things, and in addition to the Creator is not the. Morning Star is not perfect, but the dispersion was divided when it decided that it does not owe. With 25 of the world did in the old design had wished to become wanted. The soul increased, dings. And when he made light, is what is called to-Latil was, and the things that ubique to fly could, in the same counsel: and they habuit, that the spiritual life, which there is the breath of life, from, 90 the mass of the body, that is, to have lifted up the form from the slime of the earth to give us, which can neither fly nor it is blowing, and the they lend themselves to that more than any lift up of an impossible-bilitate not be avoided, and that it would be in order, therefore, should be bound, so that for a god, and more piercing than looked at him. Hence tied to that old serpent hated them, because they, although body weight was 35, yet the gods in rationality before. The elements and support. The elements of the

134 HILDEGARDIS
sanguine habundat, tunc propter halitum, quem per nares in se trahit et emittit, sanguis in naribns aditum erup-tionis facilius invenit quam in alio loco corporis, ita quod venae cerebri et aliae venae, quae ibi vicinae sunt, ob ni-s miam superfluitatem sanguinis ibi rumpuntur et effiuunt. Quidam etiam homines sunt, in quibus sang-ais super-habundat, ita quod de superfluitate eius interdum in spissitudinem et in nigredinem vertitnr. Sed cum isti interius bonas et sanas vires habent, hae superfluum et io superhabundantem sanguinem in naribus eiciunt, ita qnod de hac effusione cerebrum eorum purgatur et visus acuitur atque vires ipsorum in eis ad sanitatem reducuntur. Sed alii homines sunt, quorum sangninem magnae febres et magnus ardor, qui in ipsis est, interdum ita movent, ut vinum, 1.5 quod in utre movetur, et sic sanguinem in naribus edu-cunt. Et de hac sanguinis effusione cerebrum aliquantum evacuatur et oculi caligant- et vires in homine illo de-bilitantur. De coryza. Cum cerebrum hominis sanum et purum 20 aliquando est, tu.nc etiam interdum turbines aeris et eete-rorum elementorum ad cerebrum exsurgunt, qui diversos humores in ipsum trahunt et ab eo extrahunt et nebu-losum fumum in via narium et gatturis eius parant, ita quod ibi nocivus livor contrahitur ut fumus nebulosao aquae. Et livor iste ibi etiam contrahit inSrmitatem de-bilium humorum, ita quod ibi cum dolore per nares et per guttur expurgantur, quemadmodnm ulcera, quae iam matura sunt, per ruptiones suas livores, qui in ipsis sunt, emittunt, et sicut etiam nullus cibus coqui potest, quin 30 sordes, quae in eo sunt, per spumam purgationis eiciat. Et sic facit anima in corpore hominis, cum oranes humores corporis in oculis, in auribus, in naribus, in ore et in digestione secundum naturam suam per ignem animae excoquuntur, ut cibus igne excoquitur, cum spumam eicit. 35 Curn autem interdum bomo novum et incognitum cibum comedit et novum et incognitum vinum aut alium novnm potum bibit, tanc de novis humoribus illis alii humores

134 HILDEGARDIS
the blood flows down, at that time, because of the breath, which escape through the nostrils will be better, and just sent out its blood is in their naribns an approach by the volcano-tion more easily found than in any other part of the body, so that the blood vessels of the brain, and many other veins, called there the neighbor cities of it are, on account of NI-S Miami too much of it of blood there is, the skins and the effiuunt. Some of the people are saying where Sang-over-abundance, so that an excess of protein in the thickness of the black vertitnr. But when, by their good qualities, and the inside of the sound energy both of these are a waste of the blood in his nose, they take them out, and I superhabundanter, is sharpened by the sight of so qnod of the active and passive powers in this pouring out of the brain, these are left for them to be purified, and their health can be reduced. But other men are, and the great are the ardor of their blood high fevers, which were in them is, and sometimes so that they move, so that the wine, that they are in a bottle of 1.5 is moved, and in this way the blood in the nose of their edu-tain people. But this shedding of blood, brain and eye caligant- fading somewhat, and that the strength in human-bilitantur. The catarrh. At any time when the brain of a man is healthy, and pure, 20, is the position of the elements tu.nc to the brain, sometimes even to the whirlwinds of the air and of eete-they come forth, and who represent the various humors of the extract him from the things unto himself; by him, and drag in the way of the nose and the smoke of the cloud: gatturis-losum preparing for his, so the blueness of a is contracted, so that the smoke of which was there very nature harmful nebulosao of water. Welts that there is a contract inSrmitatem of īnsatiābilis fluids so that there was pain in the nose and palate cleansing process, quemadmodnm ulcers, which is already ripe for the ruptiones their spots, that is in them, they send out as no fuel to cook can not, without 30 misconduct, and the things that therein are, by means of a chip of his cleansing he will send forth. Thus a man's life in the body, with the body fluids oranes eyes, the ears, the nose, the mouth and the digestion of the naturally fused by means of a fire that burns fuel fire with foam drives. 35 Curn but sometimes shun the new and unknown food we eat and the new, unknown wine or other beverage drinks, Novum, tance of these new fluids and other fluids

Yeah... it is pretty hard to translate Latin literally, word for word and have anything that makes sense!  Latin depends on context and inflection.  If I can find a German version, that would probably work a lot better.  I'll give it a shot - thanks!