Wiesbaden Codex

The format was designed by her first secretary, Volmar, and was edited heavily by Guibert of Gembloux; nonetheless, she apparently authorized the changes.

The nuns of Rupertsberg fled with the codex to Eibingen when Swedish troops looted the monastery during the Thirty Years War.

It survived the Dresden firebombing inside a bank vault, and unlike another work by Bingen stored there, the Scivias, was not looted.

Using Margarete's reputation as a scholar and work on the Monumenta Germaniae Historica she was able to photograph the codex and have it delivered by Caroline Walsh, the wife of an American soldier, to Eibingen, where they then switched it with a book of similar dimensions and weight.

[5] After the Soviets realized the switch in 1950, a deal was struck where in exchange for other rare books being sent to Dresden, Wiesbaden was able to keep the codex.