Frontispiece of Scivias, showing Hildegard receiving a vision, dictating, and sketching on a wax tablet.Scivias is an illustrated work by Hildegard, the title coming from the Latin phrase “Sci vias Domini”(“Know the Ways of the Lord”). Scivias was completed in 1152, describing 26 religious visions Hildegard experienced, the first of three works she wrote describing her visions.