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Hi all,

A friend sent me this fragment about monk's dress as he knows I am
interested in medieval clerical costume. He has more text than this, but
does not know where he got it from. Does anybody on the list know? And if
there is an English or other translation in a modern language of said book?

Many thanks,

Henk


Liber tramitis aevi Odilonis Abbatis
 
Vestitus fratrum mensuram hanc serva tuorum
(de) vestimentis fratrum mittit sanctus Benedictus in providentia abbatis,
ut sint mensurata. Qualis autem sit illa mensura secundum patrum
diffinitionem, quantum possumus indagamus: Cuculla quae nostro singulariter
convenit ordini quod vestimentum antiquitus vocabatur colobium, id  est
tunica sine manicis, tantum debet habere latitudinis, ut ambobus
convenienter abtetur cubitis, longitudinis vero tantum antea, quod ad collum
pedis usque pertingat, et sit apta corpori, ut sit ex omni parte rotunda.
 
Capellum ipsius praeter lymbum integrum virilis pedis ex omni parte
quadratam debet continere mensuram. Apertura superior habeat cubitum usque
ad pollicis summum, inferior cubitum integrum et trium digitorum in ante
appareat latitudo cuculle capitio.


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