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Dear all,
A private collector of manuscripts has send me some digital photos
taken from some of the pages in a new acquisition. It is obviously
the rules of one of the monastic orders, but which one?
It is full of vivid details from everyday life (including how to
establish a prison inside the monastery!), and has certainly
been published. This is fascinating reading, but way outside my
own field of research.
Can anybody please help with the identification? Script seems to
be Italian 15th cent.
The first and last leaves of the manuscript are missing, including
any initial or final rubrics which might have given the full title.
Thank you in advance,
Erik Drigsdahl
Here are some extracts from the text as shown on the pictures, first
a section about novices:
1.jpg /
xij. De locis in quibus conversi tenent silencium.
xiij. De refectione conversorum et versu.
xiiij. De cibo conversorum et mixto.
xv. De pellibus silvestribus.
xvj. De horis conversorum.
xvij. De conversis ubi minuantur et nolis.
xviij. De non comedendo aut bidendo extra refectoria.
xix. De conversis ad abbatiam venientibus.
xx. De vestitu conversorum.
xxj. De botis et lectis conversorum.
xxij. De conversis ne capita lauent ad inuicem.
xxxiij. De conversis qui sunt in itinere.
De conversis qualiter recipiantur. i.
Quando aliqui in conversos recipi debent in capitulo monachorum primo
recipiantur deinde in capitulo conversorum. Quod hac de causa qualibet die
congregari potest. Deputetur autem eis magister idoneus . ad mores
instruendos et docendum ordinem. Novicius conversus si pannos sibi emerit
tales emat quales habemus. Mantellum autem non emat. //
/ De conversis ne discatur litteras .ij.
Nullus habeat librum nec discat aliquid nisi tantum. Pater noster, et Credo
in deum, Miserere mei deus, Ave maria, que debere dici ab eis statutum est
infra. Et hoc non littera sed cor detenus.
De professione conversorum. iij.
Post annum veniat novicius in capitulum monachorum, ubi in primis
prostratus misericordiam petat, et surgens ad imperium abbatis, cum
interrogatus spoponderit de stabilitate sua dicat abbas : Det tibi deus
perseverenciam. Et respondeant omnes: Amen. Et relicta omni proprietate
fatiat professionem hoc modo. Veniens ante abbatem flectat genua, et iungat
manus suas ponensque eas inter manus abbatis, promittens ei obedientiam de
bono usque ad mortem. Que respondeat abbas deus det tibi vitam eternam, et
iterum respondeatur omnes amen. Tunc osculato abbate discedant. Et sciendum
quod ab illo die quo petitionem suam fecit in capitulo monachorum // ....
[On the penance of committing homicide]
3.jpg /Siquis de ordine nostro homicidia perpetraverit si personas nostri
occiderint teneantur sub artissima custodia, et districtissima pena usque
ad mortem. Si autem secularem occiderint, et sine periculo in domo sua non
poterunt retineri, ad remotam domum emittantur, penitencie conspiratorum
sub iacentes nunquam de cetero reversuri. Si vero mutilaverunt, aut alio
modo quemque percusserint, secundum qualitatem culpe mensura correptionis
extendatur.
De fortilgis .ix.
Qui convictus fuerit aut confessus publice de sortilegio quod fecerit . aut
fieri permissit . si abbas fuerit prior aut subprior deponatur. Si monachus
vel conversus .vi. diebus sit in leui culpa duobus eorum in pane et aqua .
et per annum preter quam in pascha vel nisi egerit in extremis . ab altari
suspensus . et omnium ultimus habeatur.
De donis et litteris .x.
De donis munuscl'is? (munusceleris?) litteris et eulogiis non dandum non
recipiendum //
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Mag.art. Erik Drigsdahl CHD Center for Haandskriftstudier i Danmark
Kapelvej 25B 3.tv Phone: +45 +35 37 20 47
DK-2200 Copenhagen N Email: <[log in to unmask]>
DENMARK http://www.chd.dk
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