(Q6196)
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La reigle et status des monasteres de vierges de lordre Sainct Benoist reformees au diocese de Paris /
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Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino
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Ponchier, Étienne, 1446-1524
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Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Abbey : Paris, France)
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Benedictine monasteries--France--Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Kansas--Lawrence
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Monasticism and religious orders--Rules--Early works to 1800
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[between 1506-1525]
16. century
1506Gregorian
1525Gregorian
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Extent: 152 leaves : parchment, illuminations ; 133 x 91 (91 x 58) mm bound to 145 x 93 mm +
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Title from opening rubric of the table of contents on folio 8v: "Sensuit la table de la reigle et status des monasteres de vierges de lordre Sainct Benoist reformees au diocese de Paris distinguee par chappitres."
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Manuscript codex
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Collation: ii (parchment, i is pastedown) + 152 (parchment) + iv (parchment, iv is pastedown): 1-19⁸.
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Foliation: Three sets of modern foliation in pencil: in lower right corner (4-10), beginning with folio 3; in upper right corner (11-138), beginning with folio 10; at center in the lower margin (1-152). The description follows the foliation at center in the lower margin.
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Catchwords: Horizontal catchwords in lower right corner on folios 8v, 72v, 80v, 104v, 112v, 136v, 144v.
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Layout: Written in 23 long lines, below top line. Ruled in red ink, with full-length vertical and horizontal bounding lines. Pricking marks visible on outer margins of most leaves.
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Script: Written by a single hand in Bâtarde.
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Decoration: 4-line boxed initial P in gold on red and blue background; 3-line boxed initial E in blue and white with a flower on gold background; 1- to 2-line boxed initials in gold on alternating red and blue background at the beginning of chapters; paragraph marks in gold on alternating red and blue background; line fillers in gold on alternating red and blue background; sentence initials...
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Binding: Early modern. Bound in full leather over thin wooden boards. Blind- and gold-tooling on both covers; blind-tooling on spine. Sewn on four sewing supports. All three edges gilded. Endbands in blue and cream. Binding is very worn and the front cover seems to have been completely detached and repaired.
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Accompanying materials: A detached paper slip (93 x73 mm) that contains a list of five items in French in an early modern hand.
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Origin: Probably written in Paris, France in the first quarter of the sixteenth century, after 1506.
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Former shelfmark: MS X18
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Shelfmark: Lawrence, University of Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, MS A18
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In good condition. Minor imperfections on parchment. Interlinear additions in red (folios 151r-152v), adapting the Latin prayers into singular feminine forms.
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La reigle et status des monasteres de vierges in this manuscript includes the "Status" in 92 chapters preceded by a prologue (folios 12v-119v) and followed by "Les ordonnances pour les freres" in 16 chapters, which is also preceded by a prologue (folios 119v-138r). To these are appended the copies of the following: the approbation and ratification of the Status signed on May 5, 1506 by...
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The manuscript was owned in the sixteenth century by a Sister Blessed Hope, possibly from the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris, France according to two ownership inscriptions in ink, possibly by the same hand: on the upper part of the recto of the front flyleaf "Soror Spes Benedicta a Sancto Germano" and in the lower margin of folio 1r "E[glise?] de St Germain." Early modern (late...
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5 September 2023
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5 September 2023
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