Profession ritual and Benedictine rule for nuns : in Latin and Flemish

Item Information

Title:
Profession ritual and Benedictine rule for nuns : in Latin and Flemish
Description:
Rule and profession ritual for Benedictine nuns.
Date:
[1500–1599]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Sheet music
Genre:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Netherlands
Manuscripts, Medieval--Netherlands
humanistic scripts
Booksellers' copies
Shelf marks
Inscriptions
Insertions (Provenance)
Calf bindings
Wooden boards
Clasps
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts
Subjects:
Monastic and religious life--Rules and practice--Early works to 1800
Monastic and religious life of women--Manuscripts--Early works to 1800
Benedictines--Liturgy--Early works to 1800
Benedictines--Flanders
Benedictines--Netherlands--Early works to 1800
Benedictines--Liturgy--Manuscripts--Early works to 1800
Places:
Flanders (former primary political entity)
Extent:
144 leaves : paper, ill. ; 139 x 95 (102 x 67) mm bound to 15 cm, in box 18 cm
Permalink:
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Place of origin:
[Flanders]
Language:
Latin
Dutch
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1: blank (with engraving: Christ calls Simon and Andrew).
2. fol. 2-24: Profession ritual: "Dit id die ordinantie end maniere hoemen een noniscie tot ter profession ontfanckt/ Inden eersten alsmen.../...Et que parate./ ghelnekic is die bruyt christi."
3. fol. 24v : (with engraving: Christ heals the blind man.)
4. fol. 25: blank.
5. fol. 25v : (with medallion engraving: Payment of the temple tax (Matt. 17:26))
6. fol. 26-143: Benedictine rule, for nuns:
7. fol. 26-139: Benedictine rule: "Hier beghint den reghel van onsen heylighen vader ende Abt sanctus Benedictus dat Prologhe/ Oone hoort na dyns meesters gheboden.../...Benedictinen daer in persenereren. Amen.
8. fol. 139-143: Chapter headings: "Hier beghient die tafele der regulen.../...Van der maniere der monniken leenen. Dat i capit..../...soe vuel duysent heklighen./ Amen. finis veniet.
9. fol. 143v: Profession questions: "Dese naegheschrenen poynten salmen vraghen den ghenen diemen ter profession ontsanghen sal/ Ost die persoen.../...niet huelpen en mach."
10. fol. 144-146 : Profession ritual for "Donatinnen" (added s. XVIex): "Die ordinantie der proffessie van die Donatinnen./ In den eersten alsmen.../...dat solven doen sal. Amen.
11. fol. 146: with engraving: Christ raises Jairus's daughter).
12. fol. 146v: Latin prayer, 16th-century, laid on.
13. fol. 147: (with medallion engraving : Christ as the Good Shepherd).
14. fol. 147v: blank.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Flanders in the sixteenth century.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Nineteenth-century shelfmark 4452 on paper label affixed to front cover. 19th- and 20th-century dealers' notes in pencil inside front cover.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Unknown.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: (fol. 3) ...sal beghinnen met gheboeck...
Collation: Parchment, fol. i + 144 + ii ; 1-18⁸ ; modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each recto, numbers flyleaves as well so reaches 147 instead of 144.
Layout: 1 column, 19 lines. Bounding and ruling lines in light plummet. Rhythmic mensural notation on a 4-line black staff.
Script: Written in a Flemish humanistic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: 2-line red initials with white space throughout, some in red and black; later (17th-century) medallion engravings pasted to blanks on fol. 1, 24v, 25v, 146, 147.
Binding: Original blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, IHS/ Crucifixion gilt-stamped medallion center front and back, bronze clasps and catches intact, paper pastedown with conjugate flyleaf at front and back, rebacked, spine liners from s. XIV/XV manuscript at front at back. Spine liners from 14th- and 15th-century manuscript at back.
Notes (language):
In Latin and Flemish.
Identifier:
06_01_018734
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.255
Barcode:
39999090789601