Cistercian statutes

Description

Title: Cistercian statutes
Published / Created: [ca. 1200]
Publication Place: Spain
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment. Possibly produced at the Cistercian abbey of Fitero (between Pamplona and Tudela).
Description: In Latin.
Script: Copied by various hands in Iberian Praegothica.
The original sections (articles 1, 2, 7 and 8) have red headings and red decorative line-fillers; 1-line plain initials and numerous 2-line (sometimes 3- or 4-line) plain or flourished initials or litterae duplices intermingled. Many round initials such as C, D, O, Q are filled with a human face ("face initials"); in art. 7 some initials I are zoomorphic and take the shape of a fish (ff. 127r, 134r). Red and purple initials normally alternate. Art. 4 has red initials. The remaining articles are undecorated.
Lower edge of many leaves damaged, with loss of text. The final pages worn and smudged.
Binding: ca. 1800. Limp parchment with remains of two leather ties. On the spine the hand-written title "Charta charitatis, liber usuum et institut. Ordinis S. Bernardi. M.S." At the bottom of the spine a label with the handwritten modern number "1280".
Provenance: Purchased in May 1982 from Laurence Witten on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. i + 148 + i : 230 x 160 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Rules
Manuscripts, Medieval
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Cistercians
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Monasticism and religious orders
Subjects: Cistercians > Early works to 1800
Cistercians > Rules
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Monasticism and religious orders > Rules
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Cistercian Statutes. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.