[Rule]
- Description
- Augustinian rule, in six chapters, including a translation of each rule into French.
- Creator
- Augustinians
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- illuminations (paintings)
- Manuscripts, French
- Manuscripts, Latin
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
- Date
- 1400
- Language
- Latin
- French
- Subject
- Monasticism and religious orders -- Rules
- Extent
- 28 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 162 x 118 (125 x 80) mm bound to 167 x 121 mm
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Incipit regula Sancti Augustini (f. 1r).
- Foliation: Parchment, iii (18th-century paper) + 28 + vii (18th-century paper); [1-28]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
- Layout: Written in 21 long lines; ruled in ink.
- Script: Written in a Gothic book script by a single hand. Marginal notes and corrections in other, later hands, some notations have been trimmed.
- Decoration: Illuminated initial A in gold, green, and pink (f. 1r); 2-line initials colored in green, blue, and pink throughout; red ink used for translations.
- Binding: 18th-century calf. Spine is cracked along front cover, which is nearly detached.
- Origin: Written in northeast France in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Latin, with French translation.
- Related Work: Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Regula.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p34g4k
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 687
- Provenance
- Formerly owned by M. Swartzwelder, January 1, 1859, Pittsburgh (flyleaf, iii recto).
- Sold by William H. Allen, Philadelphia, 1950.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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