[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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