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MS. Add. B. 62

Summary Catalogue no.: 29181

Contents

Cistercian Ordinances to 1288, with additions to 1301

Including:

(fol. 5)
Carta Caritatis
(fol. 9)
Rubric: Ordinatio Clementis pape iiii super reformatione ordinis
(fol. 67v)
Colophon: Expliciunt Diffiniciones capituli generalis conpilate mºccºlxxxviii

In several hands. Fols. 68–80v contain additions from 1289 to 1301 written in more cursive hands than those of the preceding text, each addition being dated at the top of the page.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 80 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 180 × 133 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135–40 × 95–102 mm.

Layout

1 col, 27 lines.

Fols. 68–80: 15–17 lines.

Decoration

Coloured initials.

Rubrics.

Binding

Blind-stamped leather, late 16th century, rebacked.

History

Origin: 1288–1300 ; Italian

Provenance and Acquisition

Cistercian abbey of Chiaravalle de Bagnolo, dioc. Milan: 'Sum Monasterii Clareuallis', fol. 1, 17th cent.

Fol. iii: 'Nota che questo libro delle Diffinitioni dell'Ordine e del Monastero di Chiaraualle di Milano; il quale deuo restituire al prossimi Capitolo 1641'.

Bought at the William Bragge sale, Nov. 1880 (lot 1363) for £3.

Record Sources

Adapted (2018) from A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts; and the Summary Catalogue (1905).
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 5, p. 579

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.