Sensuit une bonne doctrine pour ensengnner des religieuse

Published/Created:

Southern Netherlands,
[between 1450 and 1500]

Physical Description:

ff. ii + 24 + ii : paper ; 135 x 95 mm.

Materials:

paper

Related Links:

https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/MS879.pdf

Notes:

Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens.
Watermark: Crowned Lily, var. Briquet 7252 (mostly 1468-1477).
Written in campo aperto in one column, 20-23 lines.
Headings and stroking of majuscules in red.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Blue mottled paper over cardboard.

Abstract:

Manuscript on paper containing 1) Instructions for a nun, addressed as "ma devote fille", by a priest, containing extensive Latin quotations, followed by their French translations, from the Bible, St. Augustine, St. Bernard, Cesarius of Arles, St. Gregory the Great, Isidore of Seville, St. Jerome, St. John Chrysostom, Macrobius, Origen, Richard of St. Victor ("ung docteur nommé Richart"), Seneca, Thomas Aquinas. 2) The Passion according to the Gospel of St. John, as read in the office of Good Friday (Jn. 18:1-40; 19:1-42), to be read when a nun is dying, in French translation.

Variant Titles:

Instructions for a nun and the Passion according to St. John

Topics:

Didactic literature, French
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Women--Religious life

Language:

French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)

Genre:

Manuscripts

Format:

Text

Content Type:

Archives or Manuscripts

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Related Exhibit or Resource:

A Book of Her Own

Call Number:

Beinecke MS 879

Orbis Record:

9883926

Orbis Barcode:

39002104688321

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

11005545

Citation:

Instructions for a nun and the Passion according to St. John. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Extent of digitization:

Complete work digitized.

OID:

2013993

PID:

digcoll:3383534