Consuetudines Cistercienses

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Description

Title
Consuetudines Cistercienses
Published / Created
1314 and [1475-1499]
Publication Place
Boulbonne, France
Abstract

Manuscript on parchment of Cistercian statutes. In two sections, of the early fourteenth and late fifteenth century respectively. The manuscript is damaged by moisture, badly affecting parts of the text and the colours of the decoration

Description
In Latin.
Script: first section copied by a single hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Formata, with an addition written in Gothic documentary script. Second section copied by a single hand in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Bastarda) with unlooped d, and an addition in Gothica Cursiva Currens.
First section: yellow heightening of majuscules. Red headings. Alternately red and blue 2-line flourished initials, with blue and red penwork respectively extending into the left margin. Some initials and majuscules are inscribed with human faces. On f. 1r the text is framed by a simple blue and red border. The opening letters of the acrostical verses in the second section have been retraced in red ink.
Second section: red headings and chapter numbers, but otherwise no decoration.
Binding: Quarter binding s. XX: brown morocco spine and oak boards. Spine with four raised bands and gold-tooled morocco title label mounted on a piece of parchment (of the previous binding?) with the inscription: “OFFICIA ECCLESIASTICA”. On the front board a bronze bas-relief of Christ on the Cross (Russia, s. XVIII?) has been mounted.
Provenance
On f. 154v the s. XV ownership inscription of the Cistercian abbey of Boulbonne (Haute-Garonne), for which (and probably where, at least for the first section) the manuscript was written in two phases and where Pope Benedict XII had been a monk: “Iste liber est monasterii Beate Marie de Bolbona” (Gothica Cursiva). Notes in Swedish s. XIX and XX on the flyleaves. On the second front flyleaf recto a large painting s. XIX (?) containing a painter's palette and the text “Ex libris Guthi of Berglund” on a blue background in a flowery border. On the rear flyleaf verso the note “Ex Amalthaea Bosbona (?)” and a rectangular stamp with inscription “Börje Israelsons Bibliotek”. Purchased from Les Enluminures Ltd., Chicago, Paris, on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent
ff. 182 : 165 x 120 mm.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Beinecke MS 966
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Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Manuscripts, Medieval France 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material
parchment ;
Resource Type
unspecified
Subject (Geographic)
Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name)
Abbaye de Boulbonne.
Cistercians.
Subject (Topic)
Manuscripts, Medieval
Taxation
Subjects
Abbaye de Boulbonne
Cistercians
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Taxation
France > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation
Consuetudines Cistercienses. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Catalog Record
9892090
Object ID (OID)
10622035

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