The observances in use at the Augustinian priory of S. Giles and S. Andrew at Barnwell, Cambridgeshire / edited with a translation and glossary by John Willis Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

St. Giles and St. Andrew's priory, Barnwell, Eng. (Cambridgeshire)

Contributor:

Clark, John Willis, 1833-1910.

Yarnall Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

British Library.

Standardized Title:

Liber memorandorum ecclesie de Bernewelle. Book 8. English & Latin

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

St. Giles and St. Andrew's Priory (Barnwell, England).

Augustinians--Spiritual life--Early works to 1800.

Augustinians.

Monastic and religious life--Early works to 1800.

Monastic and religious life.

Spiritual life.

Physical Description:

civ, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Macmillan and Bowes, 1897.

Contents:

Introduction: I. The manuscript. II. History and description of Barnwell priory. III. Constitution of the house. IV. A monastic day. V. The structure of the hours. VI. The rule; appendix of Premonstratensian statutes.

The rule of St. Augustine.

The second rule.

Text of the observances.

Notes:

"Three hundred copies printed."

Edited from the eighth book of the "Liber memorandorum ecclesie de Bernewelle," a ms. volume in the British museum (Ms. Harl. 3601) usually referred to as "The Barnwell cartulary" or "The Barnwell register," the original of which was composed in 1295-96. The "Observances" are preceded by the "Rule of St. Augustine" edited from Ms. Harl. 2939, and by the "Second Rule" (Augustini Opera omnia, Paris, 1836 I).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

3121809