Registrum ordinis Cysterciensis.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Cistercians.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Liturgy--Calendar--Early works to 1800.

Catholic Church.

Monasticism and religious orders--Rules.

Monasticism and religious orders.

Divine office.

Zodiac.

Liturgics.

Genre:

devotional calendars

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by B. Rosenthal, 1959.

Physical Description:

139 leaves : parchment, paper ; 165 x 122 (131 x 187) mm bound to 185 x 128 mm

Place of Publication:

[Germany], [between 1400 and 1699]

Summary:

Calendar, verses on the psalms, and order of refectory reading (15th century), with Directorium divini officii secundum usum Cisterciensium added in a 17th-century hand on paper.

Contents:

1. f.1v: Tu Jesus in Missa [verse].

2. f.2r-7v: Calendar.

3. f.8r-9r: Table, and calculations for the date of Easter.

4. f.9v: Ad te levavi populus [verse] and Quomodo hystoriae per annum cantatur.

5. f.10r-12v: Notes (on medicine, agriculture) arranged according to the zodiac and the months of the year.

6. f.13r-16v: Registrum ordinis Cysterciensis [index].

7. f.17r: Quo ordine libri in refectorio per annum legunter.

8. f.17v-118v: Register.

9. f.119r-121v: Table of Dominical letters.

10. f.123r-139r: Directorium divini officii secundum usum Cisterciensium.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from f. 13r (Zacour-Hirsch).

Foliation: Parchment and paper, 139; [1-122], 1-17; 17th-century foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Script: First section written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand; second section written in a 17th-century cursive script by a second hand. Some marginal annotations in later hands.

Decoration: Rubricated headings, capitals, initials, and paragraph marks.

Binding: 16th-century stamped pigskin over wooden boards.

Origin: Written in Germany in the 15th century, with second section written in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 27 (Ms. Latin 120).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 737.

Contains:

Tu Jesus in Missa.

Ad te levavi populus.

Directorium divini officii secundum usum Cisterciensium.

OCLC:

212374979

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