Collection ID: 0028 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Ordo ad recipiendum novicias in monasterio

Other related names

• Paula da Milano, former owner
• Petrus Amadeus Ghixulphus, former owner
• San Lorenzo, Vicomercato, former owner
• Vollbehr, Otto H. F. (Otto Heinrich Friederich), 1869-, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/7758429)
• Rosenbach, A.S.W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/56752944)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 485/8
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, The Rosenbach)

Publisher

The Rosenbach

Language

Latin; Italian

Origin

Place

Milan or Padua, Italy

Summary

This short manuscript contains the Ordo for the entry of a female novitiate into a monastic order according to the rules of the Benedictine congregation of Santa Giustina in Padua. The central vow of obedience and stability, found on folios 8v-9r, is written in Italian and is specific to Sister Paula da Milano. As stated in this portion of the text, the vow was performed on August 27, 1548, in the presence of the abbess, Donna Benedetta da Milano. The manuscript includes musical notation.

Notes

• Ownership note on upper pastedown: Acipe soror mea vexillam sancte crucis signaculum victorie tue: ut hoc singulare signum quod in exemplum illius primi sacratisimi vexilli precioxo domini nostri Jesu Christi sanguine triunfalis erectum est: sit tibi remedium singu-lare: soliditas fidei perfectus bonorum operum: redentio anime: perfectio ac tu-tela contra seva iacula inimicorum: & tu tamen anime tue: qui cum patre et spiritu sancto vivis ad regnam deus per omnia secula seculorum. Amen.
   
• Ownership note on recto of front flyleaf: Sancti Laurentii Vicomercati
   
• Ownership note at bottom of fol. 28v: Iste liber est monasterii sancti laurentii in Vicomerchato capite plebis Donatus per redum dominum presbiterum Petrus Amadeus Ghixilphum Confessorem huius monasterii anno 1550
   

Extent

I+28+i; 196 x 141 mm bound to 198 x 143 mm

Foliation

Early foliation in ink, upper right recto

Collation

1-3 (8), 4 (4)

Signatures

Original signatures, partially cropped, visible in lower-right rectos at: 2r, 3r, 4r, 9r, 10r, 11r, 12r

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal three-letter catchwords at folios 8v and 24v

Binding

Original italian stamped calf

Layout

One column of twenty lines, ruled in brown ink; written area: 147 x 89 mm

Decoration

Two-line initials in red ink throughout

Script

Gothic--Rotunda

Provenance

• Given in 1550 to the monastery of San Lorenzo at Vicomercato by the confessor Petrus Amadeus Ghixulphus; Otto H. F. Vollbehr, his no. 1058; purchased in 1946 from his collection through the Bank of America
   

Keywords

• Document
• 16th century
• Italian
• Gothic
• Musical notation
• Italy
• Devotion

Licenses

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