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Prescriptive texts for the education of the nuns, c. 1560
part
Identifier: MS 152/ff. 23r-32v
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The three texts which follow the Rule of Saint Benedict were probably intended to complement the Rule itself, as they lay out additional prescriptions regarding the life of the nuns in the convent. Since the hand is the same of the first text, they might have been conceived as unit and therefore copied together, but in this case the scribe has not left any indication.Ten Commandments: start on f. 23r. They are introduced by the...
Dates:
c. 1560
Rule of Saint Benedict, 1560
part
Identifier: MS 152/ff. 1r-22r
Contents
The first and most important text of the collection is an abbreviated form of the Rule of Saint Benedict, which governed life in the monasteries of the Benedictine order to which the mixed, but mainly feminine, convent of San Lorenzo in Venice belonged. In the title, the scribe, Gerolamo Zio, affirms that the text was requested by the Abbess Cipriana Michiel and, in the colophon (i.e. the final note), that he wrote it in 1560 (October)....
Dates:
1560