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)....