Monasticism and religious orders
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on groups of Christians who live together under religious vows.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
MS 144: Composite manuscript including two texts, early 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 144
Contents
MS 144 contains the texts by early Christian monk and theologian, John Cassian, in the same hand.ff. 1r-45v: 'De institutis coenobiorum', by Johannus Cassianus [John Cassian]ff. 45v-103v: incomplete 'Collationes patrum in scetica eremo', by Johannus Cassianus [John Cassian]The texts are described separately, under MS 144/ff. 1r-45v; MS 144/ff. 45v-103v. Writing Written in a clear Gothic hand. There are...
Dates:
early 14th century
Speculum Monachorum by Arnoul de Bohéries
Part
Identifier: MS 113/ff. 236v-237v
Scope and Contents
This section contians 'Speculum Monachorum beati Bernhardi', 'Blessed Bernard's Mirror of the Monks'. This is a spiritual treatise, falsely attributed to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux but actually written by Arnoul de Bohéries in the 12th century. The text starts with the words 'Si quis emendacio vite desiderio, and ends with 'Imo sic se existimet quasi ipse et ... soli'.
Dates:
c 1444-1445