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Monasticism and religious orders

 Subject

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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 3 Collections and/or Records:

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript containing twenty-three texts

Thesis entitled “The decline of Scottish monasticism in the fifteenth century” by Alastair MacDonald Taylor

 Fonds — Volume Dk.2.7
Identifier: Coll-2142
Scope and Contents

Thesis by Alastair MacDonald Taylor entitled "The decline of Scottish monasticism in the fifteenth century", 1939.

Dates: 1939
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections