Italy, late-fifteenth century
This manuscript may have been prepared as a gift for a young girl about to enter a convent. The Rules were written slightly later than the Office - perhaps by the mature nun herself - and include regulations on clothing, daily services, fasting, providing for the sick, and so on. The page shown here describes the rules for rising in the morning, for confession and communion, and for observing silence.
Fig. 1: Parchment, 10 folios, 178 x 129 (118 x 83) mm, 1 column, 22 lines, in Italian, written in Gothic rotunda script.
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Office for the reception of novices into a nunnery, with Rules of the Order of the Penance of St. Dominic
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Italy, late-fifteenth century
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Parchment, 10 folios, 178 x 129 (118 x 83) mm, 1 column, 22 lines, in Italian, written in Gothic rotunda script.
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Collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg
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