The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

O.1.41

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Shelfmark O.1.41
Manuscript Title

Monastic Rule
Alternative Title

Monastic Rule, In Dutch [recte Low German?]
James Number 1065
Century 14th
Physical Description

27 lines to a page. Clearly written.
Provenance

Part of the Gale collection, given to T.C.C. by Roger Gale in 1738. C. 8. No. 139. Rule of the Brotherhood of the Hospital of S. Mary of the Dutch House of Jerusalem.
Donor Gale, Roger (1672-1744), Antiquary
Size (cm) 20 x 14
Folio 56 ff.
Material Parchment
Language EnglishLow GermanMiddle Dutch
Collation

1 flyleaf: 1 gone 28 3? (one left) 410 510 610 (6 canc.) 710 88 (1 canc.).
Notes

M.R. James describes as in Dutch, but query over Low German
IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.1.41/manifest.json
Online Since 05/03/2019

Contents

Begins imperfectly.
f.1 syme presante. Vnde do opende eme de helige geist ē dat de ē de de hogesten stat heuet inder ecclesien ē wo lef he sole hebben riddere etc.
The first section ends
myt manigerhande vriheide uṅ priuilegen.
f.2 Rubric: Dit is de regele der brodere van deme dudeschen hus sente marien denest lude
To deme loue der heren driualdicheit ane vehet hir de regele der brodere van denre spitale sancte marien des dudeschen huses van iherusalem.
The last section of the rules is on f.19
van der sorchuoldigen beschedenheide des mesteres.
Then follows
Hir nemet de regele ende.
f.19 Hir heuet sich an de geseckede der brodere des dudeschen huses
Ending on f.51a:
-bet an den manendach to methene.
Hir heuet de regele ende vṅ de geseckede.
Wol deme de dat beste dot.
Deme inert sin ende gherne gut.
Dit is wan de brodere solen venyen.
Vnde och wan se solen stan.
Ending f.54b:
bit man spreket ē Benedicite ē so sal man vp stan.
On f.55 is a memorandum headed
Anno dni moccccoxlijo.
Weyr bruder Herlynkhusen setze mykl gemeyner wylle d'gebyteger vnd velhort etc.

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