This elegant, well-preserved manuscript, surviving in its original wallet binding, contains a Rule for the Third Order Regular of Franciscans in Spain, issued as a revision of earlier Rules after the Order's privileges were confirmed by papal bull. This is an unedited, and apparently unstudied, text of considerable historical interest, not only for the Rule itself but for the extensive preface that contextualizes its formulation. Although presumably copies of this Rule were made for the houses of the Third Order Regular in sixteenth-century Spain, no other copies are documented to date. ... This Rule in Spanish for the Order of Penance, the Third Order Regular of St. Francis, was issued by Fray Antonio de Tablada, Visitor General and chief minister of the Third Order Regular in Castile, Leo?�n, and Andalusia, at the Order's General Chapter meeting of 1528. -- Seller's description.

In Collection:

• Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection

Creator

• Tablada, Antonio de, Frey

Subject

• Franciscans
• Penance (Canon law)
• Monasticism and religious orders--Rules
• Third Order Regular of St. Francis
• Penance

Language

• lat
• spa

Identifier

• Shelf Mark: Ms.Span.1
• Call Number: BX3654 A3 1528

Date created

• approximately 1528 to approximately 1530

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only

Extent

• 33 folios; parchment; 256-260 x 185-191 mm

Alternative title

• Rule of the holy order of penance of the regular observance of ... Saint Francis

Geographic Coverage

• Spain

Coordinates

• 40, -4

Additional physical characteristics

• "Modern foliation in pencil, top outer recto, 1-33 (collation i10 [-5 -7; cancelled with no apparent loss of text; neat stubs remain] ii8 iii8 [-2 -3; two leaves lacking with loss of text] iv12 [-1;cancelled with no apparent loss of text; neat stub remains]), horizontal (quire i) or slightly diagonal (quires ii-iii) catchwords with decorative frames, lower inner verso, ruled in lead with full-length vertical bounding lines, copied on every other ruled line, prickings visible in upper, lower, and outer margins (justification 177-198 x 132-144 mm.), written in black ink in a very fine formal Iberian Gothic Rotunda bookhand in twenty-eight to thirty-one long lines, red rubrics with black paraphs, red paraphs, red and black line-fillers, two- to five-line red initials with pen decoration in black and purple, with following word nearly always written in larger, bolder Rotunda script, some of the ink has faded on f. 9, though text remains legible, slight gaps in parchment stitched together in the lower outer corners of ff. 7 and 16, blurred library stamp visible in lower margin of f. 1..... Original wallet binding of limp parchment, with upper cover continuing in a flap that wraps around the fore-edge, binding straps now lacking, with pattern of holes in the lower cover indicating where these straps may once have been attached, sewn on three white leather thongs laced through slits in the spine and upper and lower covers, inscription in dark ink in cursive on upper cover, “Regla de l[a?] Sagrada orden de penitencia de la N[uestra] S[eraphica] P[adre] S[ant] Francisco,” with inscription, “LOC(?) / S,” written over it and a year, “1530,” noted above it in much smaller script, probable pressmark, “[L? or D?] 18,” written on the spine in dark brown ink, a folded fragment from a twelfth-century(?) liturgical manuscript containing musical notation has been used as reinforcement in the fore-edge flap of the upper cover, parchment of binding now stained and slightly curled with a tear over the spine." -- Bookseller's description.

Physical Repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• manuscripts (documents)

Fonds title

• Medieval Studies Collection

Fonds identifier

• SC070

Is referenced by

• Special Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php.

Date digitized

• October 10, 2013

Transcript

• Transcription by Rachelle Ann Tan with reference to the partial transcription of Cana Donovan (for fols. 11r28-16v), as part of coursework for a manuscript studies course with Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (ENGL), April 2016, is available here: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/documents/ms-span-1.PDF

Technical note

• Scanned using TTI Betterlight @ 600dpi. PdeWolfe. Metadata by KD.

Rights

• Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original manuscript and for reproduction requests (fee for reproductions). This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/1rhc-1587

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