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Volume XV: The Rule of St Benedict
Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile Finding Aid Home
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Volume XV: The Rule of St Benedict
This manuscript is revered in the history of English and Price Listopean culture as the oldest surviving copy of the Rule. It was written in bold uncial script, of unmistakably Anglo-Saxon character, by a master scribe late in the seventh century or early in the eighth. During the Middle Ages, and as late as the seventeenth century, it was at Worcester. It has a great many beautifully drawn initials.
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Prologue 1-4r
Chapter list 4r-6v
Chapter 1: 6v De generibus monachorum
Chapter 2: 7v Qualis debeat esse abbas
Chapter 3: 11v De adhibendis ad consilium fratribus
Chapter 4: 12v Quæ sunt instrumenta bonorum operum
Chapter 5: 15r De oboedentia
Chapter 6: 16v De taciturnitate
Chapter 7: 17v De humilitate
Chapter 8: 24v De officiis divinis in noctibus
Chapter 9: 24v Quanti psalmi dicendi sunt nocturni
Chapter 10: 25v Qualiter æstatis tempore agatur nocturna laus
Chapter 11: 26r Qualiter diebus dominicis vigiliæ agantur
Chapter 12: 27v Quomodo matutinorum sollemnitas agatur
Chapter 13: 27v Privatis diebus qualiter agantur matutini
Chapter 14: 28v In nataliciis sanctorum qualiter agantur vigiliæ
Chapter 15: 29r Alleluia quibus temporibus dicatur
Chapter 16: 29r Qualiter divina opera per diem agantur
Chapter 17: 29v Quot psalmi per easdem horas dicendi sunt
Chapter 18: 30v Quo ordine ipsi psalmi dicendi sunt
Chapter 19: 33r De disciplina psallendi
Chapter 20: 33r De reverentia orationis
Chapter 21: 33v De decanis monasterii
Chapter 22: 34r Quomodo dormiant monachi
Chapter 23: 35r De excommunicatione culparum
Chapter 24: 35v Qualis debet esse modus excommunicationis
Chapter 25: 36r De gravioribus culpis
Chapter 26: 36v De his qui sine iussione iungunt se excommunicatis
Chapter 27: 36v Qualiter debeat abbas sollicitus esse circa excommunicatos
Chapter 28: 37v De his qui sæpius correpti emendare noluerint
Chapter 29: 38v Si debeant fratres exeuntes de monasterio item recipi
Chapter 30: 38v De pueris minori ætate qualiter corripiantur
Chapter 31: 39r De cellarario monasterii qualis sit
Chapter 32: 40v De ferramentis vel rebus monasterii
Chapter 33: 40v Si quid debeant monachi proprium habere
Chapter 34: 41v Si omnes æqualiter debeant necessaria accipere
Chapter 35: 42r De septimanariis coquinæ
Chapter 36: 43r De infirmis fratribus
Chapter 37: 44r De senibus vel infantibus
Chapter 38: 44r De ebdomadario lectore
Chapter 39: 45v De mensura cibus
Chapter 40: 46r De mensura potus
Chapter 41: 47v Quibus horis oportet reficere fratres
Chapter 42: 47v Ut post conpletorium nemo loquatur
Chapter 43: 48v De his qui ad opus Dei vel ad mensam tarde occurrunt
Chapter 44: 50r De his qui excommunicantur quomodo satisfaciant
Chapter 45: 51r De his qui falluntur in oratorio
Chapter 46: 51r De his qui in aliis quibuslibet rebus delinquunt
Chapter 47: 51v De significanda hora operis Dei
Chapter 48: 52r De opera manuum cotidiana
Chapter 49: 54r De quadragesimæ observatione
Chapter 50: 55r De fratribus qui longe ab oratorio laborant aut in via sunt
Chapter 51: 55v De fratribus qui non longe satis proficiscuntur
Chapter 52: 55v De oratorio monasterii
Chapter 53: 56r De hospitibus suscipiendis
Chapter 54: 57v Si debeat monachus litteras vel aliquid suscipere
Chapter 55: 58r De vestiario vel calciario fratrum
Chapter 56: 60r De mensa abbatis
Chapter 57: 60r De artificibus monasterii
Chapter 58: 60r De disciplina suscipiendorum fratrum
Chapter 59: 63r De filiis nobilium aut pauperum qui offeruntur
Chapter 60: 64r De sacerdotibus qui forte voluerint in monasterio habitare
Chapter 61: 65r De monachis peregrinis qualiter suscipiantur
Chapter 62: 66r De sacerdotibus monasterii
Chapter 63: 67r De ordine congregationis
Chapter 64: 68v De ordinando abbate
Chapter 65: 70v De præposito monasterii
Chapter 66: 72v De hostiariis monasterii
Chapter 67: 73r De fratribus in viam directis
Chapter 68: 74r Si fratri inpossibilia iniungantur
Chapter 69: 74v Ut in monasterio non præsumat alter alterum defendere
Chapter 70: 74v Ut non præsumat passim aliquis cædere
Chapter 71: 75r Ut oboedientes sibi sint invicem
Chapter 72: 76r De zelo bono quod debent monachi habere
Chapter 73: 76v De hoc quod non omnis iustitiæ observatio in hac sit regula constituta