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Author:

Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226, author.

Title:

Regula Fratrum Minorum Sancti Francisci.

Publisher:

Printer of the Apostolic Camera,

Copyright Date:

1601

Description:

12 unnumbered pages ; 210 x 159 mm (4°)

Subject:

Franciscans--Early works to 1800.--Early works to 1800.
Monastic and religious life--Early works to 1800.
Vie religieuse et monastique--Ouvrages avant 1800.
tailpieces (layout features)
woodcuts (prints)
decorated initials
historiated initials
borders (ornament areas)
vellum (paper)

Other Authors:

Gesualdo, Filippo, writer of postface.
Catholic Church. Camera Apostolica, publisher. publisher.

Other Titles:

Regula.

Notes:

Signatures: A-C⁴. "Minister General Filippo Gesualdi (1550-1618) commissioned this edition for distribution to the reformed novitiates, recently established by Pope Clement VIII to strengthen the frier's vows of strict poverty and communal life. In his two-page postface, Gesualdi invites teachers to correct faulty copies against the newly established text."--description provided by vendor "The rule of Saint Francis on vellum--the? [sic] first print philological transcription of the original document."--description provided by vendor. "Roman types, woodcut initials and tailpiece, typographic tailpieces and line filers, text and title in typographic frames."--description provided by vendor. Illustrative content includes woodcut illustration on the title page, historiated initials at the beginning of each section, and ornamental borders throughout. "Recent vellum-backed boards covered with two large fragments of a single leaf from Koberger's 1493 Liber chonicarum [i.e., The Nuremberg Chronicle] (f. 203[superscript roman numeral V]), spine painted brown."--description provided by vendor

Contents:

[Postface] / Cap. XII. Innomine Domini -- Incipit vita Minorum Fratrum Cap. II. -- De [undeciphered word] qui volunt vitam istam accipere, & qualiter recipi, debeant -- Cap. III. De Diuino officio, & leiunio, & quomodo Fratres debeant ire per mundum. -- Cap. IIII. Quòd fratres non recipiant pecuniam -- Cap. V. De modo laborandi -- Cap. VI. Quòd nihil approprient [sibi?] Fratres. Et de eleemosyana petenda. Et de Fratribus infirmis. -- Cap. VII. De poenitentia fratribus pecantibus imponenda -- Cap. VIII. De elec︠t︡ione Generalis Ministri huius Fraternitatis. Et de Capiulo Penthecostes -- Cap. IX. De Praedicatoribus -- Cap. X. De ammonitione, & correc︠t︡ione Fratrum -- Cap. XI. Quòd Fratres non ingrediantur Monasteria Monacharum -- Cap. XII. De euntibus inter Sarracenos, & alios Infideles -- [Postface] / F. Filippo Gesualdo Ministro Generale & Seruo dell' Ordine Minore Conuentuale.

Summary:

"Drafted in 1209 and approved by the church in 1223, the Rule revolutionized Western monasticism. Divided in twelve brief chapters, it governs all aspects of Franciscan daily life including book ownership (breviaries only), punishment of sinful friars and the duty of mission among the infidels." -- description provided by vendor

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1422280686

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)