Beinecke MS 386               Italy, s. XIII^^med
Cistercian Order, Statutes

1.  ff. 1r-2v Incipit prologus in opere subsequenti.  In episcopatu
lingonensi situm noscitur esse cenobium nomine molismus...largius
continet ea que diximus.

     Summa exordii Cisterciensis coenobii; J. Turk, Cistercii statuta
antiquissima (Vatican City, 1948) pp. 81-82.  The manuscript is lacking
the final seven words of the printed text.

2.  ff. 2v-96r Incipiunt capitula. i. De aduentu domini.  .ij.
Quomodo per hyemem...[text, f. 5r:] Incipit liber vsuum secundum
consuetudinem fratrum cisterciensium.  de aduentu domini.  primo Capitulo.
In aduentu domini dominica prima ysaias incipiatur ad uigilias...benedicat potum
seruorum suorum.  Explicit liber usuum.

     Liber usuum; P. Guignard, Les monuments primitifs de la Regle
Cistercienne (Dijon, 1878) pp. 91-245.

3.  ff. 96r-99v Carta karitatis.  Antequam abbatie Cystercienses florere
inciperent...sed ubi a quattuor supranominatis abbatibus preuisum
fuerit celebrabitur.  Carta caritatis explicit.

     Carta caritatis; Guignard, op. cit., pp. 79-84.  The readings are
from what J. Turk (op. cit., pp. 109ff.) calls the Carta caritatis
posterior.

4.  ff. 99v-100r Ordo in vigilia sancte crucis.  In uigilia sancte
crucis abbates ad capitulum uenientes intrent...nisi pro presenti
defuncto fuerint impediti.  Recordamini ut oratio in capitulo instituatur,
a presidente pro generali capitulo in hac ipsa uigilia.  Que usque ad
absolutionem capituli eiusdem teneatur.  Hec est illa oratio que debet
institui uidelicet.  Deus misereatur nostri.  Pater noster. et Deus qui
corda fidelium.

     Statute passed in the General Chapter in 1211; J. Paris, Nomasticon
Cisterciense (Solesmes, 1892) p. 277.  The printed text ends at
defuncto.

5.  f.100r [Added in a later hand:] Gospel reading for the Octave of
Epiphany:  Luke 3.21-4.1, with the collect Deus qui hodierna die.  f.
100v blank

     Parchment, ff. 100 + i (paper, later than binding?), 292 x 191
(209 x 137) mm. 27 long lines, ruled in lead, single vertical and
double upper horizontal bounding lines, mostly full length and full across.
Prickings in all but inner margins.
     I-XII^^8, XIII^^4.  Remains of catchwords in lower margin, verso, in
a much smaller script.
     Written by one scribe in a large, round early gothic bookhand.
Art. 5 (f. 100r) added, perhaps in the 14th century, in a later form
of gothic script, possibly by a German rather than an Italian scribe.
     Initial on f. 96r (Carta caritatis) 3-line, blue and red with
penwork in red and blue.  Initial on f. lr blue and red, 4-line.
2- or 1-line initials in blue or red, rarely with penwork in the other
color.  Strokes on 1-line initials, headings, chapter numbers, and
line fillers in red.
     Binding:  s. xix.  Vellum case with black, gold-tooled goatskin labels.
Endbands and sewing earlier.
Pastedowns from a 15th-century antiphonal, with square notes on 4-line red
staves.  Hymn on back pastedown beginning In diuinis [RH 8569 or 4335].

Written in Italy in the mid-13th century, after 1232 because St. Dionysius is
given two masses (f. 45r), a situation which dates from an act of the General
Chapter in 1232.  Collection of Ernest Petit (1835-1918; bookplate), historian
of Burgundy (see his Chartes, manuscrits autographes, documents historiques
sur la Bourgogne, faisant partie d'une collection particuliere [Paris,
1886] pp. 58-59, no. 162).  The detailed note of Philippe Guignard, dated 12
March 1879, at Dijon, is bound in the back of the volume; he apparently examined
the manuscript while it was in Petit's collection.  Belonged to the Abbey of
Gethsemani, Kentucky (MS 5) which obtained it from Alphonse Picard, Paris, in
1922.  Purchased from the private collector Laurence Taylor Greer by
H. P. Kraus.  Given to the Beinecke Library by Kraus in 1968.

secundo folio:  [hu]ius uere

Bibliography:  De Ricci, v. 1, p. 731, no. 5 (while in the possession of
Gethsemani Abbey).

Barbara A. Shailor