St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1345, Ruler on page – A German translation of the statutes of the Cistercian order for the nuns’ convent of Günterstal near Freiburg im Breisgau
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1345, Ruler on page – A German translation of the statutes of the Cistercian order for the nuns’ convent of Günterstal near Freiburg im Breisgau
http://www.e-codices.ch/en/csg/1345/bindingRulerS
Manuscript Summary:This manuscript was written by the Freiburg University Theology Professor Jodocus Lorichius (1540-1612) for the Cistercian nuns of Günterstal. It was dedicated to the convent’s abbess, Maria Störin von Störenberg. Following a prologue by Lorichius on the usefulness of liturgical ceremonies, the author provides the nuns with German translations of two of the founding texts of the Cistercian order from the twelfth century: the Exordium Cistercii, a narrative of the early history of the order, and the Ecclesiastica Officia, a set of regulations for liturgical and monastic life. It concludes with a short justification of why Cistercians pray the Seven Penitential Psalms on a Friday. A set of statutes (the Usus Conversorum) for lay brothers, translated into German, is appended. Lorichius dedicated four printed books to the nuns of Günterstal between 1581 and 1598, all in German, and this manuscript must be seen as part of this wider relationship.(war)
Additional description: Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 450.
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1345
Paper · 710 pp. · 20.8 x 14 cm · Cistercian nuns’ convent Günterstal · 1583
A German translation of the statutes of the Cistercian order for the nuns’ convent of Günterstal near Freiburg im Breisgau
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1345, Ruler on page – A German translation of the statutes of the Cistercian order for the nuns’ convent of Günterstal near Freiburg im Breisgau (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/csg/1345)
Manuscript title: A German translation of the statutes of the Cistercian order for the nuns’ convent of Günterstal near Freiburg im Breisgau
Place of origin: Cistercian nuns’ convent Günterstal
Date of origin: 1583
Support: Paper
Extent:
710 pages
Format: 20.8 x 14 cm
Main language: German
Contents:
1r>Ordnung Täglicher Caeremonien und gebräuchen Cistertzer Ordens. Nit allein dem gantzen Orden in gemain, Sonder auch jeden desselben personen, fast notwendig zu wissen. Mit aim Zuesatz von gebräuchen der ConversBruedern desselben Ordens. Nun Verteutscht, durch IOD. LORICHIVM, H. Schrifft Doct. und Professorn zue Freiburg im Breißgaw. Im Jar. M: D. LXXXIII.<
1vZue Ehren der Edlen Ehrwürdigen. Gaistlichen Frawen, Fr. MARIEN Störin von Störenberg, Abbtissin, und dero würdigen Adelichen Gaistlichen Convent Im Gottshauß Güntersthal bey Freiburg, Cistertzer Ordens. Seinen in Christo Vilgeliebten. IOD. LORICHIVS.
4r-9rExordium Cistercii
(German).
>ORDNUNG Täglicher gebräuchen Cistertzer ordens. Vorred. Vom anfang Cistertzer ordens. Wie die Cistertzer, auß dem Kloster Molismus gnant, gewychen sein.<
Cf. Narrative and Legislative Texts from Early Cîteaux, Chrysogonus Waddell (ed.), Studia et Documenta IX (Cîteaux: Commentarii Cistercienses, 1999), pp. 399-404.
9v-352vEcclesiastica Officia
(German)
(Register: 9v-20v).
[21r]:
>Vom aduent des Herrn.<Am ersten Sonntag in Aduent des herrn, soll man zuer Metten anfahen lesen den Propheten Esaiam. …
Cf. Chapters 1-121 of Les Ecclesiastica officia cisterciens du XIIe siècle : texte latin selon les manuscrits édités de Trente 1711, Ljubljana 31 et Dijon 114, version franc̜aise, annexe liturgique, notes, index et tables, Danièle Choisselet and Placide Vernet (ed.), (Reiningue : Documentation cistercienne, 1989), pp. 66-339.
Lorichius includes the following chapters not listed in Choisselet and Vernet: Vom maister der layen Brüder, vnd des gewands (343v-346r) and Die form der visitation (346r-352v).
For the latter see H. Séjalon, Nomasticon cisterciense (Solesmes: 1892), pp. 219-20.
353r-353v>Beschlusß. Warumb im Cistertzer Orden, die Siben Busßpsalmen am freytag gebettet werden.<
1r-22rUsus Conversorum (German).>Orden der Layen Brüeder Bey dem Cistertzern. Vffs new verteuscht. Ano 1582 durch Iod. Lorichium.<
(1v-3r)
Register
[3v]:
Vorred vber die gebrauch der Layen Brüeder.
Cf. Cistercian Lay Brothers. Twelfth-Century Usages with Related Texts, Chrysogonus Waddell (ed.), Studia et Documenta X (Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses, 2000), pp. 55-78.
Literatur
Gustav Scherrer, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, (Halle 1875), p. 450.
Karl-Heinz Braun, ‘Der Freiburger Theologieprofessor Jodocus Lorichius (1540- 1612) – Spuren des Humanismus bei einem konfessionellen Theologen’, Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv, 124 (2004), pp. 41-60.
Edmund Wareham, ‘Wann du fromm lebst | so wirst du nimmer trawrig’: Professor Jodocus Lorichius and the Cistercian Nuns of Günterstal’, Oxford German Studies, 43.4 (2014), pp. 362-79.