Walters Ms. W.340, Rule of St. Augustine Regola di sancto augustino per le suore Le constitutioni per le monache che del ordine di sancto augustino Regula sancti augustini Regola di Sant'Agostino per le suore Rules of St. Augustine Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Principal cataloger Berlin, Nicole Cataloger Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934 Editor Herbert, Lynley Copy editor Dibble, Charles Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Herbert, Lynley Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Conservator Polidori, Elisabetta Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 This manuscript, written in Italy at the end of the fifteenth century, contains three different texts attributed to St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE). Augustine was an early Christian theologian and scholar from Roman North Africa who is considered one of the most important Church Fathers. The texts in this manuscript are guidelines for Augustine's followers, monks and nuns alike, on how to live a simple and pious Christian life. The first and third texts are specifically written for his female and male followers respectively as indicated by the miniatures on fols. 1r and 26r. The fourth text in the manuscript is roughly the same as the first and seems to have been added later, perhaps in 1714, the date inscribed above the rubric (fol. 33r). On fol. 26r, the Augustine monk St. Nicholas of Tolentino (d. 1304, canonized 1446) appears in the lower margin, which suggests the Walters manuscript was originally for a monastery dedicated to this saint. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.340 The primary language in this manuscript is Italian. The secondary language of this manuscript is Latin. 1r - 41v Rules of St. Augustine 1r - 7r Regola di sancto augustino per le suore Regola di sancto augustino per le suore Innanzi ad tutte le cose suore Contains 23 individual chapters or "rules" and their short explanations 7r - 25v Le constitutioni per le monache che del ordine di sancto augustino Queste sono le constitutioni per le monache che del ordine di sancto augustino & di sancta Monica tengono el sancto habito Consciosia cosa che per comandamento della regola Contains 20 individual chapters or "rules" and their short explanations Amen 26r - 33r Regula sancti augustini Regula sancti augustini Ante omnia Fratres kmi [i.e. carissimi] diligatur Deus deinde proximus [sic] Contains 30 individual chapters or "rules" and their short explanations Amen 33v - 41v Regola di Sant'Agostino per le suore Regola di Sant'Agostino per le suore Inanzi a tutte le cose suore carissime Contains 23 individual chapters or "rules" and their short explanations; Roughly the same text as in the first part of manuscript, "Regola di sancto augustino per le suore," with some variation; Date "1714" written above rubric and this, along with different hand, suggest this part of manuscript added later than the rest, perhaps in the eighteenth century Amen

Medium-weight, cream-colored parchment; the bifolium that forms the upper pastedown and flyleaf is from an account book (?) with entries for June 1397

 Foliation: i + 4123.0 14.5 14.5 8.8 Modern pencil foliation, upper right corners, rectos; fol. 41 is blank

i + Quires 1-3: 10 (fols. 1-30); Quire 4: 8 (fols. 31-38); Quire 5: 2 (fols. 39-40); i (fol. 41) Found throughout, written horizontally at the right edge of the lower margin, versos Fol. 41 is blank and forms a bifolium with the back pastedown

 Measurements for the first three (and older) works within the book (up to fol. 33r) Humanist script except for the last text (fols. 33v-41v), which seems to have been added later Intricately detailed margins and illuminations before each of the first three texts: miniature of St. Augustine presenting his book of rules to a group of kneeling nuns, two medallions with Augustinian nuns, likely St. Monica in the bottom margin, a medallion with "ΙΣΧΣ" in gold letters flanked by putti in the upper margin, added floral detail in red, blue, green and gold leaf on three sides (fol. 1r); an inhabited inital "C" with a portrait of St. Augustine, a medallion in the top margin with "IHS" in gold letters, a detailed floral border similar to that on fol. 1r on two sides (fol. 7r); a miniature of St. Augustine presenting his book of rules to a group of kneeling monks, two medallions with Augustine monks, that in the lower margin depicting St. Nicholas of Tolentino (d. 1304, canonized 1446), a medallion with "IHS" in gold letters flanked by lions in the upper margin, a floral border in green, red, blue and gold leaf on three sides; each chapter begins with a small decorated initial in gold leaf (Roman square block capitals) on a background of red, green, and blue pigment with added detail in gold; incipits and explicits in red ink; main text in black ink St. Augustine Presenting his Book of Rules to Kneeling Nuns Regola di sancto augustino per le suore Miniature; medallions Miniature of St. Augustine presenting his book of rules to a group of kneeling nuns, two medallions with Augustinian nuns, likely St. Monica in the bottom margin, a medallion with "ΙΣΧΣ" in gold letters flanked by putti in the upper margin, added floral detail in red, blue, green and gold leaf on three sides. Inhabited Initial "C" with a Portrait of St. Augustine Le constitutioni per le monache che del ordine di sancto augustino Inhabited initial "C," 7 lines; medallions Inhabited initial "C" with a portrait of St. Augustine, a medallion in the top margin with "IHS" in gold letters, a detailed floral border on two sides. St. Augustine Presenting his Book of Rules to Kneeling Monks Regula sancti augustini Miniature; medallions Miniature of St. Augustine presenting his book of rules to a group of kneeling monks, two medallions with Augustinian monks, a medallion with "IHS" in gold letters flanked by lions in the upper margin, a floral border in green, red, blue and gold leaf on three sides. Beginning of "Regola di Sant'Agostino per le suore" Regola di Sant'Agostino per le suore Text Page

Brown goat(?) leather binding created ca. 1490 in Italy; blind-tooled and stamped; on both boards an ovular stamp surrounded by sun rays and enclosing the inscription "IHS' with a cross above and three nails below; rebacked at a later period

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