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Manuscripts
ff. 1-18. [Clare of Assisi]. [Rules]. Dutch. Rule of St. Clare; for the Latin text, see Ignacio Omaechevarria, O.F.M., Escritos de Santa Clara (Madrid 1970) 251-76. On medieval Dutch manuscripts of the Rule and related texts, see David de Kok, ""Codices van Klarissen,"" Nederlandsch Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis, n.s. 17 (1924) 200-25, and his Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis der Nederlandsche klarissen en tertiarissen voor de Hervorming. Werken uitgegeven door het Historisch Genootschap, Utrecht, ser. 3, No. 52 (Utrecht 1927) and ""De Zegen van S. Clara in het Oud-Nederlandsch,"" Het Boek 10 (1921) 321-26. ff. 18-25v. [Clare of Assisi]. [Testament]. Dutch. For the Latin text see Omaechevarria, 277-86. ff. 25v-26v. [Clare of Assisi]. [Benediction]. Dutch. For the Latin text see Omaechevarria, 400-01. ff. 26v-27; ff. 27v-30, notes. [Profession of a nun]. Dutch. Vow of profession, with interlinear changes in another hand, contemporary. On f. 27v, autobiographical notes dated 1536 and 1555, Ic suster Clara van vorssel vaert gheboren op den xxisten dach van Julio op sinte Maria magdaleenen auent. . .Anno m.v.c ende vi dertich. . .[and professed] Int Jaer ons heer m vc 1v. . .; on f. 28, prayer and versicles for the profession of vows; on ff. 28-30, devotional material, arranged numerically (5 holy rules, 6 points, etc.).
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