Isidore of Seville, Regula
Regula Isidori
CPL 1868
Incipit: Plura sunt praecepta vel instituta maiorum...
In the Codex Regularum the text is supplemented by two short texts:
Sententia de regula devotarum (PL 103, col. 555)
Concilii Spalense capitulo XLIIII era L (=Second Council of Seville (619), ch. 11, ed. Vives, Concilios Visigoticos, pp. 170-17) - image.
Editions:
- Holstenius, Lucas and Marianus Brockie, Codex Regularum, Augusburg 1759, pp. 188-197, online.
- Patrologia Latina, vol. 83, col. 867-894.
- Campos Ruiz, Julio, San Leandro, San Isidro, San Fructuoso. Reglas monásticas de la España visigoda, Madrid 1971, pp. 79-125.
Translations:
- Frank, Karl Suso, Hispanische Klosterregeln. Leander von Sevilla: Brief und Regel für Florentina, Isidor von Sevilla: Mönchsregel, St. Ottilien: Eos Verlag 2011.
- Godfrey, Aaron W., 'The Rule of Isidore', in: Monastic
studies 18 (1998), pp. 7-29.
Manuscripts:
| Cologne, Stadtbibliothek W 231 | A.D. 1465-1467 | fol. 80-87v | direct copy of MS M | catalogue;
image
from microfilm |
| Durham, Cathedral Library B.III.8 | s. XIV | fol. 215-220 | Ms D | Hill Manuscript Library |
| El
Escorial a.I.13 |
s. X |
fol. 41-50v |
Ms E |
catalogue |
| El
Escorial a.I.13 |
s. X |
fol. 32-33 |
Ms e |
ch. 4, 17 and 20
inserted into the Regula Benedicti |
| London,
British Library Add. 30055 |
s. X |
fol. 219-223 |
Ms L |
beginning - ch. 3 |
| Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional 4330 | s. XV | fol. 201 | fragment from ch. 12.4 | |
| Munich,
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 28118 |
s. IX in |
fol. 93-110v |
Ms M |
digital
image |
| Paris, BN lat. 10876 | s. IX | pp. 2-47 | Ms Pr |
catalogue |
| Paris, BN lat. 13090 |
s. XII | fol. 45/52v-53 | Ms Ps | catalogue; only fragments |
| Roma, Biblioteca Universitaria Alessandrina 97 | ||||
| Valenciennes, Bibl. publ. 288 (278) |
s. IX | fol. 88-105 | Ms V |
microfilm on library website |
The Regula Isidori is listed in library catalogue of Saint-Riquier (Hairulf, Chronicon Centulense III, c. 3, ed. Lot, p. 92).
Literature:
- Allies, Neil, ‘Re-evaluating monastic rules: style and literary purpose in the rule of Isidore’, in: Downside Review 128: 450 (2010), pp. 1-18.
- Allies, Neil, ‘The Sermo Plebeius and the Spoken Language in the Monastic Rule of Isidore of Seville’ in: L. Bleach u.a. (ed.), In Search of the Medieval Voice: Expressions of Identity in the Middle Ages, Newcastle: CSP 2009, pp. 3-18.
- Campos, J., ‘La “regula monachorum” de San Isidoro y su lengua’, in: Helmantica 37 (1961), pp. 62-101.
- Díaz y Díaz, Manuel C., ‘Aspectos de la tradicio’n de la Regula Isidori’, in: Studia Monastica 5 (1963), pp. 27-57.
- Díaz y Díaz, Manuel C., ‘El manuscrito de Lérins de la Regula Isidori’, in: Studia Monastica 7 (1965), pp. 365-382.
- Díaz, Pablo C., ‘Espacio real / espacio imaginado en los monasterios isidorianos’, in: J. López Quiroga, Am M. Martínez und J. Morín (ed.), Monasteria et Territoria. Elites, edilicia y territorio en el Mediterráneo medieval (siglos V-XI), Oxford 2007 (BAR International Series, vol. S1720), pp. 77-90.
- Maldonado, Castillo, 'Living a Christian Life: Isodore
of Seville on Monasticism, Teaching, and Learning', in:
drew Fear, Jamie Wood (eds.), A Companion to Isidore
of Seville, Leiden: Brill 2019, pp. 301-331.
- Martín, Jose Carlos, ‘Un nuevo manuscrito de la Regula monachorum (CPL 1868) de Isidoro de Sevilla: Roma, BU Alessandrina, 97’, in: Scriptorium 62:1 (2008), pp. 108-112.
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