s. XIV. MANUSCRIPT: (CISTERCIAN CODEX-ORDER).... Lot 1

s. XIV. MANUSCRIPT: (CISTERCIAN CODEX-ORDER). BOOKS OF STATUTES OF THE CISTERCIAN ORDER. Latin manuscript, on parchment, 8th . It brings together two examples of the books of statutes or definitions of the Cistercian Order, both preceded by one of the founding documents of the Order, the Carta caritatis. It is composed of two collections of Cistercian statutes, enc. together in a volume of leather, grazed plans. 105 h. unnumbered: 1 h. preliminary + 38 (first part) + 66 (second part, made up of notebooks of 8, with claims). The f.[2] is mutilated (it contained the title and beginning of the index of the first part); f. 40-43] the lower corner is missing, without affecting the text. They are copies of two different scribes. In the first part the pages have between 29 and 31 lines, headings, initials and pilot whales in red; in the second part between 22 and 25 lines, headings in red, capitals and initials alternating in red and blue, big capital in f. 40] dull. It had belonged to the library of the Cistercian monastery of Monfero (A Coruña), by donation of one of its most illustrious monks, Agustín Vázquez Varela (1722-1794), according to the exlibris printed on the preliminary page: 'The illustrious gentleman Don Agustín Varela, son of the same monastery, ex-general of the same order and bishop of Solsona, gave to the Library of Santa María de Monfero, of the order of Saint Bernard'. On the same sheet, there are exlibris manuscripts, possibly autographed by the aforementioned bishop: 'ad usum domini Augustini Vasquez Varela, cisterciensis, Monferiensis monachi' and a note by an old librarian archivist from the 19th century. Although they are two copies of the same work, there are accidental variations. The first is dated 1317, the second, although not dated, is later. This codex, unknown until now, joins the series of handwritten collections of statutes emanating from the general chapters of the Cistercian Order that have been preser