The first and longest section consists of the meditations. There follows a series of religious stories or "examples," one of which concerns a Cistercian monastery, which were apparently used as parables to illustrate certain points. The next section contains rules for observance of Lent, for the governance of a monastery, and a number of brief, general rules for monks. At the end of the... The text is in two distinct hands. Binding: original boards; evidence of half leather covering, now lost. Various later owners have inserted comments, including records of the Pauly family of Bamberg, Northern Bavaria. Purchased by the University of Chicago from S. Calvary & Co. of Berlin in 1891.
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