HOLLIS searches for 'Donatus Vesontionensis regula' and 'Donatus rule for virgins Besancon' return zero records, so no edition or translation is indexed under the title. The Latin text is nevertheless in TEI in Corpus Corporum (Patrologia Latina, work 'Regula ad virgines', text idno 8269, 9,436 words, fetched HTTP 200). No English version appears in the Columbanian or Benedictine translation literature returned by the related searches, and the contents field of 'Regular life' (TEAMS, 1997) does not name it among the rules excerpted there.
Donatus compiled the rule for the nunnery of Jussa from Benedict, Columbanus and Caesarius, and it is therefore the clearest single witness to the seventh-century Frankish fusion of the three great Western rules. At 9,436 words it is a substantial text, and its complete absence from English hides the mechanism by which Benedict's rule was actually disseminated in Merovingian Gaul.
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| corpus-corporum · TEI · public domain (Migne, Patrologia Latina; TEI by Corpus Corporum, University of Zurich) |
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| Grammar and text in synchrony and diachrony : in honour of Gottfried Graustein | "Grammar and text in synchrony and diachrony : in honour of Gottfried Graustein." Frankfurt am Main ; Madrid : Vervuert : Iberoamericana, [1997]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99162715087403941 |
| Extracts from and notes on Old English literature : manuscript, [18--] | Cockayne, Thomas Oswald, 1807-1873. "Extracts from and notes on Old English literature : manuscript, [18--]." 18??. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990097289580203941 |
| Regular life : monastic, canonical, and mendicant rules | "Regular life : monastic, canonical, and mendicant rules." Kalamazoo, Mich. : Published for TEAMS by Medieval Institute Publications, 1997. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990078698350203941 |
| Ordering women's lives : penitentials and nunnery rules in the early medieval West | Smith, Julie Ann. "Ordering women's lives : penitentials and nunnery rules in the early medieval West." Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2001. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990087938990203941 |
| The Pursuit of Salvation. Community, Space, and Discipline in Early Medieval Monasticism : With a Critical Edition and Translation of the Regula Cuiusdam Ad Uirgines | Diem, Albrecht, 1968-. "The Pursuit of Salvation. Community, Space, and Discipline in Early Medieval Monasticism : With a Critical Edition and Translation of the Regula Cuiusdam Ad Uirgines." Turnhout Brepols 2021. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158343796403941 |