IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA Port Royal
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: Port Royal de Paris, Abbey
Date(s): [Late 19th century]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Not known.
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The manuscript presumably relates to Port Royal des Champs near Versailles (from 1626 Port Royal de Paris), a French Cistercian abbey which under its abbess from 1602, Angelique Arnauld (d 1661), was a centre of Jansenist reform. The source from which this copy has presumably been translated, and its author and exact date, are not known.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript translation, [late 19th century], of a Rule relating to the Abbey of Port Royal, France. Incomplete. The contents are: Small part of the Constitutions of the Abbey; Advice to the Mistress of the Novices; The manner of conferring the novice's habit; Thoughts on the ceremony of vesture; The manner of receiving women at their profession; Thoughts on the ceremony of profession; Spirit of the Monastery of Port Royal; Regulations for the children.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.
Physical characteristics:
The folios of the manuscript are numbered 178-288.
Finding aids:
Collection level description available in reading room at King's College London Archives.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Presented to King's College London by the Hon Vera Sanders.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred to King's College London Archives from the Ecclesiastical History Library, King's College.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: brief description in King's College London Manuscripts and Private Papers: A Select Guide (1982); Alexander Sedgwick, Jansenism in Seventeenth-Century France: Voices from the Wilderness (1977), ch 1 and p 114.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2001