Port Royal de Paris, Abbey

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 KCLCA Port Royal
Held at	: King's College London College Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/ ›
Full 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 & 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.

Finding aids:

Collection level description available in reading room at King's College London Archives.

Archival Information

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.

Allied Materials

Related material:

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Description Notes

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.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Jan 2001