Conceptus statutorum pro meliori et uniformi regulae observatia in sacra congregatione Bursfeldensi per Germaniam monachorum S. Benedicti, &c.

Folio, c. 34 x 22,5 cm: [14] ff., on paper.

Sewn. In good condition (fore-edge sl. frayed).

The Bursfelde Congregation was a union of predominantly west and central German Benedictine monasteries, of both men and women, working for the reform of Benedictine practice. Named after Bursfelde Abbey (Lower Saxony), it included over 100 monasteries in west and middle Europe, a.o. (as listed in this ms.) St.-Truiden, Stavelot and Vlierbeek. It existed until the compulsory secularization of all its monasteries at the end of the 18th, and the beginning of the 19th c. The present proposal of new statutes discusses i.a. the chapters, visitations, functions of abbot, prior and master of novices, liturgy, spirituality and study, fasting, dress and haircut.