{"product_id":"it-s-a-nun-s-life","title":"It’s a nun’s life","description":"\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.9pt; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: red; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: red; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eIt’s a nun’s life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; 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mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eLyon by Claude Cayne 1634\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.9pt; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e, “At the golden Lion”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.9pt; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; 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line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.9pt; font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eBound in 14\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.9pt; font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: super; mso-text-raise: 30%; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.9pt; font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e Century manuscript containing heavily abbreviated legal text. Likely a commentary on Justinian’s “Corpus Juris Civilis”. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.9pt; font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eThis handbook for \"Decalced\" Carmelite nuns is bound in a 14th Century civil law manuscript.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe pocket-sized handbook entitled \"La regle et constitutions des religieuses deschaussées\" contains daily rules for nuns in a strict Carmelite monastery, centred around prayer, poverty and fasting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Decalced\" or \"Dechaussées\" meant \"without shoes\" signifying the vows of extreme poverty that this order of Carmelite nuns embraced.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe order was founded by Saint Teresa of Avila - a Spanish nun and mystic who founded the “decalced” order following visions 👀 of Christ, an experience where an 👼 angel with a golden spear pierced her heart, and after several episodes of levitation during prayer 🙏\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Manuscript-waste binding contains a heavily abbreviated 14th Century commentary on Roman law. One passage comments on a case regarding the inheritance of slaves, who are granted freedom by a magistrate despite the inheritor son's wishes to keep them as property.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book itself was published in Lyon in 1634 and is uncommon - I have located only three copies on Worldcat (Antwerp, Rome and Paris).\u003c\/span\u003e The text describes the rules and regulations for the community of nuns. A second edition of the text followed in 1654.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-GB; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.9pt; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; font-variant: normal; color: black; text-transform: none; language: en-GB; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eOCLC 3 copies only: Antwerp, Rome, Paris (Sainte-Geneveive). 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