Regulations of the Cistercian Friars in the Abbey of Alcobaca, Portugal [manuscript]. 1400.

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Regulations of the Cistercian Friars in the Abbey of Alcobaca, Portugal [manuscript]. 1400.

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Consisting of Latin Calendar and medieval Portuguese is the principal text with illuminated capitals written by the friars possibly about 1400 A.D. This is the original, unpublished book.

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