SANCTES, P. artist . The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine. ILLUMINATED CHARTER OF RELIGIOUS PROFESSION. Parma, 1768. 335 x 455 mm. (13 1/8 x 17 3/4 in.); MINIATURE IN COLORS AND GOLD, depicting St. Catherine of Alexandria in a richly brocaded robe kneeling before the Virgin and Child, who places a ring on her finger, the scene flanked by St. Augustine with books and mitre and St. Jerome with book and lion, the scene represented on the top of a baroque altar of red and green marble, flanked by a priest and a deacon, the text of the document presented as an inscription in gold ink on the front of the altar; the whole within a border of gold foliage with flowers in shades of blue and rose, incorporating a coat of arms; signed by the artist below the border at left: "P. Sanctes Parma Pinxit & Inv." Rubbed, considerable flaking of pigments, occasional smudges, taped to old mat . From at least the time of St. Benedict, it was customary for candidates for religious profession to submit written statements of their vows. The rites for the consecration of virgins or the profession of women religious found in Italian pontificals not only include provision for each candidate's formal pronouncement of her vows, in terms similar to those given here, but they also often add instructions for a ceremony in which each candidate laid the charter of her profession on the altar. The present document is a splendid example of such a formal charter of religious profession. The Latin text reads: "I, Sister Maria Eleanora, make profession and offer myself to Almighty God, to Blessed Mary ever Virgin, to Blessed Augustine, Catherine and Jerome, and to all the saints of God, and I promise obedience, chastity and poverty, and to live without anything of my own until death, according to the Rule of Blessed Augustine, and the order of saints, and the dispensation of the great doctor Jerome, making this vow in your presence, Domina Maria Aloysia, abbess of this convent of St. Catherine, and of your successors, 5 December 1768." The Hieronymite order, active in Italy and Spain from the fifteenth century through the eighteenth, observed the Rule of St. Augustine, supplemented by provisions from the writings of St. Jerome and the rules of other religious orders. Very little is known concerning the feminine branch, although the present document provides evidence that there were convents of Hieronymite nuns in Italy in the eighteenth century. The community joined by Maria Eleanora was surely that of St. Catherine in Parma, a convent of Augustinian canonesses first recorded in the fourteenth century and dissolved in 1810.
SANCTES, P. artist . The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine. ILLUMINATED CHARTER OF RELIGIOUS PROFESSION. Parma, 1768. 335 x 455 mm. (13 1/8 x 17 3/4 in.); MINIATURE IN COLORS AND GOLD, depicting St. Catherine of Alexandria in a richly brocaded robe kneeling before the Virgin and Child, who places a ring on her finger, the scene flanked by St. Augustine with books and mitre and St. Jerome with book and lion, the scene represented on the top of a baroque altar of red and green marble, flanked by a priest and a deacon, the text of the document presented as an inscription in gold ink on the front of the altar; the whole within a border of gold foliage with flowers in shades of blue and rose, incorporating a coat of arms; signed by the artist below the border at left: "P. Sanctes Parma Pinxit & Inv." Rubbed, considerable flaking of pigments, occasional smudges, taped to old mat . From at least the time of St. Benedict, it was customary for candidates for religious profession to submit written statements of their vows. The rites for the consecration of virgins or the profession of women religious found in Italian pontificals not only include provision for each candidate's formal pronouncement of her vows, in terms similar to those given here, but they also often add instructions for a ceremony in which each candidate laid the charter of her profession on the altar. The present document is a splendid example of such a formal charter of religious profession. The Latin text reads: "I, Sister Maria Eleanora, make profession and offer myself to Almighty God, to Blessed Mary ever Virgin, to Blessed Augustine, Catherine and Jerome, and to all the saints of God, and I promise obedience, chastity and poverty, and to live without anything of my own until death, according to the Rule of Blessed Augustine, and the order of saints, and the dispensation of the great doctor Jerome, making this vow in your presence, Domina Maria Aloysia, abbess of this convent of St. Catherine, and of your successors, 5 December 1768." The Hieronymite order, active in Italy and Spain from the fifteenth century through the eighteenth, observed the Rule of St. Augustine, supplemented by provisions from the writings of St. Jerome and the rules of other religious orders. Very little is known concerning the feminine branch, although the present document provides evidence that there were convents of Hieronymite nuns in Italy in the eighteenth century. The community joined by Maria Eleanora was surely that of St. Catherine in Parma, a convent of Augustinian canonesses first recorded in the fourteenth century and dissolved in 1810.
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