Cistercians

Founded in 1098 as an order under the rule of St Benedictus.

Women's monasteries

* Grimminge, Beaupré
* Niewier, Abdij Syon or O.L V. ten Dale
* Abdij Loosduinen
* Roermond, Munsterabdij
* Sijsele (near Brugge), Spermalie

Men's monasteries

* Aduard (near Groningen), Bernardusabdij
* Antwerpen, Salvatorpriorij
* Monnikendam, Galilea minor
* Villers (south of Brussel), Abbaye de Villers

Unidentified cistercian manuscripts

* B-Br II 267, processionale for cistercian nuns, 15th and 16th century
* B-LVgbib Mechelen 14, Psalterium and texts of Cistercian offices, 13th century
* D-DS 975, cistercian breviary, ca 1410, from Nijmegen (CAO V, nr 657)
* F-Pm 423, Missal, 15th century
* GB-LEICu 18, Antiphonale, 16th century
* NL-DHk 74 G 31, cistercian diurnale (winter part), 1280-1290, diocese Cambrai or Luik
* NL-Zwolle, Emmanuelshuizen 19, Breviarium cisterciense, Köln (?), 1447 (CMD-NL, nr. 294, pl. 368)

Literature

* M. Sabbe, M. Lamberigts & F. Gistelinck (eds.): Bernardus en de Cisterciënzerfamilie in België. K.U. Leuven, Bibl. van de Faculteit der Godgeleerdheid. Tentoonstelling 26 oktober-8 december 1990 (Leuven 1990)
* Cîteaux 1098 - 1998: rheinische Zisterzienser im Spiegel der Buchkunst, hrsg. A. Arens et al. (Wiesbaden 1998). Catalogue to an exhibition, Landesmuseum Mainz, 22 Nov. 1998-12 Febr. 1999

A manuscript catalogue of St Bernardusabdij in Bornem is in Bornem and a copy of it is in Leuven, Bibl. Godgeleerdheid.


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