Slides used by Colman Ó Clabaigh during his paper (For the Love of God and Neighbour: the lifestyle of the Canons of St Thomas’s Abbey) at Dublin City Council's medieval symposium on The Abbey of St Thomas the Martyr, 14 October, 2017. Listen to the podcast of the paper at http://historyhub.ie/thomasabbey

1. For the Love of God &
Neighbour:
The Lifestyle of the
Canons of St Thomas’s
Abbey
The Abbey of St Thomas the
Martyr Conference
Dublin, 14 October, 2017
Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB
Glenstal Abbey
Illust. ‘A Regular Canon of St Victor’,
from Mervyn Archdall, Monasticon Hibernicum
(Dublin, 1786)

2. 1. Abbey of St Victor Paris (1655)
2. Hugh of St Victor (c. 1096–
1141)
Leiden, Bibliotek der Rijksuniversiteit, MS Vucanius
45, f. 130

3. Trinity College Dublin, MS
250
St Thomas’s Abbey, Dublin
late 13th–14th Cent.

4. 1. Liturgical Calendar,
July/August
2. Obituary notice for
John Raynolds
(16th cent.)
TCD MS 250, f.4r

5. Roger Bacon OFM, Doctrina
Tabularum
TCD MS 250 f. 5
Alexander of Villedieu OFM
Massa Compoti
TCD MS 250 f. 7

6. Brief monastic regulations &
daily prayers
TCD MS 250, f. 7

7. Preface to the Martyrology
TCD MS 250 f. 34 r
Martyrology of Usuard
TCD MS 250 f. 36v

8. Hugh of St Victor (? d. 1141)
Exposition of the Rule of St
Augustine
TCD MS 250, f. 73 v
Richard of St Victor (d. 1173)
TCD MS 250, f. 95

9. Liber Ordinis Sti Victoris– The
Customary of St Victor
Chapter headings
TCD MS 250, f. 102r
Beginning of Customary
TCD MS 250, f. 103r

10. Monastic sign language
‘For the sign of bread, make a
circle with both thumbs and the
two next fingers –
Pro signo panis, fac circulum cum
utroque pollice et hiis duobus
digitis qui sequuntur’
TCD MS 250, f. 121 r

11. Miscellaneous monastic
regulations
TCD MS 250, 147v
On the proper manner of
celebrating Mass
TCD MS 250, f. 150v

12. Gospel and Epistle readings for
Mass throughout the Liturgical
Year
TCD MS 250, f. 153r

13. The Rule of St Benedict
TCD MS 250 f. 166
Marginal commentary
TCD MS 250, f. 167

14. The Rule of the Friars Minor
St Francis of Assisi (1224)
TCD MS 250 f. 178

15. Quo elongati (1230)
Gregory IX
TCD MS 250 f. 179v
Exiit qui seminat (1279)
Nicholas III
TCD MS 250 f. 181

16. The Dublin Anchorite’s Rule
TCD MS 250, f. 187
Letter to an Anchorite
TCD MS 250, f. 189

17. Hugh of St Victor
On the Instruction of Novices
TCD MS 250, f. 219

18. Pseudo-Gregory
Against False Religious
TCD MS 250 f. 227v
Cornelius Drusart, Two Monks
Fighting (1690)

19. Benedict XII,
Constitution on the Recalling of
Apostates (1335)
TCD MS 250, f. 239

20. Lothar of Segni– Innocent III (d.
1216)
On the Misery of the Human
Condition
TCD MS 250, f. 241

21. Facetus
TCD MS 250, f. 253
Daniel of Beccles
Urbanus Magnus–The Book of
the Civilized Man
TCD MS 250, f. 254

22. St Bernard of Clairvaux preaching in Chapter
Jean Fouquet (d. 1480)

23. Chapter House, St Mary’s Abbey, Dublin (Cistercian)
Image courtesy of Dr Rachel Moss

24. Stress marks
TCD MS 250 f. 36v