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Old polish Christmas carols by contemplative nuns (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries)

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Gwioździk J.

Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology

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2012

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issue 11

169-186

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Old Polish Christmas carols in the contemplative female orders of Benedictine nuns, Poor Clares and Carmelite nuns were written and functioned at the junction of traditions - Polish and European, lay and religious, noble and elite, monastic and folk - and also in the Polish borderlands, which exhibited great diversification in terms of nationalities, religious denominations and cultures. The numerous versions of carols confirm not only their popularity, but also the fact that they functioned in specific environments, with the mutual influence of various motives, particularly noticeable in this genre, which was susceptible to all sorts of interference. The singing of carols, including those types which were characteristic of the monastic environment, such as lullabies, religious carols, songs of the nativity and of adoration and New Year carols, was a traditional part of Christmas celebrations. Performed both as part of the liturgy and outside it, they constituted a sort of a paratheatrical spectacle, characteristic of the Baroque mentality and of the spirituality of a specific order.

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Rękopis "Księgi wszystkich spraw Konwentu Gnieźnieńskiego zakonu S. Klary [...] pilnie pisane w roku pańskim 1609" i jego zawartość

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Przybyłowicz O. M.

Hereditas Monasteriorium

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2015

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vol. 7

247-263

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The author describes the contents of one of the most valuable and most extensive (802 pages) surviving manuscripts of the Poor Clares of Gniezno. It is kept in Archdiocesan Archives in Gniezno, in the fonds Zakon Klarysek Gniezno [Poor Clares of Gniezno], no. 3. The manuscript was begun in 1609, when Dorota Bromirska was the prioress (1609–1617). We can distinguish in it characteristic features of the handwriting of several dozen people (probably the nuns); the dominant language is Polish and there are signs suggesting the manuscript was in frequent use. The manuscript is a veritable silva rerum; it combines characteristics of a chronicle, catalogue, obituary of nuns as well as inventory and description of their property. It contains information about various spheres of the convent’s activity and daily life, facts associated with the history of the convent, of Gniezno and of Poland – though that last group is the least numerous. Approximately half of the entries deal with the convent’s economy, including inspections of the property (from 1610, the most detailed is from 1615) as well as inventories from 1624, 1627, 1631, 1632, 1661, 1667, 1673, 1676, 1682, 1686 and 1689. Data about the daily life comes from inspection reports and descriptions of elections of prioresses. There is little information about customs and morals. Very little information concerns matters happening outside the convent, apart, of course, from contacts with the Franciscan Sisters of Gniezno, who were spiritual guardians of the Poor Clares

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Źródła rękopiśmienne do dziejów polskich klarysek w czasach stanisławowskich (1764-1795)

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Pięta Z.

Archiwa, Biblioteki i Muzea Kościelne

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1974

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vol. 29

272-279

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Dokumenty i dyplomy klasztoru klarysek w Gnieźnie. Sposoby uwierzytelniania dokumentów w praktyce kancelaryjnej konwentu św. Klary. Inwentarz

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Przybyłowicz O. M.

Archiwa, Biblioteki i Muzea Kościelne

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2021

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vol. 115

359-418

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The aim of this article is to present and analyse the original files and parchment diplomas of the Poor Clares of Gniezno as regards office practice, including the methods of authenticating documents in the monastery and the degree of literacy of the nuns themselves. The documents are held by the Archdiocese Archives in Gniezno. The material and topical division of archives was also presented. The query covered parchment diplomas from the Gniezno Diplomas collection and documents from loose files kept in the AKM – A Cap section. The loose files - are over 2,500 units and over 4,000 cards. 161 originals were selected, including three parchment diplomas. All of them are included in the Appendix. Documents were authenticated by signatures and/or stamping a seal by paper or on paper. Two types have survived – one with a pointed-oval shape, indicating the medieval provenance of the seal, which has analogies to the well-known stamps of other female monasteries, e.g. Poor Clares in Skala and Cracow. The second type is a round stamp that began to appear on documents from the second decade of the 18th century. The dominant language is Polish, moreover, there are individual files written in Latin – mainly letters to clergy, but also to laypeople. Eight material categories were distinguished: contracts – the largest part of the collection – 77, settlements – 25, postings – 16, letters – 11, confirmations – 8, certificates – 7, permits – 7, others – 10. They were authenticated by 31 abbesses. In the 17th century, two superiors prepared individual files themselves, because we are dealing with the identification of hands thanks to their signatures. On the other hand, there are seven such cases in the next century, and one in the 19th century. In addition, two documents were prepared by a sister who served as a secretary in the first half of the 18th century, and one by a regular nun in 1762. It should be assumed that the remaining documents came from the hand of public writers, prosecutors of the monastery of the Poor Clares or Franciscans from the nearby Gniezno convent, with which the sisters maintained – as is clear from the records of monastics and provinces – good relations.

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Celem artykułu jest prezentacja oraz analiza oryginalnych akt i dyplomów pergaminowych klarysek gnieźnieńskich znajdujących się w zasobie Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie pod kątem praktyki kancelaryjnej wypracowanej przez stulecia w klasztorze. Przedmiotem zainteresowania był także sposób uwierzytelniania dokumentów oraz problematyka piśmienności samych zakonnic. Kwerendą objęto dyplomy pergaminowe ze zbioru Dyplomy Gnieźnieńskie oraz dokumenty pomieszczone w zespole Akta Kapituły Metropolitalnej seria Luzy Zakon Klarysek (A Cap. Luzy O 14-52). To ponad 2500 jednostek i ponad 4000 kart. Wyselekcjonowano 161 oryginałów, w tym 3 dyplomy pergaminowe. Wszystkie zostały umieszczone w Aneksie do artykułu. Dokumenty były uwierzytelniane podpisami i/lub odbiciem tłoka pieczętnego przez papier lub na papierze. Zachowały się dwa typy – jeden o kształcie ostroowalnym, wskazujący na jego średniowieczną proweniencję, analogiczny do znanych z publikacji tłoków pieczętnych innych klasztorów żeńskich, m.in. klarysek w Skale i Krakowie. Drugi typ to tłok okrągły, który zaczął być stosowany na dokumentach wspólnoty od drugiej dekady XVIII stulecia. Językiem dominującym dokumentów jest polski, ponadto zdarzają się pojedyncze akta sporządzone w języku łacińskim – to głównie listy do osób duchownych, rzadziej świeckich. Wyróżniono 8 rzeczowych kategorii akt: kontrakty, które stanowią największą część zbioru – 77, ugody – 25, nadania – 16, listy – 11, potwierdzenia – 8, poświadczenia – 7, zezwolenia – 7 oraz inne – 10. Zostały one uwierzytelnione przez 31 ksień. Jak wynika z analizy duktów pisma, dwie przełożone z XVII stulecia przygotowały pojedyncze akta własnoręcznie. Natomiast z kolejnego stulecia pochodzi siedem takich przykładów, w XIX wieku zaś ksieni sporządziła jeden dokument. W XVIII wieku niektóre dokumenty wystawiła też siostra sprawująca urząd sekretarki, a w jednym przypadku dukt pisma wskazuje na szeregową zakonnicę (1762). Należy przypuszczać, że większość dokumentów wspólnoty przygotowywali pisarze publiczni bądź urzędnicy klasztoru, np. prokuratorzy dóbr lub też franciszkanie z pobliskiego konwentu gnieźnieńskiego, z którymi klaryski były w dobrych relacjach, jak wynika z treści akt i klasztoru i prowincji.

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„[…] von unß gewischen an das neuere Nunnin Klostir”. Księcia Bolka II Małego nieudana próba fundacji klasztoru sióstr klarysek w Świdnicy

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Klemenski M. A.

Średniowiecze Polskie i Powszechne

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2021

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vol. 13

26-45

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In this article, Marcin Klemenski discusses the problem of the failed attempt to found a monastery of the Poor Clare nuns in Świdnica in the years 1358-1360. In the four extant documents from this period, kept in the Wrocław State Archives and the Archdiocesan Archives, issued by Bolko II the Small, Duke of Świdnica-Jawor, and Bishop Przecław of Pogorzela, one can find information about this attempt. Klemenski conjectures that Bolko II could have been planning to found a monastery for his sister Constance, Duchess of Głogów, who was a Poor Clare nun in Stary Sącz. However, the foundation did not take place due to the death of Constance in 1360. Another reason for the failure was the epidemic in Świdnica that year and the outbreak of the conflict between Duke Bolko II and the Wrocław chapter related to the invasion of the city of Grodków.

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Der Artikel behandelt das Problem der nicht zustande gekommenen Gründung eines Klarissenklosters in Schweidnitz (Świdnica) in den Jahren 1358-1360. In den vier erhaltenen Dokumenten aus dieser Zeit, die im Staatsarchiv bzw. Erzdiözesenarchiv Breslau aufbewahrt werden und vom Herzog von Schweidnitz-Jauer, Bolko II. dem Kleinen, und Bischof Preczlaw von Pogarell stammen, befinden sich Angaben zu dieser Gründung. Der Autor des Artikels vermutet, dass Bolko II. das Kloster mit Blick auf seine Schwester Constantia, Herzogin von Glogau, gründen wollte, die als Klarissin in Alt Sandez (Stary Sącz) lebte. Die Gründung kam jedoch nicht zustande, weil Constantia 1360 verstarb, in demselben Jahr in Schweidnitz eine Epidemie ausbrach und der Konflikt zwischen dem Herzog Bolko II. und dem Breslauer Domkapitel sich im Zusammenhang mit dem Überfall auf die Stadt Grottkau (Grodków) zuspitzte.

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Tematem niniejszego artykułu jest problem niezrealizowanej fundacji klasztoru sióstr klarysek w Świdnicy w latach 1358–1360. W zachowanych czterech dokumentach z tego okresu, przechowywanych we wrocławskich Archiwum Państwowym oraz Archiwum Archidiecezjalnym, wydanych przez księcia świdnicko-jaworskiego Bolka II Małego oraz biskupa Przecława z Pogorzeli, można znaleźć informacje o tej fundacji. Autor artykułu przypuszcza, że Bolko II mógł ufundować klasztor z myślą o swej siostrze Konstancji, księżnej głogowskiej, która była klaryską w Starym Sączu. Do fundacji nie doszło jednak z powodu śmierci Konstancji w 1360 roku, jak również na skutek panującej w tym roku w Świdnicy epidemii oraz wybuchu konfliktu księcia Bolka II z kapitułą wrocławską związanego z najazdem na miasto Grodków.

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„Pamięć obłóczyn kożdy probantki”. Ceremonia obłóczyn w świetle rękopisu Modus suscipiendi novitias ad habitum S. Clarae z 1600 r. z klasztoru klarysek gnieźnieńskich

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Przybyłowicz O. M.

Hereditas Monasteriorium

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2013

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vol. 2

179-194

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The subject of the analysis is the hitherto unknown in the literature of the subject, the oldest on the Polish lands full veiling ceremony, the adoption of novices – Modus suscipiendi novitias ad habitum S. Clarae (hereinafter: Modus 1600). The manuscript, formerly belonging to the Poor Clares convent in Gniezno, and presently stored in the local Archdiocesan Archive, is dated on the year 1600. The early date of emergence, the minuteness of the ceremony (including musical notation), and brief description of the rite in Polish make it extremely valuable and interesting. The aim of the article is to reconstruct the course of the analysis of the veiling ceremony, having public and solemn character in the opposite to the proffesion vows made in the cloister. The rule of St. Clare from 1253 laconically mentions about receiving habit. Among the Italian Clares, the veil ceremony was known at least since the 15th century. In Poland, first information about ceremony of veiling comes from the second half of 16th century, and ceremonies codifying it became widespread in 17th century. The essential elements of the ceremony included: giving a candle to the novice, the offertory, including placing the ring on the altar, effectuation of the habit and veil, cutting hair, and finally – replacing secular clothing with ecclesiastical robes. In the spiritual area, the manuscript Modus 1600 and other ceremonials present elements of St. Clara’s spirituality and the motive of marriage with the Bridegroom – Jesus.

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Economy-related written sources of the Franciscans (and partially of the Poor Clares’) in Bohemia and Moravia, ca. 1230 – ca. 1450

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Felskau C.-F.

Hereditas Monasteriorium

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2013

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vol. 3

27-54

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The article examines the surviving written sources of economic content or relevance related to the Medieval Friars Minors on the territory of present day Czech Republic, which covers the core lands of the Bohemian crown in the Middle Ages, i.e. Bohemia and Moravia. Starting with the Order’s initions and its idealistic attitude towards poverty and the refusal of material goods, it gives then an overview of the most fundamental internal regulations and external, merely Papal decisions on the treatment of money, land and goods as means of ensuring the economic survival and success of the Europewide proliferated Order. The following section provides a brief review of the historiography dealing with the economic practice of the friars, preceeded by a summary of their provincial organization and distribution of settlements. This is followed by a methodological discussion of the relationship between activies of economic relevance, their categorization in terms of economic weight as well as content and the chance of their tradition. Then, the author discusses the most important sources and source collections (published or not) which attribute significantly to the investigation of the Friar’s economic activies; this part of the study aims to provide the basis for an inventory of sources still to come. In the last paragraph, some of the most meaningfull sources, namely the urban books of Brno, the charter book of the Order’s double monastery of Cheb/Eger, and the scattered documentation on the Prague double monastery are presented in order to exemplify goals and limits of present and future examination and pathes of interpretation; these examples demonstrate the wide range of investigation, oscillating between a one-dimensional evaluation of a specific type of source and the bundling of multiple evidences taken from a broad variety of sources, each of them characterized by its own validity; taking the relatively poor tradition of many Franciscan houses into account, the article finally intends argues to adopt an laborious inter-textual approach for gaining at least to some extend a ‘holistic’ picture where researchers have to deal with a lack of a premium source traditions and, otherwise, to integrate the analysis of surviving serial sources into a wider frame of inter-institutional comparisons in order to assess the relative weight of specific economic transcations of one individual Franciscan house.

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Samowole i swawole żołnierzy frejkompanii Franciszka Teodora Denhoffa w dobrach klarysek krakowskich pod koniec XVII w.

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Gąsiorowska P.

Hereditas Monasteriorium

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2013

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vol. 3

143-154

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In the 1690’s, in Umianowice and Wołoszczowice –two villages owned by the convent of the Cracow Poor Clares, located in the Sandomierz voivodeship– soldiers from the foreign infantry regiment, belonging to the Wiślica starosta Franciszek Teodor Denhoff, were stationing at the so-called winter quarters. The starosta had claimed the right to those villages as well as the revenue they generated. Hence, with his consent, the soldiers demanded payments in grain or money, and apart from that mercilessly pillaged and physically abused the subjects of the convent. In addition, they would rape women, and they forced an entry to a noble house, disregarding the fact that these felonies were punishable by death. Also, drunk soldiers sneered at the Catholic religion, mocking the ceremonies connected with the celebration of Corpus Christi. These events ended up in court, when the nuns, the nobility, and the peasants from the plundered villages sued the violators. The ones charged with the heaviest crimes were condemned to infamy and beheading, but it remains unknown whether the sentence was ever carried out. Starosta Denhoff was punished by kondemnata (a sentence in absentia). He was also obliged to pay compensation for all the damage caused. The losses were made up for a few years later by Denhoff ’s widow, Katarzyna Potocka.

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Archiwalia poklasztorne, urzędowe, kasacyjne i pokasacyjne w zasobie Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie (klasztory powstałe i/lub skasowane przed 1850 r.)

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Mizerka J.

Hereditas Monasteriorium

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2015

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vol. 6

163-236

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The article examines an inventory of monastic records kept in the Archdiocesan Archives in Gniezno. It covers archive documents from the Monastic Records section as well as archival units spread across various fonds in the archives. The Monastic Records section was established in the 1970s following a separation of monastic records from the Archives of the Metropolitan Chapter fonds. The section also encompasses archive documents from the Monastery of the Norbertine Sisters in Strzelno, which were transferred from Strzelno to Gniezno on Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński’s orders in 1961. The remaining part of the inventory is made up primarily of records from the period of dissolutions in the 18th and 19th centuries kept in the Archives of the Metropolitan Chapter fonds as well as records of the various parishes. The whole collection of archive documents is very rich and varied in terms of its contents, and concerns religious orders established in the Archdiocese of Gniezno before the 1850s.

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Old polish Christmas carols by contemplative nuns (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries)

Rękopis "Księgi wszystkich spraw Konwentu Gnieźnieńskiego zakonu S. Klary [...] pilnie pisane w roku pańskim 1609" i jego zawartość

Źródła rękopiśmienne do dziejów polskich klarysek w czasach stanisławowskich (1764-1795)

Dokumenty i dyplomy klasztoru klarysek w Gnieźnie. Sposoby uwierzytelniania dokumentów w praktyce kancelaryjnej konwentu św. Klary. Inwentarz

„[…] von unß gewischen an das neuere Nunnin Klostir”. Księcia Bolka II Małego nieudana próba fundacji klasztoru sióstr klarysek w Świdnicy

„Pamięć obłóczyn kożdy probantki”. Ceremonia obłóczyn w świetle rękopisu Modus suscipiendi novitias ad habitum S. Clarae z 1600 r. z klasztoru klarysek gnieźnieńskich

Economy-related written sources of the Franciscans (and partially of the Poor Clares’) in Bohemia and Moravia, ca. 1230 – ca. 1450

Samowole i swawole żołnierzy frejkompanii Franciszka Teodora Denhoffa w dobrach klarysek krakowskich pod koniec XVII w.

Archiwalia poklasztorne, urzędowe, kasacyjne i pokasacyjne w zasobie Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie (klasztory powstałe i/lub skasowane przed 1850 r.)