Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]







Constitutio synodalis

Incipit:

  • Quoniam symoniaca labes adeo [and then:] plerasque moniales infecit

Explicit:

  • publicari\ dyoceses\ suas\ per\

Constitutio synodalis . The vice of simony has infected female monasteries to such extent that they have developed a standing practice to request a payment for admittance of new nuns. Applications of females who refuse to pay, or cannot pay the requested price, are turned down. This sinful practice is now expressly forbidden. From now on all females who buy their admission to a monastery will be removed from that monastery to be transferred to another female order whose nuns live under a harsh style of life.

No. of pages: Fol. 192ra-rb

Incipit:

  • Quoniam symoniaca labes adeo plerasque moniales infecit ut uix aliquas sine precio recipiant in sorores, paupertatis pretextu, volentes h...us uicium palliare ... De hiis autem qui ante hoc synodale statutum recepte sunt taliter ita diximus prouidendum

Explicit:

  • ut dyocesani episcopi singulis annis hoc faciant per suas dyoceses publicari