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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Les Devoirs d'une Soeur de L'hôpital manuscript codex
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0323
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(8 volumes)
Date: 1704
Language of Material:
French
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Collection consists of a set of rules, written in cursive by a single hand for the conduct of a charity hospital, run by a
community of nuns. The manuscript includes chapters entitled "De la Prudence, De l'application, De l'amour du Travail, Connoissance
des verite Chretiennes and La Patience" among others. Each chapter includes suggestions for implementation and "practique."
The final chapter contains "Le Directoire et Regle generalle pour la communeaute des soeurs officieres de l'hopital general
maison de Sainte Louis," possibly the Hôpital Saint Louis in Paris, founded by Henry IV in 1607.