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The Medieval Church · founded 1084; customs written c. 1121
The Customs of the Grande Chartreuse
Bruno of Cologne and the early Carthusians · c. 1030–1101
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What it is
The arrangements of a house where each monk lives in a separate cell with a garden, meets the others chiefly in choir, and copies manuscripts as his work.
Why it lasted
The Carthusian order was founded on these and has been said never to have needed reform, because it never departed from them.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
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