# Regimen Animarum

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'''''Regimen Animarum''''' is a [Latin](/source/Latin) [codex](/source/codex) that was written in 1343 for the [Archbishop of Canterbury](/source/Archbishop_of_Canterbury). It contains the Office of the Feast of [Corpus Christi](/source/Corpus_Christi_(feast)).

==History==
''Regimen Animarum'' is a Latin book that was written in 1343<ref name="office of new feast" />{{rp|13}} by a Frenchman called "Beche."<ref name="office of new feast" />{{rp|18}} It was written for the [Archbishop of Canterbury](/source/Archbishop_of_Canterbury).<ref name="office of new feast">{{cite journal|last1=Mathiesen|first1=Thomas J.|title=The Office of the New Feast of Corpus Christi" in the Regimen Animarum at Brigham Young University|journal=The Journal of Musicology|date=Winter 1983|volume=2|issue=1|pages=13–44|jstor=763576}}</ref>{{rp|13}} It contains the Office of the Feast of [Corpus Christi](/source/Corpus_Christi_(feast)) and talks about its history. It also contains teachings and [sacraments](/source/sacraments) used in the [Catholic Church](/source/Catholic_Church). It was intended to be a summary of the Catholic beliefs and an English clerical manual.<ref name="office of new feast" />

The ''Regimen Animarum'' is not original content, but is the work of various Latin manuals combined.  "Beche," therefore, is most likely the compiler of the books and not the scribe that wrote them. Of the three books that are found in the ''Regimen Animarum,'' his name appears in two of them.<ref name="office of new feast" />{{rp|18}}

The ''Regimen Animarum'' includes many of the offences and abuses that occurred in the church at this time. The book makes mention of rising resistance to the [Pope](/source/Pope). The book, therefore, anticipated the [Protestant Reformation](/source/Protestant_Reformation) that would come later.<ref name="office of new feast" />{{rp|18}}

The book remained with private owners until recently.<ref name="office of new feast" />{{rp|15}} The ''Regimen Animarum'' is currently in the [L. Tom Perry Special Collections](/source/L._Tom_Perry_Special_Collections) at [Brigham Young University](/source/Brigham_Young_University).<ref name="office of new feast" />{{rp|14}}

==Format and composition==
The original book has 211 leaves and has pages made of parchment.<ref name="catalogBYU" /> It has nineteen gatherings of pages.<ref name="office of new feast" />{{rp|16}}  Before the text of ''Regimen Animarum'' begins, there are four leaves which contain the New Office of the Corpus Christi.<ref name="catalogBYU" /> Each page is written with two columns and between 48 and 50 lines each. It also contains various pages of [sheet music](/source/sheet_music).<ref name="catalogBYU">{{Cite archival metadata
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}}</ref> All headings in the book are red, and initials are in blue. The codex binding is made of [goatskin](/source/Goatskin_(material)).<ref name="office of new feast" />{{rp|14}}

The book is a compilation of three books. The first section of the book talks about the state of the [soul](/source/soul). It discusses dangers to the soul as well as the importance of [reverence](/source/reverence_(emotion)) and spiritual [rituals](/source/rituals).<ref name="office of new feast" />{{rp|17}} The second part of the book is about teaching and exhortations of the Catholic Church.<ref name="catalogBYU" /> The third part talks about the sacraments.<ref name="catalogBYU" />

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/SCMisc/id/11769 ''Regimen Aminarum''] at [https://sites.lib.byu.edu/sc/ L. Tom Perry Special Collections], [Brigham Young University](/source/Brigham_Young_University)

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