The Holy Rule of St. Benedict
The Rule St. Benedict wrote for his monks at Monte Cassino in the sixth century: a Prologue and seventy-three chapters on the abbot, obedience, silence and humility, the Divine Office, discipline, work and the common life. Western monasticism has lived by it ever since. Latin text in the modern critical orthography, with the English translation of Boniface Verheyen OSB (Atchison, 1902; 1949 printing), whose Scripture references are kept.
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Source: Tier B: the sixth-century text has no author copyright and the transcription circulates freely with no claim; its orthography follows the modern critical editions (Hanslik, CSEL 75; de Vogüé, SC 181–182), so it is not counted as A. Some sixty transcription typos (pastotis, delinquentiump, futum, omnimo, a doubled sentence in ch. 73…) were corrected against the tier-A witness Wölfflin, Benedicti Regula monachorum (Leipzig: Teubner, 1895; https://archive.org/details/benedictiregula00wlgoog); readings of the critical text that differ from Wölfflin's were kept. · Tier A: CCEL marks it 'Rights: Public Domain'; Verheyen died in 1923 and the 1949 printing credits no reviser.