- An
abbess (Latin:
abbatissa) is the
female superior of a
community of nuns in an abbey. In the
Catholic Church (both the
Latin Church and
Eastern Catholic)...
-
Reproduction (by
Sebastiano Paoli [it]) of the seal of "Ivditta
abbatissa",
depicted on the
obverse veiled and
holding a book with a cross; on the reverse...
- deliciarum, c. 1180. The
description in
Latin reads: "Herrat
hohenburgensis abbatissa post
Rilindam ordinata ac
monitis et
exemplis eius instituta".
These are...
-
modern Poland in 1996,
which names Mathilde on the
reverse (+MATHILD
ABBATISSA ASNI DENSIS),
indicates that
Mathilde found such high
favour with Henry...
- Rievallensis,
Wolbero S.
Pantaleonis 196
Richardus S.
Victoris 197
Hildegardis abbatissa 198
Adamus Scotus,
Petrus Comestor,
Godefridus Viterbiensis 199 Joannes...
- bene
solvit Regi dans
regum Mathildt haec
crysea dona
Abbatissa bona; quae rex
deposcit in
aevum Spiritus
Ottonis pauset caelestibus...
- autem. a.—annus. A.—Accursius or Albericus. A:—Amen. ab.—Abbas. abbāssa—
Abbatissa. abd.—Abdiæ. ābl'a—ambula. abl'o—ablatio. ābl'o—ambulatio. abl'om—ablationem...
-
information on her
family is
included in the
following lines: "Amma (
abbatissa) Damiana, a solitary, the
mother of
Athenogenus [Athenogenes], the bishop...
- least, of the text can be reconstructed:
EDITA REGALE GENERE NOBILIS ABBATISSA THEOPHANU HOC
SIGNUM DEDIT "Born of a
royal family,
noble Abbess Theophanu...
-
Cathedral treasury were made. The
Latin inscription ISTAM CRUCEM (I)DA
ABBATISSA FIERI IUSSIT (Abbess Ida
ordered this
cross to be made)
allows the creator...
