1. First of all it must be observed that none should depart from the monastery until her death. 2. Let them abstain from cursing and swearing oaths. 3. On changing the habit and rendering obedience. 4. That she reserve nothing of those things she brought with her, nor give alms by her own authority. 5. That no little girl be received except from her sixth year. 6. That each one should work not what she herself wishes, but what is commanded her. 7. That no one have a private cell. 8. That while the psalms are chanted, no one speak. 9. That no one receive anyone's daughter from the font. 10. That when the signal is given, none come too late. 11. What manner of handmaid of God she should be when she is chastised. 12. How she ought to humble herself who has done something negligently. 13.
13. That in the vigils care be taken that no one sleep. 14. How the daily task in wool-working is to be received. 15. That no one judge anything as her own. 16. That obedience be given to the mother and prioress, and that at table there be no speaking at all. 17. That at all seasons they devote two hours to reading. 18. That while sitting at work, they either meditate on holy things or keep silence. 19. That those who are noble be not exalted by their riches or by the nobility of their kindred. 20. That while the psalms are chanted, what sounds in the mouth be held in the heart. 21. On the guarding of the oratories. 22. That another's sin be not concealed. 23. Nothing to be received secretly. 24. How those should be distinguished who either commit theft or lay hands upon one another. 25.
25. That by the care of the prioress the garments be made; let them be dispensed by the mother. 26. That the garments of the holy nuns be kept in one cell. 27. That no one work anything as her own. 28. What manner of person, and in what manner, the cellaress ought to be appointed. 29. In what manner they ought to use the bath. 30. What manner of prioress ought to be over the infirmary of the sick, and how the sick themselves should have a separate storeroom. 31. In what manner she should be corrected who has injured her sisters either with insults, or with curses, or with any crimes whatsoever. 32. In what manner the abbess ought to act. 33. In what manner the overseers of the monastery ought to enter within the monastery. 34. That secular men or women not enter into the monastery. 35.
35. How the abbess ought to proceed to the parlor. 36. That no banquet be held in the monastery for anyone, except for religious women coming from other places or cities. 37. In what manner the handmaid of God ought to greet her kinsfolk. 38. That the abbess never eat apart from the community except when illness compels it. 39. An admonition or protestation as to how the abbess, prioress, or cellaress ought to comply with the sick. 40. That the handmaids of God receive nothing transmitted by their kinsfolk without the counsel of the abbess; whatever is more than is needed, let it be given to those who are in want. 41. In what manner dyeing is to be done, and what kind of bedding they ought to have. 42. On featherwork and the adornment of the monastery. 43.