Magdalena Brice (Madeleine Brice, fl. late 16th-17th cent.)

Magdalena Brice (Madeleine Brice, fl. late 16th-17th cent.) OSM. French Minoress and member of the Longchamp community. Treasurer and chronicler (continuator of the Ansiens mémoires started by Denise de Costeblanche).

Works

• Ansiens mémoires de l'abbaie de Longchamp Ansiens mémoires de l'abbaie de Longchamp : MS Paris, Archives Nationales de France, LL 1604. For an edition, see: Sean L. Field, Pierre Moracchini & Fabien Guilloux, 'The Ansiens Memoires de l'Abbaie de Longchamp : A Seventeenth-Century Nuns' Chronicle', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 116:1-2 (2023), 143-246 [edition on pp. 166-241]. This work was started in 1600 by Sister Denise de Costeblanche, who wrote the chronicle for the period 1260-1399. Sister Madeleine Brice was probably responsible for a continuation up to 1668. See for more details the 2023 article & edition by Field, Moracchini and Guilloux.

  2023 Paris

  MS Paris, Archives Nationales de France, LL 1604. For an edition, see: Sean L. Field, Pierre Moracchini & Fabien Guilloux, 'The Ansiens Memoires de l'Abbaie de Longchamp : A Seventeenth-Century Nuns' Chronicle', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 116:1-2 (2023), 143-246 [edition on pp. 166-241]. This work was started in 1600 by Sister Denise de Costeblanche, who wrote the chronicle for the period 1260-1399. Sister Madeleine Brice was probably responsible for a continuation up to 1668. See for more details the 2023 article & edition by Field, Moracchini and Guilloux.

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