This new edition, based on some two-dozen manuscripts - including more than a half-dozen hitherto unedited manuscripts with extensive series of newly identified statuta - replaces the classic edition by J.-M. CANIVEZ (Statuta Capituli Generalis Ordinis Cisterciensis, v. I [1933]). Beginning with the first recoverable General Chapter statutes and continuing through the statutes of the year 1201, the edition consists of a lengthy Introduction followed by three main parts: I. Annual Statuta; II. Systematic Collections; III. Local Collections. Each part is preceded by an Introduction and Description of Manuscripts; and the individual statuta (in Latin) are accompanied by notes (in English). The volume concludes with a Bibliography and extensive Indices (Monasteries and Religious Communities, Persons, Places, Principal Subjects).