Franciscan documents. Italian, c. 1400.

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Title

Franciscan documents. Italian, c. 1400.

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. th. d. 23

Associated place

Venice

Place of origin

Italian, North (?)

Date

c. 1400

Language

Latin

(fol.1) Regula S. Francisci

(fol.65v) Fioretti di San Francesco

(fol.104) Rubric: Aliqua exempla de vita beati patris nostri Francisci et sociorum eius

(fol.142) Fioretti di San Francesco

(fol.153) Miscellaneous. The chief items are:

(fol.153) Rubric: Vita fratris Rogeri (de Provincia)

(fol.160v) Rubric: Testamentum b. francisci

(fol.161v) Rubric: Liber sancti fratris Egidii layci O.F.M.

(fol.175v) Francis of Assisi Ep. 3

(fol.177) Rubric: Narracio b. Jeronimi de quodam sanctissimo monacho cui Christus revelavit suam passionem

(fol.181) Petrus Aureoli Postilla super Apocalipsim

(fol.201v) Rubric: Passio s. Marcellini pape. Frater Laurentius de Arethe

(fol.201v) Rubric: Questiones Albini Magistri in Genesi etc.

(fol.204) Rubric: Consilium … domini johannis andree de canonica portione solvenda a fratribus minoribus et predicatoribus

(fol. 204) Colophon: frater Laurentius de Reathe Minister in provincia Sancti Antonii fecit me scribi

The MS. is fully described and the contents partly printed by A. G. Little Collectanea I (1914), British Soc. of Francisc studies V and Opuscules de Critique Historique XVIII (1914–1919) pp. 1–103.

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

v + 208 leaves

Decoration

Partial border (fol.1).

Gold initials (fol.1).

The rest flourished blue and red.

Binding

continental binding of 17th cent. speckled sheepskin, rebacked.

Provenance

Written at the order of fr. Laurentius de Reathe , 'minister in provincia S. Antonii' (i.e. Venice) (fol. 204). Rubricated by a German, as shown by phrases in the rubrics on fol. 2v, 7, 110, 119

S. Stefano, Fossanova, dioc. of Terracina (?) (see under Phillipps below)

Payne & Foss, 1848

Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792–1872) , MS. 12290, his sale, Sotheby's 6–9 June 1910 and three following days, lot 345, bought by Little for £20 10s. Described in the Phillipps catalogue as ‘Ex abb. S. Stephani de Nova Fossa’ (Fossa Nuova in the dioc. of Terracina), but without evidence for this ascription in the volume.

Given by A. G. Little , 1940.

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