Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Revelations

Authors

• Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, approximately 1303-1373 (https://viaf.org/viaf/51685861)
• Cherubino, da Siena, frate, -1484 (https://viaf.org/viaf/232426123)

Other related names

• Mercantile Library of Philadelphia, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84004686.html)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 240
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1586226
• deRicci: 1

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Italian

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This manuscript is a partial copy of the Revelationes of Bridget of Sweden, from the fifth book through part of the eighth book, followed by a few leaves of a somewhat garbled copy of Cherubino da Siena's Regola della vita spirituale. The texts were written in Italy in the fifteenth century by multiple hands, with the main text mostly in humanistic cursive. Rubrication has been added sporadically in the beginning of the Revelationes (through fol. 94v).

Notes

• Outermost and innermost bifolia of each gathering are parchment, the rest of the bifolia are paper
   
• Water damage on many of the folios
   
• Twentieth-century paper flyleaves front and back; second front flyleaf is fifteenth-century paper ruled in ink
   

Extent

Ii+176+i; 290 x 210 mm bound to 300 x 220 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (10), 2-12 (14), 13 (12, +1 +6)

Support

Mixed

Catchwords

Vertical catchwords in ink, lower right last verso, except for quires 3, 11, and 12, whose catchwords are horizontal, lower center last verso

Binding

Twentieth-century half calf over original wooden boards; blind-stamped spine title, St. Brigitta, Revelationum

Layout

Two columns of thirty-eight to thirty-nine lines; frame-ruled in hard point; second front flyleaf is ruled in ink but is not inscribed, in the same manner as fol. 176v; written area: 215 x 140 mm

Decoration

Blank spaces of six to nine lines, preceding each chapter, used for rubrics in red through fol. 94v, and after that left blank; spaces left for decorated initials, two to six lines, with guide letters, with a few initials and paragraph marks in red in fols. 11r-19v

Script

Humanistic Cursive

Text written by multiple hands; rubrics written by multiple hands in both humanistic bookhand and Gothic rotunda; final leaves (fols. 173-176) also written in a humanistic bookhand

Provenance

• Sotheby's (catalog entry from a Sotheby's sale, lot 333, inside front cover); Mercantile Library of Philadelphia, the contents of which was turned over to the Free Library of Philadelphia; stamp of the Mercantile Library on fols. 2r and 176r; pencil note on the inside of back cover reads: "Macdonald 3/72 repair CN from the Mercantile Library"
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2100, no. 1.

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Humanistic
• Italy
• Devotion

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Revelationes]; incipit: [L]iber iste questionu[m] dividitur per interogationes et sub dividitur ... [fol. 1r]; explicit: et dixit ad ang[e]lum et ad diobolum [fol. 172v]
• fol. 173r — [Regola della vita spirituale]; incipit: [L]a prima reg[o]la [ora?] rechiama devota or[azi]one ... [fol. 173r]; explicit: ... qua[r]to alaparte d'lorone[?] [fol. 176r]

Decorations

• fol. 11r — Three-line red initial I
• fol. 13v — Three-line red initial I
• fol. 18r — Three-line red initial I
• fol. 18r — One-line red initial I
• fol. 19r — Three-line red initial I (x3)
• fol. 31v — Three-line red initial D
• fol. 31v — Three-line red initial Q
• fol. 39r — Three-line red initial O
• fol. 39v — Three-line red initial I
• fol. 40v — Three-line red initial U
• fol. 41v — Three-line red initial M
• fol. 42r — Three-line red initial F
• fol. 43r — Three-line red initial M
• fol. 85v — Three-line red initial M
• fol. 88v — Three-line red initial Q