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1. Add MS 10767

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Add MS 10767
Title:
Caterina Vigri, Le sette armi spirituali, and other devotional works
Scope & Content:
This is a composite manuscript, made up of three parts: Part 1, ff. 1-57 (with historic foliation in ink in the lower margin of the rectos, ff. 354-410); Part 2, ff. 59-100; Part 3, ff. 101-136. Part 1 contains Le sette armi spirituali (The Seven Spiritual Weapons), a visionary work written by...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 21984

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Add MS 21984
Title:
Cicero, De senectute, written by Ippolita Maria Sforza
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains De senectute, a Latin treatise on the subject of aging and death, by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC). The manuscript's colophon indicates that it was written by Ippolita Maria Sforza (b. 1445, d. 1488), daughter of Francesco I Sforza (b. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1458
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 22754

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Add MS 22754
Title:
Angela da Foligno, Lume amoroso divino
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Lume amoroso divinio, a collection of texts written in Italian, recounting the visions and discourses of Angela da Foligno (b. c. 1248, d. 1309), an Umbrian lay penitent, mystic and visionary. Accounts of Angela's experiences were compiled by her confessor, who subse...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1451-c 1457
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 40076

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Add MS 40076
Title:
Rule and Privileges of the Poor Clares
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6r: The Rule of the Poor Clares, a copy of the Bull of Clement VI, confirming that of Clement IV (made 31 December 1266), which in turn confirms and recites the Rule of the Poor Clares, as drawn up by Rinaldo, Bishop of Ostia and Velletri (afterwards Pope Alexander IV), and ap...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1446-1448
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add Roll 61174

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Add Roll 61174
Title:
Notarised copy of the will of Cecilia Foscari
Scope & Content:
A notarised copy of the will of Cecilia, daughter of John Veneno and widow of Frederico Foschari, made by Caesar Ziliolus, notary and secretary to the doge of Venice. 5 May 1567, bearing the notarial mark of Caesar Ziliolus and signatures. The original will was made by Jacopo Grasolarius of St...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1567
Extent:

1 roll

6. Harley MS 2920

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Harley MS 2920
Title:
Collection of texts relating to the order of service, made for an Italian house of Poor Clares
Scope & Content:
A collection of texts relating to the order of service, probably made for an Italian house of Poor Clares, as suggested by repeated references to the Order's founders St Francis and St Clare of Assisi (e.g. ff. 10v, 16r, 27r). The manuscript was written in two parts: the first part (ff. 1-24) wa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1518-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume