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1. Add MS 10767

Reference (shelfmark):
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 22754

Reference (shelfmark):
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

3. Egerton Ch 134

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton Ch 134
Title:
Grant by Matilda of Tuscany to the monastery of St Benedict near Padua, of land in Casalittus
Scope & Content:
Grant by Matilda of Tuscany to the monastery of St Benedict near Padua, of land in Casalittus; given at Pontem Ducis, 4 November 1109, written by the scribe Ribaldo, chaplain of Matilda of Tuscany, with the signatures of Baldus the Judge, Conon, and Michael the Archpresbyter.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1109
Extent:
1 leaf

4. Egerton Ch 135

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton Ch 135
Title:
Notarial copy of a grant by Matilda of Tuscany to the monastery of St Benedict near Padua, of land in Magarino, and to the monastery's cell at Ficarole, of rights and privileges in Massa
Scope & Content:
Notarial copy of a grant by Matilda of Tuscany to the monastery of St Benedict near Padua, of land in Magarino, and to the monastery's cell at Ficarole, of rights and privileges in Massa. Originally given at Massa Castle, 13 April 1112. Bearing the notarial mark and certificate of Pietro de Ca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
between 1198 and 1212
Extent:
1 leaf

5. Harley MS 2920

Reference (shelfmark):
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