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Add MS 40076
- Record Id:
- 032-002091785
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002091785
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000051.0x0002ec
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100181357573.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 40076
- Title:
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Rule and Privileges of the Poor Clares
- Scope & Content:
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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 approved by Innocent IV. The text is prefaced by a description of the original and its bulla, and is certified by two notaries (ff. 5v, 6r); written in Latin, the text beginning, 'Tenorem quarundam literarrum...'; dated 5 July 1420.
ff. 6v-12r: A copy of the same Bull, translated into Italian, beginning, 'Clemente... a perpetua memoria della cosa. Hauemo facto notare...'
ff. 12v-19v: Ordinances additional to the Rule of the Poor Clares, directed to be read every two months; written in Italian and arranged in 14 chapters, beginning, 'Nel nome del nostro segnore miser Yhesu Christo. Questo ordinatione infrascripte sono fatte…'
ff. 20r-23r: Directions for the celebration of liturgical offices, written in Italian and arranged in nine chapters, beginning, 'A tutte le hore canoniche prima sia sonata la campana magiore...'
ff. 23v-27r: A set of letters of Cardinal Philippe de Cabassole (b. 1305, d. 1372) to the General and Provincials of the Franciscan Order, confirming the rules for the government and visitation of the houses of Poor Clares promulgated by Joannes Minius de Muro and confirmed by Arnaldus a Pelagrua in 1317; written in Latin; dated Montefiascone, 19 May 1370.
ff. 27v-32r: A copy of the same set of letters, translated into Italian, beginning, 'Philippo… Tra tutte gli alter solicitudine...'
ff. 32r-33r: A set of instructions for visitors of houses of the Poore Clares, written in Italian, beginning, 'Li monasteri di questa religione...'
ff. 33v-34r: A set of letters of Pope Eugenius IV to Jacobus de Primaditiis of Bologna, Vicar General of the Observantine Franciscans, authorising him to visit the houses of Poor Clares and allow certain dispensations from the Rule; written in Latin, beginning, 'Eugenius... ordinis tui presertim...'; dated Rome, 5 February 1446.
f. 34v: A letter of Johannes de Alemania to Johannes Marchetus, quoting a privilege of Pope Nicholas V, permitting Poor Clares not attached to a house to enter monasteries of their order; written in Italian and Latin, beginning, 'Auiso la paternita nostra...'; undated [possibly 1447].
ff. 34v-35v: The privilege of Pope Nicholas V (quoted in the item above), written in Latin, beginning, 'Nicolaus... Digna reddimur attentione'; dated Rome, 5 March 1447.
f. 35v: An extract from a papal bull, the 'bulla aurea' of Pope Sixtus IV (made in 1479), written in Latin, beginning, 'Et ne propter monasteria monialium...'
f. 36r: An extract from a papal bull, the 'mare magnum' of Pope Sixtus IV (made in 1474), written in Latin, beginning, 'Ceterum ne si ratione parrochialium ecclesiarum…'
The manuscript contains a number of later additions:
ff. 37r-38r: A set of letters of Pope Eugenius IV to Jacobus de Primaditiis of Bologna (see ff. 33v-34r), translated into Italian, beginning, 'Eugenio... hauendo noi sollicita cura...'
ff. 38r-39r: The privilege of Pope Nicholas V (see ff. 34v-35v), translated into Italian, beginning, 'Nicolao... Noy siamo cum degna attentione...'
Decoration:
Three historiated initials in colours and gold, with foliate extensions, depicting St Clare, holding a lily and a book (ff. 1v, 7r), and Pope Clement VI (f. 6v).
Two decorated initials in colours and gold, with foliate extensions (ff. 12v, 20r).
Initials in red with purple pen-flourishing, or blue with red pen-flourishing (ff. 1r-23r). Plain initials in red or blue (ff. 23v-39v). Cadels and initials highlighted in yellow.
Display script (ff. 1r, 6v). Decorated catchwords (ff. 10v, 20v, 30v).
Paraphs in alternating red and blue ink. Rubrics.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002091785
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002091785
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100181357573.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Italian
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1446
- End Date:
- 1448
- Date Range:
- 1446-1448
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 235 x 165 mm (ff. 1-36); 175 x 140 mm (ff. 37-39), written in two columns.
Foliation: ff. ii + 39 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end); f. i is a paper flyleaf affixed with a bookplate on the verso; f. ii is a paper flyleaf affixed with a bookplate on the recto; ff. 37-39 are inserted parchment leaves, of a smaller size than the rest of the volume.
Collation: Gatherings of 10.
Catchwords.
Script: Gothic cursive (ff. 1r-36v); Humanistic cursive (ff. 37r-39v).
Binding: Post-1600. Brown calfskin (Italian, 17th- or 18th-century), blind-tooled, the Crucified Christ on the upper cover and the Virgin and Child on the lower cover.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Northern Italy.
Provenance:
The Poor Clares convent of S. Maria de Rosate, Bergamo: inscribed 'Regula et Ordinationes Monasterii sancte Marie de Rosate ordinis beate Clare de Pergamo', in a 15th or 16th century hand (f. 36v).
Thomas Bateman (b. 1821, d. 1861), English antiquary and archaeologist: his bookplate (f. i verso); his sale, Sotheby's, 31 May 1893, lot 1750.
Sir John Arthur Brooke (b. 1844, d. 1920), 1st Baronet of Almondbury: his bookplate (ff. ii recto); his sale, Sotheby's, 2 June 1921, lot 1204 (see note, f. [i] recto); purchased by the British Museum for £21, together with Add MSS 40074-40079.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum, 1950), pp. 23-24.
Brian Barber, 'Working in 'The Cause of Bibliomania Throughout the World': Sir Thomas Brooke (1830-1908), a Yorkshire Businessman-Bibliophile', Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 90 (2018), 158-77 (p. 174).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)