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Add MS 15710
- Record Id:
- 032-002093395
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002093395
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000044.0x00015f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165143625.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 15710
- Title:
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The Life and Miracles of St Francis of Assisi
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-247v: The Life and Miracles of St Francis of Assisi by St Bonaventura, in German translation.
f. 248r-254v: The Legend of St Francis, attributed in the text to a Friar Bartholomæus, 'do von dem nideren Kriechenland bürtig was, und was do von dem convent Corinthi' (from a monastic house in Corinth, Greece).
f. 255r-257r: A hymn to St Francis, translated from Latin to German, beginning 'Exulta Syon filia'.
Decoration:
The script and illumination of the manuscript are attributed to Sibilla von Bondorf, nun of the Clarissen Convent in Freiburg im Breisgau (b. c. 1450, d. after 1524), in 1478.
58 full-page miniatures in colours in orange frames (ff. 4r, 6v, 10r, 15r, 17r, 18v, 19v, 20v, 21v, 23r, 24v, 30v, 33r, 42r, 46v, 48v, 50v, 52v, 59v, 61v, 62v, 63v, 65r, 68r, 72v, 74r, 75r, 76v, 85r, 91v, 93r, 103r, 107v, 110v, 119r, 128v, 131r, 132r, 134r, 136r, 152v, 161r, 161v, 164v, 168r, 168v, 173r, 173v, 179r, 179v, 184r, 184v, 186v, 192r, 195r, 196r, 199r, 246v). 14 one or two column-width miniatures in colours (f. 6r, 35v 39r, 44v, 55r, 84r, 104r, 105v, 111r, 116r, 189v, 203r, 247r, 248r). 4 historiated puzzle initials (ff. 4v, 53r, 65v, 160r). Initials with foliate decoration and display script in colours (e.g., f.10v). Flowers and foliate decoration in lower margins in colours (e.g., f. 19r, 44v, 141r, 148v). Puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in both colours. Initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour or brown. Partial borders in red and blue with foliate decoration. Rubrics and highlighting in red. Cadels.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002093395
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002093395
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165143625.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1478
- End Date:
- 1478
- Date Range:
- 1478
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: paper.
Dimensions: 205 x 140 mm (text space: 135 x 95 mm).
Foliation: ff. 260 (f. 1 is a paper paste-down and f. 2 is a paper flyleaf + 7 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Pre-1600. Stamped calf-leather with painted fore-edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Swabia, Germany.
Provenance:
Written and illuminated by Sibilla von Bondorf (b. c. 1450, d. after 1524), nun of the order of St Clare, in Lower Freiburg, in 1478: a note written by Conrad de Bondorf, preacher and Franciscan friar, stating that this volume was written by sister Sibilla de Bondorf, for the use of the nuns of the second Order of St. Francis, in Lower Freiburg in 1478, under the rule of the abbess Susanna de Falckenstein (upper pastedown, f. 1v).
Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853 (see David Paisey, 'Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, anglophile and friend to Panizzi', The British Library Journal, 23 (1997), 131-53): purchased from him by the British Museum on 24 January 1846, along with Add MSS 15680-15715, for £113.80.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
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- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1846-1847 (London: British Museum, 1864), p. 13.
D. Brett-Evans, 'Sibilla von Bondorf, Ein Nachtrag', Zeitschrift für Deutsche Philologie, 86 (1967), 91-98.
Robert Priebsch, Deutsche Handschriften in England, 2 vols (in 1 vol.) (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1979), II: Das British Museum mit einem Anhang über die Guildhall-Bibliothek (first publ. as 2 vols, Erlangen, 1896-1901), pp. 140-41
Jeffrey Hamburger, Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of the Medieval Convent (Berkely: University of California Press, 1997), p. 139.
Cynthia J. Cyrus, The scribes for women's convents in late medieval Germany (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009), p. 257, n. 140.Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Nigel F. Palmer, The Prayer Book of Ursula Begerin, 2 vols (Dietikon-Zurich: Urs Graf Verlag, 2015), I, p. 485.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)