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Add MS 10767
- Record Id:
- 032-002108575
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002108575
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000042.0x000265
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100181356355.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 10767
- Title:
- Caterina Vigri, Le sette armi spirituali, and other devotional works
- Scope & Content:
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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 Caterina Vigri (b. 1413, d. 1463), also known as Catherine of Bologna, an Italian Poor Clare, mystic and artist.
Contents:
f. 1r: An added inscription in Italian, written in a 17th-century hand, 'Opera MSS. d’una serva di Dio per una Religiosa monaca nel monastero del Corpo di Christo di Ferrara, nominate Suor Lucia Mascharini morta Santa et sue revelazioni'.
ff. 2r-48v: Caterina Vigri, Le sette armi spirituali (Catherine of Bologna, The Seven Spiritual Weapons), written in Italian, beginning, 'Com reuerentia prego per lo dolce e suaue amore...'
ff. 48v-54v: A letter of Caterina Vigri to the abbess of the convent of Corpus Christi in Mantua, with an account of how she made this book and performed many miracles, written in Italian, beginning, 'Venerabile e dilecte i christo madre e sorelle carissime del ordine de Sancta Clara', with a colophon, 'scripta nel monasterio de corpo christo in bologna Adi 2 de setembre 1463 Deo gracias. Finis. Orate pro me' (f. 54v), which probably refers to the letter rather than the preceding text (see Arthur, Women, Art and Observant Franciscan Piety, p. 212, n. 14).
ff. 54v-55r: Pseudo-Lentulus, Epistula ad senatum Romanum de Iesu Christo, written in Latin, beginning, 'Apparuit temporibus istis et ad huc est homo...'
f. 55r-v: A Latin prayer, beginning, 'Beautus franciscus pater noster erat homo...'
ff. 55v-57v: Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary, written in Latin.
f. 58r: An added note, written in Italian, 'Divote orazioni / in verso e'n prosa / ms c. 1500'.
ff. 59r-100v: A collection of devotional works in Italian verse and prose.
ff. 101r-136v: A set of verses in Italian, beginning, 'L'inmensa alta virtu esti esse da vostri'. The text is written on the rectos only.
Decoration:
1 large puzzle initial in blue with red pen-flourishing (f. 59r). Plain initials in red and blue.
Initials highlighted in red. Rubrics.
An added pencil drawing of a figure kneeling before a cross (f. 100v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002108575
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002108575
- 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_100181356355.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Italian
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 155 x 110 mm (written space: 105 x 75 mm).
Foliation: ff. 138 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Collation: Mounted on modern paper guards.
Catchwords.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Brown half-leather binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
Matteo Luigi Canonici (b. 1727, d. 1805), Jesuit and bibliophile: inscribed, 'from the Canonici and Sneyd Collection' (f. [iv] recto). This is the same source as Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Ital. 134, another copy of Caterina Vigri's works.
Reverend Walter Sneyd (b. 1809, d. 1888) of Denton House, Cuddleston, who purchased 915 books from Canonici's library in Italy in 1835: inscribed, 'from the Canonici and Sneyd Collection' (f. [iv] recto), the Sneyd-Canonici sale, Sotheby's, 25 June 1836, lot 119.
Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the Younger, bookseller of London, January 1837 (see the inscribed note, f. [iv] recto).
- Publications:
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The British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, 1836-1840 (London: British Museum, 1843), 1837, p. 12.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 34 (p. 29).
Kathleen G. Arthur, Women, Art and Observant Franciscan Piety: Caterina Vigri and the Poor Clares in Early Modern Ferrara (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018), pp. 26, 121, 213.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)