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Harley MS 3480

Record Id:

040-002049311

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049311

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ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3480

Title:

Catherine of Siena, Lettere

Scope & Content:

Contents:

86 letters of Catherine of Siena,preceded by a titulus: ''Incipiunt epistole gloriose virginis beatissime k[a]terine desenis recollecte per reverendum in christo p[at]rem do[mi]num stephanum de senis priore[m] monasterii sancte Marie de gratiis p[...]pe papiam ordinis cartuse. Questo fu nellanno Mccclxxvi laquale io scripsi'.

ff. 2r-3r To Pope Gregory XI, in Avignon 1376 (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 233-235, T238/G9/DT80).

ff. 3r-v An answer to Gregory XI, in Avignon (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 215-218, T231/G7/DT77).

ff. 3v-4v To Pope Gregory XI in Avignon (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 192-194, T255/G13/DT71).

ff. 4v-5v To Pope Gregory XI in Avignon (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 212-214, T233/G8/DT76).

ff. 5v-7r To Pope Gregory XI, at Corneto (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 269-273, T252/G11/DT88).

ff. 7r-8r To Pope Gregory XI in Rome (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 288-291, T285/G14).

ff. 8r-9v To Pope Urban VI (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 55-59, T346/G19).

ff. 9v-11r To Pope Urban VI, on 30 May 1379, in Rome (after the capture of Castel Sant’Angelo; Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 204-207, T351/G20).

ff. 11r-12r To Pope Urban VI (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 215-218, T302/G16).

ff. 12r-13v To Pope Urban VI (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 350-353, T364/G21).

ff. 13v-14v To Pope Urban VI (The last letter to Pope Urban VI; Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 354-357, T370/G22).

ff. 14v-17v To Charles V, King of France, 6 May 1379 (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 171-176, T350/G187).

17v-20v To Louis I, King of Hungary (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 236-242, T357/G188).

ff. 20v-22v To Queen Giovanna of Naples, 6 May 1379 (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 166-170, T348/G317).

ff. 22v-24v To Queen Giovanna of Naples (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 222-227, T362/G318).

ff. 24v-26r To Cardinal Buonaventura da Padua, the General of the order of St Augustine, in Florence (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 127-130, T334/G30).

ff. 26r-28v To Carlo di Durazzo (or Charles d’Anjou called ‘Carlo della Pace’) (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 301-306, T372/G189).

ff. 28v-30v To the Standard-Bearers of Rome and four signori mantenitori of the Republic of Rome (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 157-161, T349/G196).

ff. 30v-32v To the Priori dell’Arti and the Gonfaloniere of Justice of the People and Commune of Florence (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 120-124, T337/G199).

ff. 32v-34v To the Defenders of the People and the City of Siena (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 307-311, T311/G203).

ff. 34v-36r To the Lord Priors of the People and Commune of Perugia (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 182-186, T339/G205).

ff. 36r-37r To Piero Gambacorta, in Pisa (Noffke, Letters, I, pp. 60-63, T149/G193/DT22).

ff. 37r-39r To Alberigo da Barbiano, captain general of the Company of San Giorgio, and to the other corporals, 6 May 1379 (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 162-165, T347/G219).

ff. 39r-42r To Onorato Gaetani, Count of Fondi (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 329-335, T313/G192).

ff. 42r-45r To Frate Raimondo da Capua (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 364-370, T373/G102).

ff. 45r-46r To Frate Raimondo da Capua (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 88-90, T333/G100).

ff. 46r-47r To Frate Raimondo da Capua, in Pisa (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 41-43, T330/G99).

ff. 47r-50r To Frate Raimondo da Capua, in Genoa (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 228-235, T344/G101).

ff. 50r-51v To Raimondo da Capua, in Rome (Noffke, Letters, III, pp. 147-150, T295/G96; the edition does not indicate Harley MS 3480 as a source for this letter).

ff. 51v-53r To Frate Raimondo da Capua and others of his company, in Avignon (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 90-94, T219/G87/DT65).

ff. 53r-54v To Frate Raimondo da Capua (Noffke, Letters, I, pp. 82-90, T273/G97/DT31).

ff. 54v-56r To Frate Raimondo da Capua, in Avignon (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 166-170, T211/G88/DT70).

ff. 56r-57r To Don Giovanni dalle Celle, in Vallombrosa (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 35-38, T322/G71).

ff. 57r-58v To the abbot general of Monteoliveto Maggiore, while he was in the contado of Siena (Noffke, Letters, III, pp. 270-274, T33/G72).

ff. 58v-59r To Brother Guglielmo d’Inghilterra and Frate Antonio da Nizza, at Lecceto (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 29-30, T326/G127).

f. 59r To Bartolomeo Serafini da Ravenna, Carthusian, Prior of Gorgona, in Rome, 15 December 1378 (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 27-28, T323/G54).

ff. 59r-60r To the abbot of Monteoliveto Maggiore, near Siena (Noffke, Letters, III, pp. 110-113, T34/G73).

ff. 60r-61r To Brother Guglielmo d’Inghilterra (or William Flete) at Lecceto (Noffke, Letters, III, pp. 120-123, T227/G126; the edition does not indicate Harley MS 3480 as a source for this letter).

ff. 61r-63v To Giovanni, a carthusian Monk of the Monastery of Santa Croce in Rome (Noffke, Letters, III, pp. 252-257, T201/G61).

ff. 63r-64v To Frate Andrea da Lucca, Frate Baldo, and Frate Lando, at Spoleto (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 31-34, T327/G135).

ff. 64v-66r To Frate Antonio da Nizza, at Lecceto (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 78-81, T328/G130).

ff. 66r-69v To Don Pietro da Milano, Carthusian (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 91-98, T315/G57).

ff. 69v-70r To Matteo di Fazzio Cenni, Rector of the Casa della Misericordia in Siena (Noffke, Letters, III, pp. 44-45, T63/G139)

ff. 70r-70v To Matteo di Fazzio de Cenni (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 180-181, T57/G140).

ff. 70v-71v To the Eight of War, in Florence (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 195-197, T230/G197/DT72).

ff. 71v-72r To Frate Tommaso dalla Fonte, in Siena (Noffke, Letters, III, pp. 143-144, T98/G107).

ff. 72r-74r To Frate Francesco Tebaldi of Florence, on the Island of Gorgona (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 110-114, T150/G62)

ff. 74r-77r To Frate Francesco Tebaldi (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 48-54, T154/G63).

ff. 77r-79v To Frate Matteo di Francesco Tolomei of the Order of Preachers (Noffke, Letters, III, pp. 76-81, T169b/G85).

ff. 79v-80v To Mariano, priest of the Casa della Misericordia in Siena, while he was in Monticchiello (Noffke, Letters, I, pp. 56-59, T261/G49).

ff. 80v-82v To Giovanni di Bindo, Nicolo di Ghida, and other monks of Monteoliveto Maggiore (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 132-137, T189/G52/DT84).

ff. 82v-85r To some novices at Monteoliveto in Perugia (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 152-156, T203/G81).

ff. 85r-87r To the Prior and Brothers of the Company of Discipline of the Virgin Mary in Siena (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 324-328, T321/G144).

ff. 87r-89r To Frate Guasparre da Genova, a Franciscan Tertiary (Noffke, Letters, III, pp. 105-109, T245/G122).

ff. 89r-89v To a religious person in Florence (Noffke, Letters, I, pp. 159-161, T92/G305/DT19).

ff. 89v-93r To Raynaldo da Capua (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 265-270, T343/G236).

ff. 93r-94v To Andreasso Cavalcabuoi, Senator of Siena (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 82-84, T338/G211).

ff. 94v-96r To Francesco da Montalcino, Doctor of Civil Law (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 22-26, T5/G225).

ff. 96r-97v To Pope Gregory XI, in Avignon (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 61-64, T206/G5/DT63).

ff. 97v-100r To Pope Gregory XI in Avignon (Noffke, Letters, I, pp. 244-251, T185/G1/DT54).

ff. 100r-102v To Pope Gregory XI, in Avignon (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 243-248, T239/G10/DT81).

ff. 102v-104v To Pope Gregory XI, after his arrival in Rome (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 298-302, T209/G2).

ff. 104v-106r To Pope Gregory XI, 16 April 1377 (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 343-347, T270/G12).

ff. 106r-108r To Pope Urban VI, in Rome, 18 September 1378 (Noffke, Letters, III, pp. 213-217, T305/G17).

ff. 108r-109v To Pope Urban VI, 5 Octobre 1378 (Noffke, Letters, III, pp. 283-286, T306/G18).

ff. 109v-111v To Charles V, King of France (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 219-223, T235/G186/DT78).

ff. 111v-113v To Cardinal Iacopo Orsini (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 160-165, T223/G28).

ff. 113v-114v To Pierre d’Estaing, Cardinal of Ostia (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 259-265, T7/G23).

ff. 114v-117r To Cardinal Pietro Corsini of Florence, in Avignon (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 95-101, T177/G29/DT61).

ff. 117r-120v To three Italian cardinals (Noffke, Letters, III, pp. 218-225, T310/G31).

ff. 120v-122r To Louis, Duke of Anjou (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 224-227, T237/G190/DT79).

ff. 122r-125r To Queen Giovanna of Naples, 7 October 1378 (Noffke, Letters, III, pp. 287-292, T312/G315).

ff. 125r-128v To Queen Giovanna of Naples (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 5-11, T317/G316).

ff. 128v-131v To Bernabo Visconti of Milan (Noffke, Letters, I, pp. 131-139, T28/G191/DT17).

ff. 131v-134v To Regina della Scala, wife of Bernabo Visconti (Noffke, Letters, I, pp. 204-210, T29/G319/DT18).

ff. 134v-137r To Bartolomeo della Pace (Bartolomeo Smeducci da Sanseverino) (Noffke, Letters, I, pp. 184-190, Gardner I/DT52).

ff. 137r-139v To Don Gugliemo, Prior General of the Carthusians (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 466-471, T55/G53).

ff. 139v-143r To Don Christofano, Carthusian monk at the Monastery of San Martino in Naples (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 582-592, T335/G56).

ff. 143r-147r To Jacomo Tondi, Carthusian monk of Pontignano (Noffke, Letters, III, pp. 59-66, T39/G55).

ff. 147r-149r To Don Niccoloso di Francia, Carthusian of Belriguardo in Bologna (Noffke, Letters, III, pp. 70-75, T169a/G85).

ff. 149r-151v To Pietro di Giovanni di Viva of the Carthusian Monastery at Maggiano (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 639-644, T287a/G75).

ff. 151v-152v To Don Giovanni dei Sabbatini of Bologna and Don Taddeo dei Malavolti of Siena, Carthusian Monks (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 171-174, T187/G60).

ff. 152v-154r To Frate Guisto, Prior of Monteoliveto Maggiore (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 355-359, T8/G82).

ff. 154r-155v To Don Pietro da Milano, Carthusian (Noffke, Letters, IV, pp. 44-47, T331/G58).

ff. 155v-157v To Giovanni di Bindo di Doccio, monk of Monteoliveto (Noffke, Letters, II, pp. 619-623, T76/G76).

ff. 157v-159v To certain monks of Monteoliveto Maggiore (To Frate Nicolo da Ghida, Frate Giovanni Zerri, and Frate Niccolo di Jacomo di Vanuzzo; Noffke, Letters, III, pp. 23-29, T35/G74).

Decoration:

White vine initial in colours and gold (f. 2r). Coloured initials in blue. Paragraph marks in blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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032-002045828
040-002049311

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Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3480 : Catherine of Siena, Lettere

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3481]/040-002049311

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Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Italian
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1450

End Date:

1474

Date Range:

2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 290 x 215 mm.

Foliation: ff. 160 (+ 1 unfoliated paper and 1 parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated parchment ruled leaves after f. 159 + 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end).

Script: Humanistic.

Binding: Post-1600 Harleian binding.

Custodial History:

Origin: Florence, Italy.

Provenance:

Inscribed '140' (ff. 159v, 160).

A monastic library founded or endowed by the Guicciardini (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 173-74).

John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Harley on 13 February 1723/4.

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley '13 die Februarij 1723/4' (f. 1).

Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 3480.

Edmund G. Gardner, Saint Catherine of Siena: A Study in the Religion, Literature, and History of the Fourteenth Century in Italy (London: J.M. Dent, 1907), pp. xii, 407-11, etc. (transcriptions of letters and reproductions of some folios).

Robert Fawtier, Sainte Catherine de Sienne: essai de critique des sources: Les oeuvres de Sainte Catherine de Sienne, Bibliothèque des Écoles Francaises d’Athènes et de Rome, 135 (Paris: Boccard, 1930), p. 41.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 162, 173-74.

Suzanne Noffke (trans. and ed.), The Letters of Catherine of Siena, 4 vols (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000).

Material Type:

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Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Catherine of Siena, mystic and saint, 1347-1380,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120966249

Places:

Florence, Italy