London, British Museum, Add. MS. 38604, a. 1470 (Ec)

Description

Some of the texts, e.g. the beginning of Sermo Angelicus, have musical notations.

Content
Dating
  • 1470.

Provenance
  • Breviary written for the use of Margarita Saluzzo entering the Birgittine monastery Maria Scala Coeli (founded in 1406) close to Genoa: “Ego soror Margarita filia Alexii Salucii ingressa sum monasterium sacre obseruantie sanetarum Marie uirginis et Brigide de Ianua nuncupatum. Et ad honorem Dei et salutem anime mee hunc breuiarium secundum ordinem nostrum pro meo usu scribi uolui”. Related to MS Dc.

    Possibly related to Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Cod. Magliabecchi cl. XXXVI:62, late 15th century (MS Dc) and Oxford, Bodl. Lib. Cod. Canonici Liturg. 49, late 15th century, 327 ff. (Cc).

    Mentioned manuscripts:
Literature

Catalogue of additions to the manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1911–1915. 1925, pp. 163 f.