Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ottob. lat. 90, 2548–2554, a. 1391 (?).

Description

Fol. 340 x 250 mm. 133 ff. First folio missing.

Content
Dating
  • Likely in 1391, when Magnus Petri had 16 copies of the Liber attestacionum made.
Provenance
  • Orginally copied for the use of a cardinal. Later owners: Probably Guglielmo Sirleto, Ascanio Colonna (from 1588), Duke Giovanni Angelo Altaemps (from 1611), then Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (from 1689; later pope Alexander VIII), sold by his nephew Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni the younger to pope Benedict XIV.

    Closely related to Stockholm, Kungliga biblioteket, Holmiensis A 14, late 14th century.

    Mentioned manuscript:
Literature

Collijn, Isak (ed.). 1924–1931. Acta et processus canonizacionis beate Birgitte. (SFSS, Ser 2., Latinska skrifter I.) Uppsala, p. XV–XVII (MS R). Available at Litteraturbanken.

Poncelet, Albertus. 1910. Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum latinorum Bibliothecae Vaticanae. Bruxelles, p. 413.

Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones extravagantes. 1956. Lennart Hollman (ed.). Uppsala, s. 86 (MS R).

Schück, Henrik. 1895. Två svenska biografier från medeltiden. I: Antiqvarisk tidskrift 5, p. 422, note 1. Available at Runeberg.