Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale, VII D 46, second half of the 15th century (N).

Description

Paper manuscript, 325 x 225 mm. 217 ff. Two ff. seem to be missing between ff. 2 and 3, as well as 4 and 5, containing parts of the list of contents. The numbering is later.

Content
  • ff. 1ra–15ra: List of rubrics.

  • ff. 16ra–17rb: Prologus magistri Mathie by Mathias Lincopensis.

    (Prologus magistri Mathie)

  • ff. 17rb–44rb: Rev. I by St. Birgitta.

    (Revelationes)

  • ff. 44rb–64ra: Rev. II by St. Birgitta.

    (Revelationes)

  • ff. 64ra–78va: Rev. III by St. Birgitta.

    (Revelationes)

  • ff. 78va–122vb: Rev. IV by St. Birgitta.

    (Revelationes)

  • ff. 122vb–134vb: Rev. V by St. Birgitta.

    (Revelationes)

  • ff. 134vb–170vb: Rev. VI by St. Birgitta.

    (Revelationes)

  • ff. 171ra–184vb: Rev. VII by St. Birgitta (with a prologue present only in a few other manuscripts, such as New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 498, where it is crossed out).

    (Revelationes)

  • ff. 185ra–185rb: Preface to Rev. VIII from Epistola solitarii ad reges by Alfonso of Jaén

    (Epistola solitarii ad reges)

  • ff. 185rb–211vb: Rev. VIII by St. Birgitta.

    (Revelationes)
Dating
  • Likely dating: first half of the 15th century. St. Birgitta is called sancta in the rubrics, putting the canonization as the terminus post quem.
Provenance
Literature

Kraft, Salomon. 1929. Textstudier till Birgittas revelationer. (KÅ 29.) Diss. Uppsala, p. 58, note 4.

Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones lib. I cum prologo magistri Mathie. 1978. Carl-Gustaf Undhagen (ed.). (SFSS, Ser. 2, Latinska skrifter VII:2.) Stockholm, pp. IX, 118–120 (MS N). Available at Litteraturbanken.

Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones lib. VII. 1967. Birger Bergh (red.). (KVHAA & SFSS, Ser. 2, Latinska skrifter VII:5.) Uppsala, pp. 54, 58–60, 68 f., 89 ff. (MS N). Available at Litteraturbanken.

Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones lib. VIII. 2002. Hans Aili (ed.). Stockholm, pp. 9, 31 f. (MS N). Available at Litteraturbanken.

Schück, Herman. 1901. Några anmärkningar om Birgittas revelationer. (KVHAAH 33; NF 13:1). Stockholm, p. 54, note 59.

Literature on provenance

Dizionario Ecclesiastico. 1953, 1958. Sotto la direzione dei Rev. Mi Mons. A. Mercati, Mons. A. Pelzer..., vol. I pp. 1068 f., vol. III, pp. 54 f.

Enciclopedia Italiana. 1929–1939. I–XXXVI. Milano, Roma. IX 54–55, XIV 825, XXIV 254, XXVI 234.

Guerreri, Guerriera. 1941. Il fondo Farnesiano. Napoli.

Hall, Frederick William. 1913. A Companion to Classical Texts. Oxford, p. 332.

Leyh, Georg. 1957. Handbuch der Bibliothekswissenschaft. 2. Aufl. III:2, pp. 510, 515 f., 522.