Roma, Casa Generalizia dei Francescani, Liber de miraculis b. Brigide (Codex Panisperna), a. 1378 (Pa).

Description

Paper manuscript, 54 ff. 300 x 218 mm.

Content

  • ff. 1ra–20ra: Vita sancte Birgitte (Vita retractata, BHL 1334b) by Petrus of Skänninge and Petrus of Alvastra.

    (Vita sancte Birgitte (Vita retractata, BHL 1334b))
  • ff. 20ra–21vb: Littera Nicolai comitis Nolani ad Alphonsum de Hispania super miracula aliquot b. Brigide.
  • ff. 21vb–23vb: Miracula aliquot in vita, revelationes de morte b. Brigide.
  • ff. 23vb–24vb: Miracula post mortem in Roma.
  • ff. 25ra–30rb: Miracula post mortem in Neapoli.
Dating
  • 18th of November 1378.
Provenance

  • Belonged to San Lorenzo, a Clarissan monastery in Panisperna with close ties to the Birgittines. Earlier kept in Archivio del Collegio di S. Antonio. An annotation on f. 52vb identifies the scribe as Nicolaus Misner (also called “Vyogeler”), a clerk from Brandenburg who at this time was in Rome: "finita et scripta anno domini .Mo. ccco. lxxviij. in octava sancti Martini per manus Nicolai Misner alias dicti Vyogeler clerici Brandenburgensis diocesis tunc temporis in Roma existentis."

    Known to Consalvo Durante, who gives the following description (ed. 1628, II, pp. 483.): "Praesens Opusculum suppeditarunt nobis RR. Moniales Sancti Laurentij in Panisperni de Urbe, in quo habentur Miracula plura a B. Birgitta edita Romae, Neapoli ac etiam in Regnis Poloniae, & Suetiae, quae in Codicibus hactenus impressis desiderantur, quod quidem Opusculum, quoniam rudi stilo, prout ferebat illa aetas, conscriptum est, non pauca in eo invenimus obscura, ignotaque sic, ut ad eorum intellegentiam illa omnia, quae temporis diuturnitate erant depravata, & immutata, emendare, ac restituere operosum fuerit, ut mirum non sit, si nomina quaedam propria aliquarum Civitatum, Oppidorum, & Parrochialium Ecclesiarum Regnorum Poloniae, & Suetiae, in quibus Miracula illa edita sunt, non ita forsitan fideliter ex Antiquissimo illo Codice M.S. desumi potuerint. Cetera autem, quae impolito, rudique stilo scripta sunt, non immutavimus ad antiquitatis venerationem." For a thorough description of the manuscript's history see Collijn (ed.) 1924–1931, pp. XXI f.

    Mentions person: Link to scribe(s):
Literature

Collijn, Isak (ed.). 1924–1931. Acta et processus canonizacionis beate Birgitte. (SFSS, Ser 2., Latinska skrifter I.) Uppsala, pp. XXI–XXVI (MS Pa). Available at Litteraturbanken.

Collijn, Isak (ed.). 1946. Liber de miraculis beate Brigide de Suecia: Roma 1378: Codex s. Laurentii de Panisperna in Roma : Suecice et Britannice præfatus. Copenhagen. (Facsimile with introduction.)

Fröjmark, Anders. 1992. Mirakler och helgonkult. Diss. Uppsala: Univ., pp. 33–34. Available online at DiVA.

Hess, Cordelia. 2008. Heilige machen im spätmittelalterlichen Ostseeraum: die Kanonisationsprozesse von Birgitta von Schweden, Nikolaus von Linköping und Dorothea von Montau. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, pp. 130–133.

Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones extravagantes. 1956. Lennart Hollman (ed.). Uppsala, p. 86 (MS Pa).