Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashb. 896, early 15th century.

Description

Paper manuscript, 220 x 150 mm. 19 ff.

Includes the Simony office and eight extra Revelations that are normally not part of Tractatus. Ekdal (ed. 1965, p. 38) proposed that this could be a witness to an earlier version of the text, but Jönsson (ed. 1997, p. 25) believes that this collection rather shows the thematic interests of this individual compiler.

Content

  • ff. 1r–18r: Tractatus de summis pontificibus by St. Birgitta (Including: Rev. VI.63, IV.136, 49, 137–143, VII.31, VI.96, IV.144, as well as the addition of the Simony office and Rev. VI.74, 70, IV.33, 10, 5 (extract), 57, 78).

    (Tractatus de summis pontificibus)

  • f. 18v: "Humilis monachus Montisoliueti", follwed by note (see dating).

  • f. 19r: Added page, probably contemporaneous.

Dating

  • Note on 18v dates the manuscript to 1402: "Janue in Monasterio nostro Si Jeronimi di Quarto Riperie diocesis Januensis MºCCCCºIIº." However, Jönsson (ed. 1997, p. 24) believes the manuscript to be a copy.

Provenance

  • Belonged to the Birgittine monastery Maria Scala Coeli (founded in 1406), Genoa.

Literature

Ekwall, Sara. 1951. 'Quando morì'. On Giovanni and his interests in pope prophesies. Rivista di Storia della Chiesa in Italia. Rom, pp. 34–36.

Ekwall, Sara (ed.). 1965. Vår äldsta Birgittavita. (VHAAH, Historiska serien 12.) Stockholm, p. 38 (figure 7).

Jönsson, Arne. 1996. On the so-called Tractatus. Birgittiana 1, pp. 22–23.

Jönsson, Arne (ed.). 1997. St Bridget's Revelations to the popes: an edition of the so-called Tractatus de summis pontificibus. Lund, p. 7, 23–30. (Wb)