Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Lat. III 117 (collocazione 2371), a. 1415 (V).
Paper manuscript, 577 ff. Also known as Lat. chart. (VII Ascetici) 32 (in Bergh 1967, pp. 35 ff., Undhagen (ed.) 1978, pp. 153–156 and in Valentinelli II 1869, pp. 204 f.).
pp. 1a–6b: Prologus magistri Mathie by Mathias Lincopensis.
(Prologus magistri Mathie)pp. 7a–10b: List of rubrics in Rev. I.
pp. 10b–72b: Rev. I by St. Birgitta.
(Revelationes)pp. 72b–74a: Quindecim orationes. "Jncipiunt orationes beate Brigide vidue principisse neritie de regno suetie ut edocta fuit a christo diversis Diversimodis horis horarre (sic)" (see Valentinelli II 1869, pp. 204 f.).
(Quindecim orationes)pp. 75a–76b: List of rubrics in Rev. II.
pp. 76b–118a: Rev. II by St. Birgitta.
(Revelationes)pp. 119a–255b: Rev. III by St. Birgitta.
(Revelationes)pp. 256a–272a: Rev. IV by St. Birgitta.
(Revelationes)pp. 273a–295a: Sermo angelicus by St. Birgitta.
(Sermo angelicus)pp. 296a–325a: Rev. V by St. Birgitta.
(Revelationes)pp. 326a–424(?): Rev. VI by St. Birgitta.
(Revelationes)pp. 425a–453b: Rev. VII by St. Birgitta.
(Revelationes)pp. 454a–470b: Epistola solitarii ad reges by Alfonso of Jaén.
(Epistola solitarii ad reges)pp. 471a–543b: Rev. VIII by St. Birgitta.
(Revelationes)pp. 544: Rev. extravagans 49 by St. Birgitta.
(Revelationes)pp. 545a–561b: Regula Salvatoris by St. Birgitta together with Constitutions and a papal bull.
(Regula Salvatoris)pp. 562a–577a: Officium sancte Birgitte by Birgerus Gregorii (Birger Gregersson), after which follows a note which is identical in MS Aa, Milano, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Cod. D XIV 23: [I]N isto libro continentur reuellaciones ... sancte ... brigide ... que fuit ... uxor comitis Andree (!) de regno supradicto ... Cum quo ipsa habuit duos filios et unam filiam (!) ... Et fuit ... canonizata per papam Bonifatium nonum ... anno ... Mccco lxxxxio ... claret multis ... miraculis. Et ubique locorum ubicumque imploratur adoratur aut honoratur eius ymago sancta atque figura.
(Officium sancte Birgitte (Birgerus Gregorii))
- 1415. The date 16th May 1415 was given after the completion of the second half of the manuscript by the scribe "Lodouicus" (Ludovicus, Louis).
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Belonged to S. Michele di Murano, a Camaldulian monastery in Venice, but where it was originally written is unknown. Moved to Biblioteca Marciana in the early 19th century, see Undhagen (ed.) 1960, p. 48, footnote 1 & 2.) Closely related to Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Cod. Lat. Vat. 3826, which – in a corrected form (in the Birgitta editions referred to as r2) – possibly served as the original for the Venice manuscript. Both contain Rev. extravagans 49. Two known scribes: Johannes Noen. de Almania (first half) and Ludovicus (second half), as well as a third scribe which inserted two loose pages containing text that was missing from Prologus magistri Mathie. Johannes de Almania is mentioned in a note in the Città del Vaticano manuscript: "Ego frater ypolitus abbas indignus concedo istum librum Sancte Brigide fratrj Johannj de alamania toto tempore vite sue. Cuius proprietas remaneat illj monasterio in quo dicti fratris Johannis celebrabitur obitus. Anno dominj Mccclxxxxviiij." The Abbot Ypolitus of the monastery of S. Gerolamo di Quarto sulla Riviera (founded in 1382 by Alfonso of Jaén) outside Genoa apparently gave the Città del Vaticano manuscript to Johannes de Almania, who made a copy together with Ludovicus (see discussion in Aili (ed.) 1992, pp. 24 f.).
The manuscript is, together with Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, D 89 sup., an early witness to the Quindecim orationes, which were falsely ascribed to St. Birgitta.
Mentioned manuscripts: Link to scribe(s):
Birger Gregerssons Birgitta-officium: Officium Sancte Birgitte. 1960. Carl-Gustaf Undhagen (ed.). (SFSS, Ser. 2, Latinska skrifter, VI.) Diss. Uppsala, pp. 48–51, 118 ff.
Mittarelli, Johannis Benedicti. 1779. Bibliotheca codicum manuscriptorum monasterii S. Michaelis Venetiarum prope Muranum. Venice, pp. 191–195.
Sancta Birgitta. Opera minora. Vol. II. Sermo angelicus. 1972. Sten Eklund (ed.). Uppsala, pp. 11, 25–29 (MS V). Available at Litteraturbanken.
Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones lib. I cum prologo magistri Mathie. 1978. Carl-Gustaf Undhagen (ed.). (SFSS, Ser. 2, Latinska skrifter VII:2.) Stockholm, pp. 153–156 (MS V). Available at Litteraturbanken.
Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones lib. IV. 1992. Hans Aili (ed.). Stockholm, pp. 24 f. (MS V). Available at Litteraturbanken.
Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones lib. VII. 1967. Birger Bergh (red.). (KVHAA & SFSS, Ser. 2, Latinska skrifter VII:5.) Uppsala, pp. 35–40, 50 f., 89 ff. (MS V). Available at Litteraturbanken.
Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones extravagantes. 1956. Lennart Hollman (ed.). Uppsala, p. 96.
Tjäder, Jan-Olof. 1968. Review of Bergh (ed.) 1967. Nordisk tidskrift för bok- och biblioteksväsen 55, p. 25.
Valentinelli, Josephus. 1869. Bibliotheca manuscripta ad S. Marci Venetiarum. II. Venice, pp. 204 f. Available at Archive.org.