Johannes de Almania

Johannes de Almania ("Noen. de Almania", early 15th century) was a scribe, apparently of German descent, who received Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat.lat.3826, a. 1399 from Ypolitus, abbot of S. Gerolamo di Quarto sulla Riviera in Genoa, and copied this manuscript in a corrected form, now called Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Lat. III 117 (collocazione 2371), a. 1415 together with Ludovicus and an unknown scribe. It is unknown what "Noen." abbreviates. The name Johannes de Almania recurs in another Birgitta manuscript, likely referring to the same person, in Roma, Biblioteca Casanatense, 1445, a. 1404, which has the following annotation on c. 49r: "Explicit liber celestis revelacionum Dei vultus quintus pro fratrem Iohannes de Almania M°CCCCIIII°." A manuscript from Pavia (Biblioteca Universitaria, Fondo Aldini 35) was produced by a certain Johannes de Alania (?), which is also likely to be a reference to the same person: "Scriptus per fratrem Johannem de alania (?) in conventu sancti Andree de Vultera MCCCCIII." If this is correct, then he resided at the time in the Olivetan monastery of Saint Andrew (Sant'Andrea Apostolo) in Volterra.