Genoa, S. Gerolamo di Quarto sulla Riviera – Original Locations

Closely related to Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Cod. Lat. 32, possibly serving as vorlage. Both contain Rev. extravagans 49. One of the scribes of this manuscript, Johannes de Almania, is mentioned in a note in Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Cod. Lat. Vat. 3826 (f. 118r) together with the Abbot Ypolitus. 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 manuscript to Johannes de Almania, who made a copy together with Ludovicus. Since not all revelations are contained in the Rome, it is not certain if it served as vorlage for the whole of the Venice manuscript or part of it (for more information, see: Bergh (ed.) 1967 (Rev. VII), pp. 37 f.).

Most likely written and illuminated in Naples. Belonged to S. Gerolamo di Quarto sulla Riviera, founded by Alfonso of Jaén as an Augustinian monastery outside Genoa in 1382, but after his death in 1389 given to the Olivetans, a branch within the Benedictines. The manuscript itself might have been gifted to the monastery by Alfonso of Jaén.

Common origin with the manuscript Palermo, Biblioteca Nazionale, IV G 2 (signum P in Undhagen (ed) 1978): similar miniatures (see Lattanzi 1955; 1965, pp. 62–64 & Nordenfalk 1961, pp. 373 f., 378 ff.), which indicate an artist from Naples. The manuscript Warszawa, Biblioteka Narodowa, 3310 (Tb) probably also has the same provenance.

"It seems reasonable to suppose that a magnificent manuscript like Y was prepared for someone in a high position. There is reason to believe that it was one of the transcripts made during the canonization process at the end of the 1370's." (Undhagen (ed.) 1978 (Rev. I), p. 162.)'