Venice, The Camaldulian monastery S. Michele di Murano – Original Locations

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.