Petrus Olavi, Additions to the rule of Saint Saviour

Sweden, Vadstena, 15th century

i, 14, i' leaves

230–235 × 165–170 mm

Latin

1 (pp.1–2) Knut Bosson (Natt och Dag), Letter of sanction for Petrus Olavi, 1420.

Incipit: Kanutus dei gracia Episcopus Lyncopensis Religiosis personis et nobis in christo sincere dilectis

Explicit: In premissorum autem testimonium cum sigillis dictorum conventuum in watzstenis et de consensu eorum vnanimi sigillum nostrum presentibus est appensum Datum in opido watzstenensi Anno domini Millesimo Quadringentesimo Vicesimo Feria Quarta Infra Octauas corporis christi.

Editions: SDHK, no. 19499; Klemming (1883), pp. 53–54.

2 (pp.3–20) Peter (Petrus) Olsson (Olavi), Additions to the rule of Saint Saviour

Rubric: Incipiunt addiciones domini prioris Petri ad Regulam saluatoris Et primo de gradibus seu signis vere humilitatis Capitulum i:m

Incipit: Humilitas vera est timere deum omni hora non amare propriam voluntatem

Explicit: Sorores sepeliantur in ambitibus et in ecclesia infra crates Et similiter fratres.

Edition: Nyberg (1972-1974), vol. 2, no. 223.

3 (ff. 20–23) Selected passages from Revelaciones extravagantes

Rubric: Sequuntur Reuelaciones pertinentes ad statuta Et prima de organis non habendis in monasterio

Incipit: Christus loquitur Filii Israel quia carnales erant multa habebant quibus ad deuocionem excitabantur

Explicit: Nec non obedienciam in manu abbatisse promittere in temporalibus Et confessori in spiritualibus. Explicit.

Note: pp. 24–28: guidelines but no text.

Edition: Hollman (1956), pp. 65–69.

Physical Description

Secundo folio

Incipiunt addiciones

Support

Binding/Endleaves

Locus: ff. LCI, SL1r–SL1v, SR1r–SR1v, RCI

Support: Western paper

Leaf dimensions: 235 × 170 mm

Textblock

Locus: pp. 1–28

Support: Parchment

Leaf dimensions: 230 × 165 mm

Foliation

pp. 1–23: Modern pagination on the recto side only (pp. 24–28 not paginated).

Collation

Note: VisColl collation

Formula: 1(14)

Condition

Textblock

Manuscript discoloured, probably from liquid. Upper right corner darkened which affects the end of lines 1-15 on all pages. Text darkened but mostly legible. pp. 11–12: Paragraph crossed out in dark ink.

Layout

Layout 1

Locus: pp. 1–2

Columns: 1

Written lines: 24

Written area:

Layout 2

Locus: pp. 3–28

Columns: 1

Written lines: 33–35

Written area: 180 × 125 mm

Note: Guidelines in brown ink.

Script

Textblock

Hand 1

(ff. 1r–1v)Gothic cursive

Hand 2

(ff. 2r–12r)Gothic cursive

Additions

Binding/Endleaves

(LCI) Top left corner: National Library book label. Top of page in black ink by a modern hand: ‘sign. A 45 i AntiqvitetsArkivet.’.

(f. SL1r) Middle of page in black ink by a modern hand: ‘Constutiones seu Addiciones ad Regulam saluatoris per Petrum Olaui priorem monasterii de alwastro 1390 Confirmatae a Kanuto episcopo Linc. anno 1420.’.

(f. SL1v) Middle of page in pencil by G. Klemming: a note on the Capitulum generale of 1429 and a bibliographical note in Swedish.

Textblock

(pp.3–4) The first five rules numbered in pencil by a modern hand in the margin.

(p.19) Correction by the scribe in the lower margin.

(p.22) Short addition with signes-de-renvoi in the outer margin by a contemporary hand.

(p.28) Middle of the page in black ink by a modern hand: ‘10’.

Decorations

Textblock

Description:

Main text in dark-brown ink, capitals touched in red, rubrics in red.

Initials:

(p.1): Opening plain initial K in same ink as main text over 2 lines (+ extending above the line). (p.3): Opening plain initial H in blue over 4 lines. (pp.3–23): Plain initials in blue and red over 2 lines.

Binding

Description:

Modern marbled cardboard binding with leather on the spine. Rebound in 1882.  LCO , stamped in gold: ‘A 45’.  Spine , black ink on paper label: ‘Addiciones ad regulam Salvatoris. 1420.’.

Binding dimensions: 245 × 175 × 15 mm

Condition: f. SR1r : old sewing stations visible.

History

Origin

Sweden, Vadstena 15th century

Provenance

The manuscript was probably transferred to Stockholm and Uppsala during the dissolution of the monasteries (finished in 1619) and finally ended up in the Antiquities Archive.

There are two signa found in the manuscript, one on p. 1 and another on p. 28. The older signum ‘10’ is found in the inventory from the 1720s (U 90:4, p. 66). Current signum, ‘A 55’, first established in Helin’s catalogue from the 1720s (U 91:2:2).