In festiuitate sancte Catherini virginis filie sancte Brigide de regno suetie Omnia dicuntur sicut in Natali unius sancte virginis non martiris preter orationem et lectiones In primis Vesperis Antiphona
Haec est virgo sapiens
Oratio Clementiam tuam domine vt supra
f. 13r, f. 19v, f. 20v: The collect ‘Clementiam tuam domine’ to St Katarina was printed in the Summarium processus canonizacionis (1480), Collijn (1934–1938), p. 9. The lessons, beginning on f. 13v, are from the Vita Katherine (1487), SRS 3, vol. 2, pp. 244–267.
Questo libro ha scritto Frate Andrea Tiburzi del ordine di sancta Brigida del Paradiso in pian di Ripoli Se questo libro a sorta si perdessi o capitassi alle mani di persona et nulla del mio nome non sapessi legga quel uerso che e qui di sotto che risuona Frate Andrea e chiamato uenga a sancto Quirico presso a Montelupo che l’hara trouato
Table of contents and a colophon (in Italian) by the scribe Andrea Tiburzi.
Letters occasionally erased by wear and tear throughout the volume, for example on f. 14r, f. 15v, f. 21r, f. 37r. Words deliberately erased on f. 36v.
Layout
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Guidelines iand ruling in lead.
Script
Textblock
Hand 1
Southern textualis.
Additions
Binding/Endleaves
(LCI)
Top of page, in pencil by a modern hand:‘ LB XIX 321 806’. In black ink by a modern hand: ‘A 536’ (current signum). Bottom of page, in pencil by a modern hand: ‘Inköpt 10/4 04 fr. Rosenthal, München för 80 mark’. In black ink: ‘1904/9’.
(74A)
In light brown ink by a 16th- or 17th century hand: Psalm 47 (‘Magnus dominus et Laudabilis nimis’).
(RCI)
In pencil by a modern hand: Illegible notes and the date ‘10.2.99’ as well as the number‘ 36’.
Textblock
(f. 8r)
Bottom of page, in brown ink by an early modern hand: illegible note.
(ff. 54v–55r)
In the margin, in dark brown ink by an early modern hand: references.
Decorations
Textblock
Main text in dark brown ink. Rubrics in red. Capitals touched in light brown ink.
Plain initials in pale blue and red ink over 1 line throughout the volume.
Binding
Late medieval binding. Light brown leather over wooden boards. 3 double spinebands, 2 endbands. 2 hook-clasp fastenings. Spine: traces of a paper label with illegible text. LCO: National Library book label with the following text in brown ink: ‘Teol. Kyrkobr.’
170/170 ×
110/110 ×
30/30 mm
Blind tooling. Rectangular panels with ornaments. Four acorns in the corners of the inner frame. In the middle, an oval frame with a cross and the letters ‘IHS’, surrounded by four heart-shaped leaves.
Written at Paradiso monastery in Florence by the Birgittine brother Andrea Tiburzi, according to a note on f. 74v. The monastery was closed in 1776. The manuscript was at an unknown occasion bought by Rosenthal's antiquarian bookshop in Munich.
