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Bartholomew of Pisa Manuscript

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS LAT 24

Held at: University College London

Title: Bartholomew of Pisa Manuscript

Date(s): 15th century

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume containing 315 leaves

Name of creator(s): Unknown.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Written in Italy, perhaps by Franciscus de Arimino.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript volume, 15th century, containing Bartholomew of Pisa's 'De Conformitate Vitae Sancti Francisci Ad Vitam Domini Jesu Christi' (On the conformity of the life of Saint Francis to the life of our Lord Jesus Christ) and lists of privileges etc granted to the Friars Minor (Franciscans), extracted from papal registers by Marcus Trevisanus, minister of the Roman province. The list is dated 1418 in the rubric on folio 313v.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Latin

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

Physical characteristics:

Paper manuscript bound in vellum. Some red headings and red initials up to folio 29, after which they are left blank. 32cm.

Finding aids:

List at University College London Special Collections; N R Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, i (London and Oxford, 1969).

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

The manuscript belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), baronet, an antiquary and bibliophile whose collection included c60,000 manuscripts of various kinds. Various manuscripts were sold after Sir Thomas's death, some to the German government, and were dispersed to several libraries. This manuscript was purchased from the Phillipps collection by Dr Walter Seton in 1911. Formerly Phillipps MS 12783.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased at the Seton sale at Sotheby's in 1927 and presented to University College London by the British Society of Franciscan Studies and others.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Existence and location of copies:

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Publication note:

For an account of this manuscript, see Walter Seton, 'Two manuscripts of Bartholomew of Pisa's "De Conformitate" ', Archivum Franciscanum historicum, xvi (1923), pp 192-7.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2001

INDEX ENTRIES

Subjects
Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Franciscan order | Religious communities | Religious institutions
Religious texts | Religious doctrines | Theology
Saints | Religious groups
Religion

Personal names
Arimino | Franciscus de | 15th-century Italian scribe x Franciscus de Arimino x de Arimino | Franciscus
Bartholomew of Pisa | fl 1352-1401 | friar and chronicler | also known as Bartolommeo Degli Albizzi x Albizzi | Bartolommeo Degli x Pisa | Bartholomew of
Trevisanus | Marcus | minister of the Roman province

Corporate names

Places