National Library of Sweden, A 59
Copy of a supplication to the future pope regarding confirmation of the rule of St Birgitta (fragment)
15th century
Paper
i, 4, i' leaves
220–415 × 150 mm
Latin
1
(ff. 1r–4v)
Copy of a supplication to the future pope regarding confirmation of the rule of St Birgitta
Copia supplicacionis Exhibende futuro Romano pontifici pro confirmacione regule beate Birgitte Et omnium indultorum Apostolicorum et cetera
BEatissime pater Pro parte deuotissimorum filiorum
Et concedere cum omnibus singulis clausulis necessariis et oprotunis (!) non obstantibus contrariis quibus cumque et cetera
Secundo folio
liter committo utSupport
Foliation
Modern foliation in pencil.
Condition
Textblock
Fragment in poor condition. Leaves torn and stained, but the text still legible. Leaves mounted on modern paper. f. 4 bottom half of leaf missing.Script
Textblock
Hand 1
Gothic cursive.Additions
Decorations
Textblock
Main text in brown ink.
(f. 1r): Penwork initial ‘B’ over 2 lines (extending above the line) in same ink as the main text.
Origin
15th century,
Provenance
Unknown provenance. The fragment previously belonged to the Antiquities Archive where it was stored without a signum.
Acquisition
From the Antiquities Archive to the National Library in 1780(?).
- Friedlander (1963), pp. 86–144.
- Höjer (1905), pp. 178–179.