Regula salvatoris and texts concerning St Birgitta

Germany, Maihingen, 15th century, last quarter

paper

104 leaves

155–160 × 100–105 mm

Latin

1 (ff. 1r–28v) Birgitta Birgersdotter, Regula salvatoris (The Birgittine Rule, the third-person version)

Rubric: Incipit regula Sancti Saluatoris a sede apostolica pro constitutionibus approbata et confirmata de humilitate castitate et paupertate Capitulum primum

Incipit: Principium itaque huius religionis et salutis

Explicit: quod terra sunt et in terram reuertentur

Final rubric: Explicit regula sanctissima domini nostri Ihesu christi Saluatoris

Note: The text corresponds the the sigma version edited by Eklund, excluding, however, the bull of Urban VI.

Edition: Eklund (1975), pp. 140–172.

2 (ff. 29r–32v) Revelations regarding the Birgittine rule

Rubric: Secuntur aliquae reuelationes sy super regulam et statuta pertinentes et primo de organis non habendis in monasteryo

Incipit: Cristus loquitur sancte Birgitte fily israel quia carnales erant

Explicit: in duabus septimanis si expedit saluti et cetera

Note: The section contains chapter X, XIII, XIV, XV and XXIII of the Revelationes extravagantes.

Edition: Hollman (1956), pp. 113–232.

3 (ff. 32v–38v) Nicolaus Hermanni, Office for St Birgitta

Rubric: Sequitur historia de sancta Birgitta matris nostre de eius veneracione In i vesperis antiphone super psalmos feriales

Incipit: Rosa rorans bonitatem

Explicit: et recte viuendi nobis operentur effectum per dominum etc

Note: The office ends with a mass for the commemoration of St Birgitta (ff. 37r–38v). A detailed inventory of the contents of the office is given by Collijn (1945), p. 12.

Edition: Lundén (1971), pp. 77–110.

4 (ff. 39r–79r) Birger Gregersson, Office for St Birgitta

Note: The life of St Birgitta, constituting the readings of Birger Gregersson's office, has sometimes been transmitted independently of the rest of the office (see Undhagen, pp. 31–35) and is transmitted here as a separate item.

Edition: Undhagen (1960), pp. 177–237.

4.1 (ff. 39r–45v) Office with mass

Rubric: Incipit hystoria in solemnitatibus Sancte Birgitte de regno Suecie antiphona in primis vesperis psalmus

Incipit: Omnia laudate Birgitte matris inclite festa iocunda suscipe

Explicit: oratio in cuius veneratione hec tue obtulimus maiestati per dominum nostrum etc

Note: The office ends with a mass for the commemoration of St Birgitta (ff. 44r–45v). A detailed inventory of the contents of the office is given by Collijn (1945), p. 13.

4.2 (ff. 45v–79r) Life of St Birgitta

Rubric: Sequitur legenda de sancta Birgitta

Incipit: Ecce descripsi eam tibi tripliciter

Explicit: eam venerandam declarat et mirificat dominus noster Ihesus christus qui est benedictus in secula seculorum Amen

Final rubric: Explicit hystoria cum legenda sancte Birgitte de regno suecie compilata per venerabilem patrem dominum Birgerum Archiepiscopum Upsalensem scripta in monasteryo Marie may⟨hingen⟩ ordinis sancti Saluatoris Et est sciendum quod ter in anno habetur festum de eadem sancta Birgitta videlicet Natale quando scilicet defuncta est quod cadit in proxima die post festum sancte marie magdalene que est x kalendas augusti secundum eius festum est translacione quando scilicet translata est de roma ad partes Suecie quod cadit xxviii die mensis May tertium vero eius festum est canonizacionis quod cadit iiii die mensis octobris etc

5 (ff. 79r–97v) Canonization bull of Boniface IX

Rubric: Sequitur bulla canonizacionis Sancte Birgitte matris nostre

Incipit: Bonifacius \IX/ episcopus seruus seruorum dei venerabilibus fratribus

Explicit: gaudia peruenire Datum rome aput sanctum Petrum nonis octobris pontificatus nostri anno secundo

Note:

The bull ends with the colophon of the confirmation of Pope Martinus V, dated here 15 July 1419 (cf. BHL, no. 1347): ‘Nulli ergo omnino hominum liceat hanc pacinam nostre approbationis confirmationis et communicionis infringere vel ei ausu temerario contraire Si quis autem hoc attemptare presumpserit indignacionem omnipotentis dei et beatorum petri et pauli apostolorum eius se noverit incursurum Datum florencie in idibus July pontificatus nostri anno 2:o’ (Cf. SDHK, no. 19312)

ff. 98r–104v blank.

Edition: Tomassetti (1859), pp. 616–624.

Physical Description

Secundo folio

manum quando manualia

Support

Binding/Endleaves

Locus: LCI, RCI

Support: Paper

Leaf dimensions: 155 × 100 mm

Textblock

Locus: ff. 1r–104v

Support: Paper

Leaf dimensions: 160 × 105 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil.

Collation

Note: VisColl collation

Formula: 1-8(12), 9(8)

Note: Parchment guards.

Condition

Binding/Endleaves

A few larger holes and wormholes.

Textblock

A few wormholes in places. Upper outer corner of of writing space affected by water damage throughout, but text unaffected.

Layout

Locus: ff. 1r–97v

Columns: 1

Written lines: 18

Written area: 120 × 75 mm

Script

Textblock

Hand 1

(ff. 1r–97v)Hybrida.

Additions

Binding/Endleaves

(LCI) Top left corner in pencil by a modern hand: ‘97 [--- 8 chars ---] S. Brigittae [--- 4 chars ---] ’; centre page: the medieval book plate of Hilprand Brandenburg; below, in pencil by a modern hand: ‘Ex libr⟨is⟩ Hildebrani fl⟨oruit⟩ 1500 - F[--- 4 chars ---] ’; below: modern stamp of National Library; bottom left corner: National Library book label with the current signum; bottom right corner in pencil: ‘H 2’; below, in blue ink: the year of accession and accession number, ‘1944/14’.

(RCI) Top left corner: a glued-on paper label, torn, but with the number ‘3’ legible.

Textblock

(f. 1r) In light brown ink by an early modern hand: ‘Cartusianorum in Buxheim’; outer margin in the same ink: a ringed cross.

(ff. 1r–94r) Occasional marginal notations, and several passages highlighted by a red line along outer margin with or without an accompanying nota-mark (e.g. (f. 5v)); (f. 3r): manicule.

(ff. 1r, 97v–97v) Modern stamp of the National Library.

(f. 104v) Note in pencil in a modern hand: ‘Bokägaremärket: Hildebrand Brandenburg: från Biberach (Würtemberg) Cartusianermunk i klostret Buxheim vid Memingen Det äldsta kända tyska ex libris (tiden omkr. 1470)’.

Decorations

Textblock

Description:

Main text in brown ink; capitals touched in red; chapter rubrics in red.

Initials:

(f. 1r): plain opening initial ‘P’ over 6 lines in red with interior reserved shapes; plain cross in counter space in a different red ink.

(ff. 1v–79r): plain initials over 2-3 lines in red, some with penwork and interior reserved shapes.

(ff. 33r–45v): plain initials over 1 line in red.

Binding

Description:

Medieval binding. Grayish white leather over bevelled wooden boards. 3 double raised bands and endbands. 1 hooked clasp. Spine: in brown ink on a paper label ‘Regula S. Salvatoris Offic. et Legenda S. Brigitte Vidue’; below, stamped in gold: ‘A 75a’; below: the remains of another paper label; LCO, top: traces of writing in brown ink, barely legible [Regula Sancti Salvatoris?]; LCO, bottom, in pencil: ‘378[3?]’.

Binding dimensions: 175 × 120 × 35 mm

Tooling:

LCO and RCO, blind tooled triple-line borders, inside of which a blind tooled pattern of lozenges; at each intersection of the diagonal lines, a blind stamped flower; at the centre of each lozenge (or triangle), a blind stamped fleur-de-lis in a double-line lozenge-shaped frame, or a blind stamped acorn.

Condition: Leather somewhat worn; in a few places, wormholes which have penetrated the wooden boards. Clasp and strap missing.

Contemporary: Yes

History

Origin

Germany, Maihingen, 15th century, last quarter; see colophon on f. 78v.

Provenance

Once owned by the Carthusian monks at Buxheim (f. 1r). LCI carries the bookplate of Hilprand Brandenburg, a donate of the community at Buxheim, who bequeathed ca 450 books to the monks there before his death in 1514. Collijn, however, questions that this manuscript formed part of Hilprand's donation; he suggests that the bookplate may instead have been inserted by an antiquarian later in its history (Collijn (1945), p. 9).