National Library of Sweden, A 79 Medieval Latin Manuscripts in the National Library: Cataloguing and Digitization National Library of Sweden Riksbankens jubileumsfond – The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences Annika Ekman Anna Wolodarski Patrik Granholm manuscripta.se: A Digital Catalogue of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Sweden https://www.manuscripta.se/ms/101095 CC BY 4.0 Sweden Stockholm National Library of Sweden National Library of Sweden A 79 6mmrt5l841r0xvl3 004837584 Statutes of the General Chapter of the Birgittine order in Gnadenberg (Marienbaum) Abbey 1487 Modern foliation in pencil. cessorum nostrorum scientia

VisColl collation

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Medieval binding. Undecorated parchment leaf. Leaves sewn through spine with a contemporary plaited cord of green, beige, and pink multi-ply strands (see ). Top left corner of , the date of accession in pencil: 20/404; below in brown ink: IIII; top centre in a late medieval/early modern hand: Capitulum generale sub Innocentio papa VIII; top right: smudged note in pencil (Rosenthal?); below, remnants of paper book label, and in pencil, the accession number: 10; centre page, a note in pencil, difficult to make out (a name?); bottom left, year and accession number in black ink: 1904/10; bottom left, in brown ink by a medieval hand: Kloster marienbaum.

Modern binding. Marbled paper on cardboard. The medieval booklet is attached inside with white string around spine and center fold. On modern cover (see ), title of work in black ink on a white label and stamped in gold underneath: A 79. In upper left corner of front pastedown, the modern bookmark of the National Library.

Germany , 1487, 13 September

The manuscript once belonged to the Birgittine monastery of Marienbaum in the diocese of Cologne. (See Krämer )

Purchased by the National Library for 100 marks from Antiquariat Jaques Rosenthal, Munich.

 Krämer (1989) 1 Statutes of the General Chapter of the Birgittine order in Gnadenberg (Marienbaum) Abbey 1487 WILHELMVS Dei gracia aistetensis alias aureatensis ecclesia Episcopus presentibus ibidem Venerabili et Religiosis deuotis nobis In christo dilectis fratribus Iohanne priore Monasterii sancti Iohannis Baptiste in Rebdorff dicte nostre dyocesis ordinis sancti Augustini Canonicorum Regularum et Wolffgango Zandizeller Acolito dicte Augustinensis dyocesis testibus ad premissa Vocatis specialiter et Rogatis

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A full copy of the text (including the colophon) can be found in Stockholm, National Library, MS A 11, fol. 83r-88v. See also the letter attached to Stockholm, National Library, MS A 92.

 Et ego Iohannes Vogt Clericus Eystetensis diocesis publicus apostolica et imperiali auctoritatibus notarius in fidem et testimonium omnium et singulorum premissorum Nyberg (1972–1974)

Parchment

Contemporary foliation in brown ink . Above the modern foliation, later medieval/early modern pagination in dark brown ink, 1-12, starting on () and covering the statutes proper. Some stains and dirt, mainly in outer margins and corners.

Gothic cursiva formata.

Marginal note in pencil by a modern hand identifying pope Innocentius as VIII.

Marginal notes in pencil by a modern hand identifying years.

In the same hand as the pagination, article numbers in Arabic numerals in the inner margin, summaries of 2-6 lines of article contents in the outer margin, and chapter numbers in Roman numerals in the same hand next to the chapter headings.

Main text in brown ink.

: Opening initial W with reserved interior shapes and penwork in brown ink; first word, WILHELMVS, in display script extending c. 3 lines above the text.

: Flourishes and notarial sign of the scribe in brown ink: standing on a two-tiered platform flanked by flourishes, a six-pointed star mounted on a stand; points of star filled in with brown ink, one dot in each unfilled section; inside the border of the top tier of the platform, the letter S; inside the border of the bottom tier, the name of the scribe: Johannes Vogt.

 First published 260602 First draft

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