Bonaventure, Life of St Francis of Assisi (fragment)

14th/15th century

Parchment

6 leaves

275 × 220 mm

Latin

1 (ff. 1r–6v) Bonaventure, Life of St Francis of Assisi (fragment)

Incipit: alter per ordinem narrarunt

Explicit: sed transitum et reditum cithare

Note: The fragment seems to contain excerpts from the so-called ‘Legenda maior sancti Francisci’ by Bonaventure. For example, the first bifolium contains text from chapter 22-23, followed by chapter 18.

Edition: Legendae S. Francisci Assisiensis saeculis XIII et XIV conscriptae, vol. X, pp. 557–652.

Physical Description

Support

Textblock

Locus: ff. 1–6

Support: Parchment

Leaf dimensions: 275 × 220 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil.

Collation

Note: 3 detached bifolia.

Condition

Textblock

The parchment is stained, but the text legible. The leaves have been trimmed.

Layout

Columns: 2

Ruled lines: 24

Written area: 235 × 160 mm

Note: Ruling and guidelines in ink.

Script

Textblock

Hand 1

Gothic textualis.

Additions

Textblock

(f. 1v) Outer margin, identification of text in ink by a modern hand; lower margin, 4 numbers written in ink.

(f. 5v) Outer margin, text identification in ink by a modern hand.

(f. 6v) Lower margin, in brown ink (upside down): ‘?itt X? est’.

Decorations

Textblock

Description:

Main text in black ink, rubrics in red, capitals touched in red.

Initials:

(f. 5v): plain initial over 2 lines in red with flourishing in black;

(ff. 1r–2v): plain intials over 1 line in red or blue with flourishing in black or red.

Binding

Description:

The fragment is stored unbound in a modern protective cover.

Contemporary: No

History

Origin

14th/15th century

Provenance

Origin and early provenance unknown. The fragment was previously kept at the Archive of the Royal Chancery (Kammararkivet). The numbers visible on f. 1v probably indicate that the leaves have been used as wrappings for accounts.