Visio Tundali

Germany?, 15th century

12 leaves

320 × 110 mm

Latin

1 (ff. 1r–12r) Visio Tundali

Rubric: Visio Tundali Alias tung⟨ali⟩

Incipit: INcipit liber marchi monachi de visione cuiusdam militis hiberniensis de penis inferni et gloria paradisi qui vidit anno domini Mcxlix Hybernia est insula in vltimo occidentali occeano posita

Explicit: qui superest cunctis que ante diximus ihesu christo domino nostro cui est honor et gloria per infinita secula seculorum

Note: f. 12v: blank.

Editions: Wagner (1882), pp. 5–56.

Physical Description

Secundo folio

sibi sine mora

Support

Textblock

Locus: ff. 1r–12v

Support: Paper

Leaf dimensions: 320 × 110 mm

Watermark 1

Locus: ff. 12r,

Note:

Oxhead with eyes and nostrils with single-line rod and flower above, similar to Piccard II:3, nr 218.

Note: A 245 consists of a single quire, which probably has been detached from a larger volume. The binding threads are missing.

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil.

Condition

Textblock

The booklet is in bad shape. The leaves are torn at the edges and frail. Almost all leaves also suffer from water damage, but the text is still legible. The first and last leaves are considerably darker than the rest, which indicates that the booklet has been in its current shape for some time.

Layout

Locus: ff. 1r–12r

Columns: 1

Written lines: 64–70

Written area: 270 × 70 mm

Note: Guidelines in ink.

Script

Textblock

Hand 1

Gothic cursive.

Additions

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(f. 1r) Top lefft corner, in black ink by a modern hadn:‘ 19N^o 24’.

(ff. 1r–11v) Chapter titles added in the margin by the scribe and possibly also by other hands (these are sometimes framed and touched in red).

(f. 1r) Corrections in the margin by the scribe or a similar hand.

Decorations

Textblock

Description:

Main text in black ink, capitals touched in red, rubrics either in red or underlined in red.

Initials:

(ff. 1r–2r): Plain initials over 2 lines in red. (ff. 6v–11v): space reserved for initials, sometimes marked with guide letters.

Binding

Description:

19th-century cardboard folder. Binding consists of two separate folders, one placed inside the other. Outer_cover_outside, in brown ink:‘ A 245’; in black ink: ‘Visio Tundali’; National Library modern ex libris. Inner_cover_outside, in black ink by a 19th-century hand: ‘Omtalas i Sv. Forn. Skr. Sällsk. Handl. 1.2.’; ‘Visio Tundali alias Tungalli, Militis Hiberniensis De Penis (Poenis) inferni et gloria paradisi auctore marcho monacho an. Dom. mcxlic; In sua relatione Hibernia describitur, Acherontis partes transeuntur, Paradisi provinciole visuntur, Et quidam Fristinus, Reges illi Donathus, Conchaber, Cormachus, Hominesque Sancti Partricius, Aremathanus, Malachi, Danus, et Ruadanus breviter commemorantur.; chartaceus (codex): Paginas habet xxiv. Stockholm Junii 1842 S.S.’

Binding dimensions: 360 × 135 × 5 mm

History

Origin

Germany?, 15th century. Origin and dating based on watermark.

Provenance

Early provenance unknown. The text has been in Sweden since at least 1700. This evidenced by the catalogue of the Antiquties Archive from 1700 (U 91:2a, formerly 91:3), where it is listed as ‘No 17’. A 245 was probably originally part of a larger manuscript, but the first known evidence for its provenance lists it in its current shape.

In the list of manuscripts transferred from the Antiquities Archive (U 125e:3) it is listed as ‘No 24’. The signum ‘19’, the deleted signum on f. 1r, has not been identified.