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MS LAT - Latin Manuscripts

StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	Item
Reference Number	MS LAT/24
Title	Bartholomew of Pisa Manuscript
Date	15th century
Description	Manuscript volume, 15th century, containing Bartholomew of Pisa's 'De Conformitate Vitae Sancti Francisci Ad Vitam Domini Jesu Christi' (On the conformity of the life of Saint Francis to the life of our Lord Jesus Christ) and lists of privileges etc granted to the Friars Minor (Franciscans), extracted from papal registers by Marcus Trevisanus, minister of the Roman province. The list is dated 1418 in the rubric on folio 313v.
Extent	1 volume containing 315 leaves
AdminHistory	Written in Italy, perhaps by Franciscus de Arimino.
CustodialHistory	The manuscript belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), baronet, an antiquary and bibliophile whose collection included c60,000 manuscripts of various kinds. Various manuscripts were sold after Sir Thomas's death, some to the German government, and were dispersed to several libraries. This manuscript was purchased from the Phillipps collection by Dr Walter Seton in 1911. Formerly Phillipps MS 12783.
Acquisition	Purchased at the Seton sale at Sotheby's in 1927 and presented to University College London by the British Society of Franciscan Studies and others.
AccessStatus	Open
AccessConditions	The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
FindingAids	List at University College London Special Collections; N R Ker, 'Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries' (London and Oxford, 1969).
PublnNote	For an account of this manuscript, see Walter Seton, 'Two manuscripts of Bartholomew of Pisa's "De Conformitate" ', Archivum Franciscanum historicum, xvi (1923), pp 192-7.

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