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Detailed record for Additional 15710
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| Author |
Saint Bonaventure |
| Title |
Life and Miracles of Francis (Legenda Sancti Francisci), translated by Konrad von Bondorff; Legend of Francis, a hymn to Francis |
| Origin |
Germany, S.W. |
| Date |
30 June 1478 |
| Language |
German (Allemanic dialect) |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Scribe |
Sibylla von Bondorf |
| Artists |
Sibylla von Bondorf |
| Decoration |
58 full-page miniatures in colours in orange frames (ff. 4, 6v, 10, 15, 17, 18v, 19v, 20v, 21v, 23, 24v, 30v, 33, 42, 46v, 48v, 50v, 52v, 59v, 61v, 62v, 63v, 65, 68, 72v, 74, 75, 76v, 85, 91v, 93, 103, 107v, 110v, 119, 128v, 131, 132, 134, 136, 152v, 161, 161v, 164v, 168, 168v, 173, 173v, 179, 179v, 184, 184v, 186v, 192, 195, 196, 199, 246v). 14 one or two column-width miniatures in colours (f. 6, 35v 39, 44v, 55, 84, 104, 105v, 111, 116, 189v, 203, 247, 248). 4 historiated puzzle initials (ff. 4v, 53, 65v, 160). Initials with foliate decoration and display script in colours (e.g., f.10v). Flowers and foliate decoration in lower margins in colours (e.g., f. 19, 44v, 141, 148v). Puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in both colours. Initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour or brown. Partial borders in red and blue with foliate decoration. Rubrics and highlighting in red. Cadels. |
| Dimensions in mm |
205 x 140 (135 x 95) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 260 (f. 1 is a paper paste-down and f. 2 is a paper flyleaf + 7 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end) |
| Form |
Paper codex |
| Binding |
Pre-1600. Stamped calf-leather with painted fore-edges. |
| Provenance |
Order of St Clare, Lower Friburg, illuminated by Sister Sibilla von Bondorf (b. c.1450, d. after 1524), nun of the order of St Clare: a note on f.1, written by Konrad von Bondorff ('Conradus d[e] Bondorff baccalarius Argentinensis'), stating that this volume was written by her for the use of the nuns of the second Order of St. Francis, Lower Friburg in 1478 under the rule of the abbess Susanna de Falckenstein.
Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853 (see David Paisey, 'Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, anglophile and friend to Panizzi', in The British Library Journal, 23 (1997), 131-53), purchased from him by the British Museum, 24 January 1848. |
| Notes |
Sibilla von Bondorf also illuminated Additional 15686.
Catchwords
A female figure in secular clothing representing a reader occurs 8 times in the manuscript (ff. 10v, 44v, 65v, 111r, 116r, 173r, 193r, 247r) |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1846-1847 (London: British Museum, 1864), p. 13.
Bonaventuras Legenda Sancti Francisci in der U¨bersetzung der Sibilla von Bondorf, ed. by David Brett-Evans (Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1960).
D. Brett-Evans, 'Sibilla von Bondorf, Ein Nachtrag', Zeitschrift für Deutsche Philologie 86 (1967), 91-98.
Robert Priebsch, Deutsche Handschriften in England, 2 vols (in 1 vol.) (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1979), II: Das British Museum mit einem Anhang über die Guildhall-Bibliothek (first publ. as 2 vols, Erlangen, 1896-1901), pp. 140-41
Jeffrey Hamburger, Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of the Medieval Convent (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), p. 139.
Ulrike Bodeman, 'Miniaturenzyklen der Klarissin Sibylla von Bondorf und ihre Funktion', in Frauen-Kloster-Kunst: Neue Forschungen Zur Kulturgeschichte Des Mittelalters: Beträge zum Internationalen Kolloquium vom 13. bis 16. Mai 2005 , ed. by Jeffrey Hamburger et al. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), pp. 197-209 (pp. 198, 200-02, pls. 2, 16, 21).
Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Nigel F. Palmer, The Prayer Book of Ursula Begerin, 2 vols (Dietikon-Zurich: Urs Graf, 2015), I, p. 485.
Cynthia J. Cyrus, The scribes for women's convents in late medieval Germany (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009), p. 257, n. 140. |
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f. 1
Colophon |
f. 4
Bonaventure |
f. 4v
Writing in a book |
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f. 6
Christ and John |
f. 6v
John the Evangelist |
f. 10
Francis of Assisi and Sibilla von Bondorff |
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f. 10v
Secular reader |
f. 15
Francis kisses a leper |
f. 17
Francis and the lepers |
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f. 18v
Frances praying |
f. 19v
Francis and a priest |
f. 20v
Francis is locked away |
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f. 21v
Francis is set free |
f. 23
Francis and a bishop |
f. 24v
Francis attacked |
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f. 30v
Francis and a dragon |
f. 50v
Francis uplifted |
f. 52v
Francis giving out bread |
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f. 53
Francis with a cross |
f. 59v
Francis feeds and teaches |
f. 61v
Francis and a surgeon |
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f. 62v
Francis turns water to wine |
f. 63v
Angels play music for Francis |
f. 65
Francis bring light |
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f. 68
Francis preaching outside Assisi |
f. 72v
A vision of the throne in heaven |
f. 74
Francis reveals relics |
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f. 75
A bishop embraces Francis |
f. 76v
Bringing peace to Arezzo |
f. 85
Three women greet Francis |
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f. 91v
Francis feeds a poor man |
f. 93
Francis prays for rain |
f. 103
Francis among sheep |
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f. 104
Francis and a lamb praying |
f. 105v
Francis and a leveret |
f. 107v
Francis among the birds |
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f. 110v
Francis and the pheasant |
f. 111
The Trinity |
f. 161v
Francis is tempted by the devil. |
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f. 164v
The stigmatisation of Francis |
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