The book explores the manuscripts written, read, and studied by Franciscan friars from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries in Northern Italy, and specifically Padua, assessing four key aspects: ideal, space, form and readership. The ideal is studied through the regulations that determined what manuscripts should aim for. Space refers to the development and role of Franciscan libraries. The form is revealed by the assessment of the physical configuration of a set of representative manuscripts read, written, and manufactured by the friars. Finally, the study of the readership shows how Franciscans were skilled readers who employed certain forms of the manuscript as a portable, personal library, and as a tool for learning and pastoral care. By comparing the book collections of Padua’s reformed and unreformed medieval Franciscan libraries for the first time, this study reveals new features of the ground-breaking cultural agency of medieval friars.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Illustrations
- Fig. 1: Distribution of volumes in the Biblioteca Antoniana of Padua, 1449.
- Appendix 2The Set of Corrections of the Manuscripts of Bonaventure’s Commentaryon the First Book of the Sentences, Padua, Biblioteca Antoniana, MSS 120,123, 124 and 125
- Plate 1: Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Amiat. 1, fol. 2r.
- Plate 3: Padua, Biblioteca Antoniana, MS 120, fol. 13r.
- Plate 4: Padua, Biblioteca Antoniana, MS 123, fol. 37v.
- Plate 5: Padua, Biblioteca Antoniana, MS 124, fol. 55r.
- Plate 6: Padua, Biblioteca Antoniana, MS 125, fol. 10v.
- Plate 7: Padua, Biblioteca Antoniana, MS 125, fol. 127v.
- Plate 8: Padua, Biblioteca Antoniana, MS 125, fol. 143r.
- Plate 9: Padua, Biblioteca Antoniana, MS 418, fol. 17r.
- Plate 11: Padua, Biblioteca Antoniana, MS 527, fol. 36v.
- Plate 12: Padua, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS 1030, fol. 78r.
- Plate 13: Padua, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS 586, fol. 164r.
- Plate 14: Padua, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS 736, fol. 1r.
- Plate 15: Padua, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS 1159, fol. 33r.
- Plate 16: Padua, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS 1789, fol. 176r.
- Plate 17: Padua, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS 1851, fol. 8r.
- Plate 18: Padua, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS 2103, fol. 21r.
- Plate 19: Padua, Biblioteca Antoniana, MS 267, fol. 3v.
- Plate 21: Padua, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS 736, 117v.
- Plate 22: Padua, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS 1159, fol. 188r.
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Transcriptions
- Introduction
- 1. The Ideal
- Regulations and Franciscan Manuscripts in Padua
- 2. The Space
- Libraries and Franciscan Manuscripts in Padua
- 3. The Form
- 4. The Readership
- Reading Franciscan Manuscripts in Padua
- Conclusions
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
- Bibliography
- Index
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