Venice, St George of Alga Canons: Institutes

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0103 MS ITALIAN 4
Held at	: University College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll ›
Full title	: Venice, St George of Alga Canons: Institutes
Date(s)	: 15th century
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 14 leaves
Name of creator(s)	: Unknown

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Written in Italy, perhaps in Venice. The congregation of the canons regular of St George in Alga, Venice, to which the manuscript apparently relates, received its concession from Boniface IX in 1404, and confirmation from Gregory XII in 1407.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript volume, 15th century, containing institutes of a congregation of canons, comprising a prologue, 15 institutes, and a commentary after each institute in one or more chapters, 37 in all. The name of the congregation is not given, but institutes are apparently those of the canons of St George in Alga, Venice. Folio 1 bears a later table of the chapters. Folios 13v-14v are blank.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
Italian. Gothic minuscule script.

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

Finding aids:

N R Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, i (London and Oxford, 1969); list at University College London Special Collections.

Archival Information

Archival history:

With the stamp of Ercoli Sieva.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased from Bernard Rosenthal in New York in 1959.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Probably unpublished.

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Oct 2001