Revelationes sancte Birgitte.

Accession number:

PML 20983

Author:

Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, approximately 1303-1373.

Published:

Nuremberg : Anton Koberger, 21 September 1500.

Description:

[312] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.

Notes:

Collation: [1]⁶ [2]⁸; a-z, A-F⁸ G-H⁶; a-f⁸ g⁶: 312 leaves, leaf H6 blank.
Colophon (leaf H5v): Finit divinu[m] volume[n] omniu[m] celestiu[m] Revelationu[m] preelecte sponse christi sancte Birgitte de regno Suetie. ... Insup[er] iam alterato p[er] Anthoniu[m] Koberger cive[m] Nuremburgen[sis]. impresse finiunt. Anno domini .M.ccccc. xxi. mensis Septe[m]bris. Laus omnipotenti deo: amen.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31 x 21 cm
PML copy with a second copy of leaf [1]/2 originally bound in after leaf [2]/8.
Printed at the instigation of Maximilian I.
Printed in Koberger's types 14:130G, 15:91G, and 19:71G mixed with 21:74G and 25:82G.
The Latin version of the Revelationes is essentially the work of Petrus Olavi, priest of Alvestra. He is also the author, together with Petrus Olavi of Skännige, of a Vita S. Birgittae from which the Vita abbreviata S. Birgittae originates (CIBN).
Title from half-title page (leaf [1]/1r).
With foreword by Johannes de Turrecremata and Matthias de Suecia. Vita abbreviata S. Birgittae. Hymnus ad Beatam Birgittam, edited by Florian Waldauf.
Woodcuts.

Binding:

Contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (32.5 x 22 cm),sewn on 3 supports by the Jagdrolle workshop of Augsburg (aka. Hirsch-Rolle IV, EBDB w002121/Kyriss 79), active circa 1482-1532; repaired by Gertrude Weadlock and Duprez Lahey, 1931.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, alternating red and blue lombards. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance:

Fürstenfeld (Bavaria), Cistercians, inscription, 1647 (leaf [1]/1r); Munich, Court Library, duplicate inscription (front pastedown); Bernard Quaritch, cat. 353, no. 89; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Quaritch, 1919.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Calf bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Century:

15th century

Department:

Printed Books