Reuelationes sancte Birgitte
Series: Scandinavian culture series -- roll 6, item 1; German books before 1601 -- roll 120, item 2
Publisher: Anton Koberger
Published: 1500
Place of publication: Nuremberg
Language: lat
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Private revelations; Early works to 1800; Visions; Prophecies; Christian saints; Biography; Bridgettines
Other titles: Revelationes Sanctae Birgittae
Work titles: Revelationes
Notes: Edited by Florian Waldauf, at the instigation of Maximilian I; cf. leaf pi1v.

The Vita abbreviata sanctae Birgittae is taken from an account by Petrus Olai, who is considered responsible for recording St. Bridget's revelations and commentary in Latin.

Colophon (leaf H5v): ... Insup[er] iam alterato p[er] Anthoniu[m] Koberger ciue[m] Nuremburgen[sem]. impresse finiunt. Anno domini .M.ccccc. xxi. mensis Septe[m]bris. Laus omnipotenti deo: Amen.

Signatures: pi⁶ 2pi⁸, a-z⁸ A-F⁸ G-H⁶, ²a-f⁸ ²g⁶ (H6, ²g6 blank); 2pi1-2pi4 signed '5', '6', '7', '8' respectively.

Full-page woodcut on title-page of St. Bridget giving the rule of her order, 6 other full-page, 1 half-page, and 51 smaller woodcuts in text. The ill. have been variously attributed to Albrecht Dürer, the Master of the Bergmann Printing House, and the artist of Narrenschiff and Ritter von Turn.

Text in double columns, 57 lines per column.

Initial spaces, most with guide-letters.

Hain-Copinger, 3205*.

Proctor, 2124.

Goff, B-688.

GW, 4392.

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel, 3504.

Murray, C.F. German books, I, 73.

BM 15th cent., II, 445 (IB.7558).

BSB-Ink, B-531.

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ib00688000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 763.
Table of contents: title: [Preface] / Florian Waldauf (pi1v); title: Epistola / Juan de Torquemada (pi3r-pi6r); title: Bulla canonizationis / Boniface IX (pi6r-2pi2v); title: Confirmatio canonizationis / Martin V (2pi2v-2pi3v); title: Decretum / Juan de Torquemada (2pi2v-2pi4v); title: [Prayers] (2pi5v-2pi6r); title: Prologus / Matthias de Suecia (2pi6v-2pi7v); title: Revelationes (a1r-C2r); title: Epistola solitarii ad reges / Alfonso de Jaen (z4r-A2r); title: Regula sancti salvatoris (C3r-C8v); title: Sermo angelicus (D1r-E2r); title: Orationes quattuor (E2v-E5v); title: Revelationes extravagantes (E6r-H2v); title: Vita abbreviata sanctae Birgittae (H3r-H6v); title: Tabula (²a1r-g5v).