Revelationes sancte Birgitte
Contributors: Torquemada, Juan de, 1388-1468; Mattias, -1350; Waldauf, Florian, Ritter von Waldenstein, -1510; Petrus Olai, of Alvastra, approximately 1307-approximately 1390
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Published: 1500
Place of publication: Nuremburg
Language: lat
Number of pages: 624
Subjects: Private revelations; Visions; Bridgettines; Christian saints
Work titles: Revelationes
Notes: With prefaces by Johannes de Turrecremata and Mathias de Suecia.  Publication obtained by Florianus Waldauf de Waldenstain.  Cf. leaf pi1v.

Imprint from colophon on H⁵ verso.

Signatures: pi⁶2pi⁵-¹²a-z⁸A-F⁸G--H⁶a-f⁸g⁶.

Diligent scholarship has failed to achieve consensus on the artist[s] responsible for the 7 full-page woodcuts, 10 pages comprising 51 woodcuts (including frequent repetitions) and text, and 1 half-page woodcut variously attributed to Albrecht Dürer, the Master of the Bergmann Printing House, and the artist of Narrenschiff and Ritter von Turn, some suggesting that two or more are synonymous.  Cf. Dodgson, Kurth, et al.

Bulla canonizationis: pi6-2pi6.  Regula sancti salvatoris (rule of the order of the Most Holy Saviour, the Bridgettines Sisters, founded by Birgitta): C3-C8v.  Vita sancte Birgitte, H3-H5v, taken from an account by Petrus Olavi, prior of Alvastra, who reportedly is responsible for recording Birgitta's revelations and commentary in Latin.

Includes De littera: Incipit tabula libro[rum] celestiũ reuelationũ sancte Birgitte de regno Suetie, final a-f⁸g⁶.

Dodgson, C. in BM Cat. Early German and Flemish woodcuts, I, p. 263-264

Complete woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer (W. Kurth, ed.), 128-142

Hain 3205

Pellechet II, 3001

BM 15th cent., II, p. 445-446, 7558

Goff B688

GW IV, 4392

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

Library's copy has capitals, paragraph marks and initial strokes in red throughout.

Library's copy bound in vellum, the boards blind stamped with central strapwork medallions within two concentric frames of double fillets; edges red. Bookplates of the Library of Nuremberg; Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, 6th son of George III; the Rosenheim Collection; William Morris.