The revelations of Saint Birgitta
By: edited from the fifteenth-century ms. in the Garrett collection in the Library of Princeton University by William Patterson Cumming.
Contributors: Cumming, William Patterson, 1900-; Awdelay, John, fl. 1559-1577.; Princeton University. Library.
Series: Early English Text Society (Series).; 178.
Publisher: Kraus Reprint
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Millwood, N.Y
Language: enm
Number of pages: 135
Subjects: Private revelations -- Early works to 1800.; Visions -- Early works to 1800.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Translation of selections from: Revelationes.
Text in Middle English; notes in English.
Reprint. Originally published: London : Published for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, 1929. (Early English Text Society. Original series ; no. 178).
The Revelations, originally written in Swedish, were translated into Latin by one of the Saint's confessors. This Middle English version, written before 1475, contains selections which follow the Latin closely, though rearranged. The introduction includes John Awdelay's Salutation to St. Birgitta from Bodl. Ms. Douce 302.