Revelationes, etc

Description

Title: Revelationes, etc
Creator: Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, approximately 1303-1373
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1500]
Publication Place: Germany
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of St. Birgitta, Revelationes. With the Life of St. Birgitta and several prayers, one of which is in German. Written by the abbot of the monastery of Maria Forst (near Cologne).
Description: In Latin.
Watermarks: similar to Briquet Lettre P 8619 and 8625.
Script: Written in a well formed running hand by a single scribe who has been identified as Freiherr von Greifenclav. Divisions for indexing carefully noted in margins.
Large penwork initials of mediocre quality, in red and blue; foliage designs in center of letters and penwork borders, in red, are sometimes accompanied by vulgar green dots. Many simple initials, 7- to 1-line, in red or blue; running titles in red. Rubricated throughout.
Binding: Between 1850 and 1900. Mottled, brown calf case, gold-tooled with monogram of comte Paul Riant on spine. Detached from bookblock.
Provenance: Belonged to comte Paul Riant. His Scandinavian library was presented to Yale University by Mrs. Henry Farnam, in 1896.
Extent: ff. iii + 401 + iv : 276 x 208 (222 x 145) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Cologne (Germany)
Subject (Name): Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, approximately 1303-1373.
Subject (Topic): Christian hagiography
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval
Prayers
Women mystics
Subjects: Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, approximately 1303-1373
Christian hagiography
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Prayers > Early works to 1800
Women mystics
Cologne (Germany)
Germany > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: St. Birgitta, Revelationes, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.