Bod-Inc: B-349
Birgitta
Revelationes.
Analysis of Content
[*1v] [Waldauf von Waldenstein, Florian(?)]: Prologus. Incipit: ‘Dum illustris ac nobilis vidua sancta Birgitta ex Suetia regali orta prosapia . . .’ Prologue announcing the financial backing of Florian Waldauf von Waldenstein for both the German and the Latin editions of this work, and of the backing of Maximilian I: see Montag, Birgitta, 104-23, 114-16 on the involvement of Wolfgang von Sandizell; see VL X 606-11, at 608-9.
[*2r] ‘Insignia regie maiestatis'.
[*2v] ‘Arma strennui militis Floriani Waldauf'.
[*3r] Turrecremata, Johannes de: ‘Epistola'. Incipit: ‘[I]ohannes miseratione diuina sacrosancte romane ecclesie tituli . . . Rogati deuota cum instantia per venerabiles et religiosos fratres . . .’ Authentication of the Defensorium; not found in Kaeppeli III 24-42.
[*3r] Turrecremata, Johannes de: Defensorium super revelationes caelestes s. Birgittae. Incipit: ‘ “[D]ixerunt Iudith, Ozias et presbyteri, Omnia quae locuta es vera sunt” [Idt 8,28] . . . Ista quippe verba quae secundum sensum litteralem . . .’ See B‑348.
[**3v] Johannes de Castello: ‘Littera testimonialis'. Incipit: ‘[V]niuersis et singulis christifidelibus . . . Ludouicus de Garsis vtriusque iuris doctor . . .’
[**4v] Jacobus: ‘Instrumentum notarii'. Incipit: ‘[I]n nomine indiuidue trinitatis . . .Ego Jacobus domini diui de Callio publicus apostolica et imperiali auctoritatibus notarius . . .’
[**5r] Three pages of woodcuts with revelatory texts. Incipit: ‘[E]go sum Deus tuus qui tecum loqui volo . . .’ The first leaf contains four, the others three woodblocks.
[**6v] Matthias de Suecia: Prologus. Incipit: ‘[S]tupor et mirabilia audita sunt in terra nostra . . .’ See B‑348.
[**8r] [Declaration of authenticity.] Incipit: ‘[B]enedictus deus a quo hoc liber inspiratus est . . .’
[**8r] ‘Phares voluminis infrascripti'. Incipit: ‘Diuide sic numen subscriptum, siue volumen'; 4 hexameters, a mnemonic poem listing the works of the volume.
a1r Birgitta: Revelationes i–vii. Incipit: ‘[V]erba domini nostri Ihesu Christi ad suam electam sponsam . . . Ego sum creator celi et terre, vnus in deitate cum patre et spiritu sancto . . .’ See B‑348.
z3v One page of woodcuts with revelatory texts. Incipit: ‘Ego sum similis carpentario . . .’
z4r Alphonsus, Bishop of Jaén: Epistola Solitarii ad reges. Incipit: ‘[O] serenissimi reges et vtinam veri reges in Christo domini mei . . . Quoniam moris regum existit velle curiose discutere . . .’ See B‑348.
A3r Birgitta: Revelationes viii; Liber celestis imperatoris. Incipit: ‘[V]idi palatium grande, incomprehensibile magnitudine . . .’
C3r Birgitta: Regula saluatoris. Opera minora. I. Regula salvatoris, ed. Eklund, ‘ Πtradition', 100-73.
D1r [Prologus in Sermonem angelicum.] Opera minora. II. Sermo angelicus, ed. Eklund, 75-6.
D1r Birgitta: Sermo angelicus. Opera minora. II. Sermo angelicus, ed. Eklund, 77-137.
E2v ‘Prohemium in orationes'. Opera minora. III. Quatuor oraciones, ed. Eklund, 65.
E2v Birgitta: Orationes. Opera minora. III. Quatuor oraciones, ed. Eklund, Δ-text, 66-92.
E6r Prologus in reuelationes celestes. Revelaciones extravagantes, ed. Hollman, 113-14.
E6r Birgitta: Revelationes extravagantes. Revelaciones extravagantes, ed. Hollman, 115-232.
H3v ‘Vita abbreuiata sanctae Birgittae.’ Incipit: ‘[B]enedictus sit deus pater et filius et spiritus sanctus. De cuius priuilegiata familiaritate . . .’
H6v [Editorial statement on pseudographic texts, with colophon.] Incipit: ‘Finit diuinum uolumen omnium celestium Reuelationum preelecte sponse Christi . . .’
[a1r] [Tabula.]
Imprint
Imprint: Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 21 Sept. 1500. Folio.
Remarks: Printed at the instigation of Maximilian I.
Collation
Collation: [*]6 [**] a–z A–F8 G H6 2a–f8 2g6.
Remarks: The first two sheets are unsigned, but numbered.
Illustrations: The woodcuts and woodcut initials are discussed in Collijn, Bibliografi, I 185-6.
References
ISTC: ib00688000
GW: GW 4392;
Hain: HC 3205;
Goff: Goff B‑688;
BMC: BMC II 445;
Proctor: Pr 2124;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑531; Collijn, Bibliografi, I 178-86; Rhodes 378; Schramm XVII p. 10; Schreiber V 3504; Sheppard 1555.
LCN: 13984330
Copies
Copy number: B-349(1)
Wanting the blank leaves A4 and2 g6.
Leaf H6 blank as GW, not as BMC.
Binding: Eighteenth-century English half calf.
Size: 310 × 210 × 45 mm.
Size of leaf: 305 × 197 mm.
A few early manuscript notes.
Twelve-, six-, and four-line initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes.
Provenance: Edward Medley (fl. c.1512-1515); inscription on [*]1v: ‘Edwardus Medley p[reti]us iijs’. Thomas Marmion (†1583); signature on [*]1r. Presumably passed on to his wife Mary, born Shakerley (†1605) who in 1585 married Anthony Morgan (1569/70-1608/9). Presented in 1601: see Benefactors' Register I 32 where the date of the colophon has been misinterpreted as 1521; James, Catalogus (1605), 17 (B 2. 10 [Th.]); Jensen, ‘Benefactors' Register', no. 60.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: E 4. 10 Th.
SHELFMARK: E 1. 2 Th.
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