REVELATIONES S. BIRGITTAE.
Vellum, 12.25 x 8.25, ff. 340, double columns of 40 lines. Early 15th cent. (?), in good clear hand, 2 fo. redibus et.
Donor, T. C. S.
From Syon Monastery.
Collation: 110 28 38 410 - 3010 316 3210 338 3410 3510.
Contents:
Inc. prologus in libros celestes
reuelacionum dei beate Brigide prin-
cipisse Nericie Swecie diuinitus
reuelatos . . . . f.
1
Stupor et mirabilia audita sunt
-ab ipso missa fatebantur. Expl. prol.
In nomine domini inc. rubrice libri
primi, etc. . . . . 3b
Capitula of libb. I - VII followed by:
rubrice capitulorum epistole siue
tractatus cuiusdam solitarii ad
reges.
In nomine domini Inc. liber primus
celestis reuelacionum dei Beate
Brigide principisse Nericie de
regno swecie . . . . 27
Uerba d. n. I. C. ad suam electam
sponsam, etc. Cap. i.
Ego sum creator celi et terre.
Lib. II, f. 70; III, 102b; IV, 126b; V, 199; VI, 218; VII, 274.
Ending f. 297b: inter manus predictarum personarum emisit
spiritum.
Expl. ultimus liber celestis, etc., diuinitus
reuelatus. Finito libro
sit laus et gloria Christo. Amen.
The incipit of the Prologue corresponds
with Bale and Tanner's
account of Richard Lavenham's work
on the Revelations of
St Bridget. He was a Carmelite of Ipswich.
(Orationes siue meditationes S.
Brigide) . . . . . 297b
Hec oratio siue meditacio, etc. Benedicta et uenerabilis sis tu
domina mea.
The 4th and last ends f. 302b: solamen habuerunt, qui uiuis, etc.,
in sec. sec. Amen.
Finito libro, etc. Amen. Expl. oratt. siue
meditt. b. Brigide etc. diuinitus
reuelate. Deo gracias. Amen.
Inc. capitula libri celestis
imperatoris ad reges diuinitus reuelati
b. Brigide princ. Nericie de regno Swecie . . . . 303
Text.
Uidi palacium grande . . . . . . . 305b
Ends: Et quedam uirgo stabat. etc. ut
supra li0 vii0 cap0 penultimo.
Expl. lib. imp. celestis b. Brigide
reuelatus.
Inc. Epistola siue tractatus cuiusdam
solitarii ad reges.
Capitula . . . . . . . . . . 329b
Text.
O serenissimi reges eu utinam ueri reges . . . . 330
Ends f. 340b: multipharie diffuseque loquencium. Deo gr. Amen.
R. Ellis, 'Flores ad fabricandam in coronam: an investigation of the uses of the Revelations of St Bridget of Sweden in fifteenth century England', Medium Aevum 51 (1982), 163-86.
B. Bergh (ed.), Revalaciones Sancta Birgitta, Samlingar utgivna av Svenska fornskriftsallskapet. Series 2, Latinska skrifter, 7:1 (1967), pp. 181-2, and 7:7 (1967), pp. 45-51.