Liber revelationu[m] celestiu[m] d[omi]ne Birgitte de swecia.

Accession number:

PML 33326

Author:

Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, approximately 1303-1373.

Published:

Lübeck : Bartholomaeus Ghotan [for Vadstena Monastery], [before 25 November] 1492.

Description:

[422] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 35 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1936.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf b5r): Incipit Primus liber Revelationu[m] celestiu[m] d[omi]ne Birgitte de swecia.
Colophon (leaf C10r): Mille quadringe[n]ti nonaginta duo simul anni / Christi quando fere. de nativitate fuere / Hoc mundi lumen. miserans celeste volumen / Quod dedit ipse deus. Imp[re]ssit Bartholomeus Ghotan | tu[n]c sospes. Lubcensis civis et hospes / Sit laus inde deo. Sit merces bartholomeo / Pax sit terrigenis | requies animabus egenis / Regnu[m] Bothoru[m] muniat deus atq[ue] Suecoru[m]. [Printer's mark I]
Printed in Ghotan's types 3:162G, 5:104G, and 9:85G.
Collation: a¹² b-l¹⁰ m⁸ n-p¹⁰ q⁸ r-z¹⁰ [et]⁸ t̄ [paragraph mark] aa-ee¹⁰ ff⁸; A-C¹⁰; [a]-g¹⁰ h⁸: 422 leaves
Paper format: Median folio
23 woodcuts and woodcut initials.
With forewords by Johannes de Turrecremata and Matthias de Suecia.
Printed in 800 paper and 16 vellum copies, see Wolfgang Undorf, From Gutenberg to Luther: Transnational Print Cultures in Scandinavia 1450-1525. Diss. (HU Berlin, 2012), pp. 32-33.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33.1 x 22.7 cm

Binding:

Contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (34.5 x 24 cm), sewn on 4 supports by the Akelei workshop in Lübeck (EDBD w000903), active 1494-1515. Waste leaves from this edition (leaves z4.7 and e5.6) as front and rear pastedown/fly leaf; edges colored red. 2 clasps; 5 embossed and pierced bosses on each board.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Annotations: Pagination, 16th/17th century. Minimal marginal notation (leaf p8r only). Symbol (upward pointing arrow with a split tail and cross bar) added to armorial (leaf [a]1r).

Provenance:

Purchase inscription, 1542: "Gekaufft und bezalt vor funff [abrasion] Anno xlii" (leaf a1r); purchase inscription, 16th century: "Emptus est liber iste pro quinque mercibus lilb(?)" (leaf e9r); Fridericus Arnisaeus (d. 1654), of Copenhagen, Greek inscription (leaf a1r); Thomas Bartholin the Younger (1659-1690), of Copenhagen, ex donatione inscription, 1687 (a1v); Harrius Stacius(?), inscription: Ex Bibliotheca harrii Staceii (Striceii?) (leaf a1r); unidentified round stamp, abraded (leaf a1r); Lars von Engeström (1751-1826), Library of Benzelstierna-von Engeström family, incorporated into the Royal Library of Sweden, 1864; unidentified inscription: No. 320, in red crayon (leaf a1r); Pierpont Morgan Library, book label (front pastedown), purchased from L.C. Harper, Oct. 1936.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Woodcuts

Printers' devices (Printing)

Calf bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books