A LEAF FROM THE REVELATIONS OF ST BRIDGET OF SWEDEN, in German, manuscript on vellum [Germany, mid-15th century]
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A LEAF FROM THE REVELATIONS OF ST BRIDGET OF SWEDEN, in German, manuscript on vellum [Germany, mid-15th century]

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A LEAF FROM THE REVELATIONS OF ST BRIDGET OF SWEDEN, in German, manuscript on vellum [Germany, mid-15th century]

310 x 240mm. 41 lines of text in 2 columns, ruled space: 270 x 190mm, the text opening the 6th book of the Revelations and containing rubrics for Chapters 1-18 (staining and spotting, creasing and holes from use as a binding fragment).

Bridget of Sweden (1303-1373), born as Birgitta Birgersdotter, also Birgitta of Vadstena, was a mystic and saint, and founder of the Bridgettines nuns and monks after the death of her husband of twenty years. Her visions of Christ were recorded and translated into Latin by Matthias, canon of Linköping, and by her confessor, Peter Olafsson, prior of Alvastra. The text was extremely popular during the Middle Ages and an important source of iconography for the late 14th and 15th centuries.