Birgitta Birgersdotter (heliga Birgitta)

ONUS MUNDI EX REVELATIONIBUS S. BIRGITTAE A JOHANNES TORTSCH COMPILATUM [Part one (of 2) only].

Rome, Eucharius Silber (Franck), 1485.
4to (paper size 16,5 by 12,5 cm). 40 leaves (first leaf blank). With forty-nine two- or three-line rubricated initials.
Modern half gilt-lettered motocco.
Provenance: Scheyern, Bavaria, Benedictines, BVM: inscription on leaf 2a: Monasterii Schyrensis; Royal Library, Munich; rubber stamp on last leaf: Bibliotheca Regis Monacensis;
from the library of Thore Virgin; from the library of Rolf Wistrand.

First edition in Latin of the first part, (often found separately (GW)), of Onus mundi [Burde der Welt], originally printed in German at Nürnberg 1481, and believed to be a work of Johannes Tortsch. This work, edited by Wolfgang von Sandizell, includes 21 chapters with excerpts from from Birgitta's Revelationes (Uppenbarelser), "followed by a chapter which asserts that the revelation to Birgitta had been predicted by many, and four chapters with revelations and prophecies by the Sibyl, Gregory the Great, Hildegard of Bingen and Joachim of Fiore respectively"(Borgenhammar & Sander Olsen at www.sanctabirgitta.com), and Festa S. Brgittae.

Birgitta Birgersdotter [1303-73], also Birgitta of Vadstena, Saint Birgitta, Saint Bridget (or Brigid) of Sweden, or in Swedish den heliga Birgitta, a mystic and saint (the only Swede ever to be canonised by a Catholic pope), founder of the Bridgettine Order after the death of her husband of twenty years. She was also the mother of a saint, Saint Catherine of Vadstena. As a child, she had already believed herself to have visions, later in life they became more frequent, and her records of these "Revelationes coelestes" ("Celestial revelations"), translated into Latin by Matthias, canon of Linköping, and by her confessor, Peter, prior of Alvastra, obtained a great vogue during the Middle Ages.
* Hain-Copinger 12012. Collin, 1, p. 46-50. Klemming 10. Stephan Borgehammar and Ulla Sander Olsen, ON-LINE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ST BIRGITTA AND THE BIRGITTINE ORDER, 7-8. Goff B675.