Beinecke MS 24 (olim Z109.031)                                       Germany, s. XV^^2
St. Birgitta, Revelationes, etc.

     1. f. 1r    [Table of Contents for Revelationes, Book 1:] //mirabilia
     continetur. Capitulum liii. Verba angeli ad sponsam de spiritu
     cogitacionum...predicanda per dei amicos personis ignorantibus.
     Capittulum lx. Expliciunt rubrice primi libri celestis reuelacionum dei
     beate Birgitte diuinitus reuelate.

     2. ff. 1r-398v    Sequitur prologus in libris celestibus reuelacionum
     dei Beate Birgitte diuinitus reuelatus. Stupor et mirabilia audita sunt
     in terra nostra mirabile si quidem erat...cum maxima deuocione et
     reuerencia inter manus predictarum personarum emisit spiritum. Explicit
     liber ultimus celestis reuelacionum dei beate Birgitte principisse
     Nerecie de regno Suecie diuinitus reuelatus. Deo gracias.

          Beinecke MS 24 appears in the critical edition (MS H) published in
     Samlinger utgivna av Svenska fornskriftsaellskapet (Lat. ser.); see C.-
     G. Undhagen, ed., Sancta Birgitta Revelationes Book I (Uppsala, l978)
     pp. 178-79, 199. Undhagen believes that the Yale codex was copied from
     MS Oa (Katrineholm, Ericsberg Slottsbibliothek, Library of Ericsberg
     Castle).

          For a detailed analysis of articles 3-7, see Undhagen, op.
          cit., p. l79, n. 7.

     3. ff. 399r-400r    Incipit vita beate Birgitte in teutonico sub
     breuitate conpilata. Sancta Birgitta ist geboren von den konigklichem
     stamme von gotlant...degelich nach irem dode an manchem enden in
     mancherhande wonder wercken von czeichen.

          C. Selmer, "Die spaetmittelhochdeutschen Bestandteile der
     lateinischen Birgitta-Handschrift der Universitaetsbibliothek zu Yale
     und ihre Dialecktbestimmung," PMLA 51 (1936) pp. 38-40.

     4. f. 400r-v    Oratio de sancta Birgitta. O amantissima christi sponsa
     summo principi in celestibus ualde....

     5. ff. 400v-401r    Oratio de beata Birgitta in teutonico. Ggegruset
     sistu werde heilge muder sancta Birgitta eyn behegelich brut....

          Selmer, op. cit., pp. 40-41.

     6. f. 40lr    Three short prayers de beata Birgitta.

     7. f. 401v    Incomplete prayer De sancta Birgitta, with seven parts:
     De ortu et origine eius...De ipsius commendacione.

          Paper (watermarks similar to Briquet Lettre P 8619 and 8625), ff.
     iii (paper) + 401 + iv (paper), 276 x 208 (222 x 145) mm. Written in
     two columns of 39-42 lines; frame-ruled in ink or lead, with some
     double inner vertical guide-lines and an occasional additional ruling
     in lower margin.
          I^^8, II-XL^^10 (+ 3 leaves at end; structure uncertain). Remains of
     catchwords along lower edge of folio in gutter; most trimmed.
          Written in a well formed running hand by a single scribe who has
     been identified as Freiherr von Greifenclav (see Provenance). Divisions
     for indexing carefully noted in margins.
          Large penwork initials of mediocre quality, in red and blue;
     foliage designs in center of letters and penwork borders, in red, are
     sometimes accompanied by vulgar green dots. Many simple initials, 7- to
     1-line, in red or blue; running titles in red. Rubricated throughout.
          Binding: s. xix^^2. Mottled, brown calf case, gold-tooled with
     monogram of comte Paul Riant on spine. Detached from bookblock.

          Written in Germany in the second half of the 15th century by a
     scribe identified as Freiherr von Greifenclav, abbot of the monastery
     of Maria Forst (near Cologne). See Selmer, op. cit., pp. 56-57.
     Belonged (ca. 1860) to the Bischoefliche Seminar-Bibliothek at Hamburg
     (stamp on f. lr); in 1882 it was sold by C. H. Beck of Noerdlingen
     (Cat. l55, no. 52) to comte Paul Riant (booklabel; L. de Germon and L.
     Polain, Catalogue de la Bibliotheque de feu M. le comte Riant [Paris,
     1896] v. 1, p. 360, no. 2472). His Scandinavian library was presented
     to Yale University by Mrs. Henry Farnam, in 1896 (A. B. Benson, "The
     Scandinavian Collection," Gazette 8 [1933] pp. 49-53).

     secundo folio: vane glorie

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 1, p. 166, no. 24.
          U. Montag, Das Werk der heiligen Birgitta von Schweden in
     oberdeutscher Ueberlieferung (Munich, 1968) p. 40.

Barbara A. Shailor