Palermo, Biblioteca centrale della Regione siciliana, Fondo Monreale 19, 17th century.

Description

Paper manuscript, 140 x 98 mm. 118 cc. Old signum XXV.B.21.

Contains nine prayers collected from the Revelations. Compare with the following text editions:

Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones lib. I cum prologo magistri Mathie. 1978. Carl-Gustaf Undhagen (ed.). (SFSS, Ser. 2, Latinska skrifter VII:2.) Stockholm, p. 430. Available at Litteraturbanken.

Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones lib. IV. 1992. Hans Aili (ed.). Stockholm, p. 272. Available at Litteraturbanken.

Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones lib. V. 1971. Birger Bergh (ed.). Uppsala, p. 129. Available at Litteraturbanken.

Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones lib. VI. 1991. Birger Bergh (ed.). Stockholm, p. 69, 136, 171 f., 243. Available at Litteraturbanken.

Content

  • c. 23v: “Oratio in tribulatione dicenda reuelata S. Brigitte lib. 5 reuel. 5 cap. 10” and “Oratio ad obtinendam missam, et peccatorum remissionem. Reuel. S. Brig. e lib. 6 cap. 9”.

  • c. 24r: “Oratio super vexatos a demone reuelata eidem lib. 6 cap. 34”  and “Oratio contra demonem in eundum”.

  • c. 24v: “Pro concordandis discordibus Oratio S. Brigitte reuelata lib. 6 cap. 34”.

  • c. 28r: “Oratio ad Deum pro obtinenda uenia, lib. 1 reuelat. S. Brigitte cap. 57” and “Oratio eidem reuelata a Domino ad perseuerandum in bono lib. 4 cap. 89”.

  • cc. 28v–29r: “Oratio pro obtinenda dilectione Dei 6 lib. cap. 46”.

  • cc. 29r–29v: “Oratio eiusdem ad B. Mariam pro bono regimine corporis, et uoluntatis extram.”.

Provenance

  • The manuscript belonged to library of the monastery Santa Maria Nuova di Monreale in Sicily.