Torino, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, I.III.23, late 14th century (fragment).
Fragment from manuscript damaged in a fire in Biblioteca Nazionale in Turin 1904. Originally 304 cc. A photograph was taken from before the fire, showing a frontispiece similar to one in the Ericsberg manuscript (inserted between f. 69 and 70), kept in the Royal Library in Stockholm. The surviving fragment shows sign of another miniature.
The book is bound in two volumes, of which the end of the first was completely destroyed (ff. 149–160).
I. ff. 1r–148r: Rev. I–IV by St. Birgitta.
(Revelationes)I. f. 148r–148v: Rev. V by St. Birgitta (containing the book's beginning; the rest was destroyed).
(Revelationes)II. ff. 161–?: Rev. VI and VII by St. Birgitta.
(Revelationes)II. ff. ?–239r: Epistola solitarii by Alfonso of Jaén.
(Epistola solitarii ad reges)II. f. 239v: Blank.
II. ff. 240r–243v: List of rubrics in Rev. VIII.
II. ff. 243r–277v: Rev. VIII (Liber celestis) by St. Birgitta.
(Revelationes)II. ff. 277r: Full-page illumination (now destroyed).
II. ff. 278r–?: Probably Regula Salvatoris by St. Birgitta.
(Regula Salvatoris)
Assuming that the relations to the manuscripts below is correct, the dating is late 14th century, perhaps as early as 1379.
Aili (2003:55), however, dates the manuscript to after 1391, the time of St. Birgitta's canonization, since one of the illuminations depicts her with a halo.
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Likely related to New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 498 (Y), Palermo, Biblioteca centrale della regione Siciliana, IV G 2 (P) and Warszawa, Biblioteka Narodowa, 3310 (Tb).
Mentioned manuscripts:
Aili, Hans & Svanberg, Jan. 1994. Två tidiga Birgittahandskrifter – en återfunnen och en brunnen. Iconografisk post 1994:1, pp. 28–40.
Aili, Hans & Svanberg, Jan. 2003. Imagines Sanctae Birgittae. I. Text, II. Plates. Stockholm: Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, I. pp. 54–55, II. pl. 72, 73, 86.
Friedman, Joan Isobel. 1996. MS Cotton Claudius B.I.: a Middle English Edition of St Bridget of Sweden's Liber Celestis. In: R. Voaden (ed.), Prophets Abroad: The Reception of Continental Holy Women in Late-Medieval England. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 98 f.
Lindgren, Mereth. 1995. Birgittinska bilder i medeltida manuskript. In: C.-G. Undhagen & F. Vahlquist (eds.), Heliga Birgittas uppenbarelser 650 år. Lund: Univ. Library, pp. 30 note 5. Available online at Birgittastiftelsen (2019-10-22).
Mazzatinti, Giuseppe (founder). 1922. Inventari dei manoscritti delle biblioteche d'Italia. Vol. XXVIII (Torino). Firenze. P. 143. Available on Internet Archive (2019-10-22).
Nordenfalk, Carl. 1961. St Bridget of Sweden as Represented in Illuminated Manuscripts. In: M. Meiss (ed.), De Artibus Opuscula XL, Essays in Honour of Erwin Panofsky. Vol. I. New York, I. p. 379, n. 24.