St Brigitta (c1302-73) - photo 1

St Brigitta (c1302-73)

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£ 8 000
Auction dateClassic
09.12.2020 00:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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Lot 124 | St Brigitta (c1302-73)
St. Brigitta (c.1302-73)

Himlische Offenbarung 1502

BIRGITTA, Saint (c.1302-1373). Das puch der himlischen Offenbarung der heiligen wittiben Birgitte von dem Künigreich Sweden. Nuremberg: Florian Waldauf, Anton Koberger, 1502.



First complete German edition, and first High German translation, hand-coloured throughout by a contemporary hand; extracts in Low German had been printed in Lübeck c.1478, 1485 and 1496 (GW 4393-4395). The woodcuts are those used in the 1500 Latin edition. The work of preparing this edition for the press seems to have been done at the Brigittine monastery of Maihügen by Jörg Knösinger working at the behest of Florian Waldauf von Waidenstein whose arms appear here as they do in the Koberger 1500 Latin edition. USTC 627947; VD16 B-5596.



Folio (285 x 200mm). Without final blank, 17 full page woodcut illustrations including title-page, composed of 58 woodcuts and printed from 29 blocks, all hand-coloured by a contemporary hand (tiny marginal tears to L1 and c5, small marginal chip to T4, tiny wormhole to text from o2 until end with loss of some letters, some light browning, final quire stained). Slightly later blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, clasps (extremities rubbed). Provenance: contemporary 16th-century marginalia in multiple hands – Ritman Library ('Philosophia Hermetica' bookplate).

Genre:Religious genre
Place of origin:Germany
Category:Book
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