Bishop Hemming of Turku, Finland, St Birgitta of Sweden, Urdialu, Finland
Birgitta of Sweden, Revelationes, Autograph Manuscript, Royal Library, Stockholm, Sweden http://libraries.theeuropeanlibrary.org/treasures_en.xml§
To see the two Lund University manuscripts of
Birgitta's Revelationes: http://laurentius.lub.lu.se/§
IRGITTA of Sweden
(1303-1373) and Julian of Norwich
(1342-141?) were contemporaries, Julian being born the year
of Birgitta's Arras Vision of St Dionysius
concerning the Hundred Years' War between the Kings of
England and France, 1342, Birgitta's Vision of the Crucifix
at St Pauls outside the Walls, in Rome, being in 1368, and
Julian's Vision of the Crucifix in
1373, the year of Birgitta's death in Rome. Birgitta, the
mother of eight children and Mother Foundress of the
Brigittine Order, travelled on pilgrimage and into
exile: to Trondheim, Compostela, Rome, and Jerusalem. She
and her daughter worked with Catherine of Siena
defending the Papacy. All three women, Birgitta of Sweden,
Catherine of Siena,
and Julian of Norwich, wrote
books called Revelations, Birgitta's unfolding from
1345 until her death in 1373, Catherine's, 1377-1378,
Julian's perhaps from 1368-1413. Margery Kempe copied them. These
women are linked by the Norwich Benedictine, Cardinal Adam Easton who wrote the Defensorium Sanctae Birgitta
in Norwich, 1389-1391, defending women's visionary writings,
having already written his Defensorium Ecclesiastice
Potestatis, 1379-1380, against Dante 's De Monarchia.
The entire Revelationes in Latin by
St Birgitta of Sweden. Scholar
Books III and VI above are marked with double asterisks * to indicate their printed editions need to be consulted. Hard copy volumes are published by the Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells. For purchasing volumes (not all are still in print) inquire by e-mail to: Almqvist & Wiksells
Book II, Birgitta of Sweden, Revelaciones II (1492) Sweden
*Book III, Birgitta of Sweden, Revelaciones III (1492) The Book for Priests 1349-1373
Book IV, Birgitta of Sweden, Revelaciones IV Miscellany
Book V, Birgitta of Sweden and Magister Mathias The Book of Questions, Sweden
*Book VI, Birgitta of Sweden, Revelaciones VI (1492) Miscellany
Book VII, Birgitta of Sweden, Revelaciones VII The Book of Pilgrimage 1372-1373
Book VIII, Birgitta of Sweden, Revelaciones VIII (1492) The Book of Politics
Book IX, Birgitta of Sweden, Revelaciones IX Extravagantes
Book X, Birgitta of Sweden, Revelaciones X The Book of the Rule
Book XI, Birgitta of Sweden, Revelaciones XI The Book of the Angel
Book XII, Birgitta of Sweden, Revelaciones XII Four Prayers
Book XIII, Alfonso of Jaén, Epistola Solitarii, Revelaciones XIII Preface to Book VIII
St Birgitta gives Revelationes to Bishop Hermit
Alfonso, Woodblock, Ghotan, 1492
To retrieve the following
essays click on their underlined titles:
Influence on St
Birgitta of Sweden:
Saint Agnes and Saint Cecilia: Ambered in Eucharist General/Contemplative/Scholar
Helena, Egeria, Paula, Eustochium, Bridget, Guthrithyr, Margaret, Isolda, Birgitta, Catherine, Margery: The Bible and Women Pilgrims English. General/Scholar
Jo Ann McNamara 'Cornelia's Daughters: Paula and Eustochium' General/Scholar
Margaret of Jerusalem/Beverley and Thomas of Beverley/Froidmont, Her Brother, Her Biographer English/Latin Scholar/General
Thomas de Froidmont/'Bernard of Clairvaux', Written for his Sister, The Golden Epistle, Amherst Manuscript Middle English This text much beloved by St Birgitta who owned it in a manuscript from Spain, perhaps given her by Alfonso of Jaen. Contemplative/Scholar
Guigo II Ladder of Four Degrees Contemplative/Scholar/General
Both Birgitta of Sweden and Margery Kempe were associated with clerics who read Cardinal Jacques de Vitry writing on Marie d'Oignies . Peregrina Website gives relevant text. Latin. Scholar
St Clare of Assisi. Privilege of Poverty I: Privilege, Testament and Blessing Latin Scholar/Contemplative/General
St Clare of Assisi. Privilege of Poverty II: Regula Sanctae Clarae Latin Scholar/Contemplative
A Cell of Self Knowledge: The Pilgrimage Within, Christina of Markyate, Angela of Foligno, Umilta` of Faenza, Margaret Kirkeby (Margaret Heslyngton, Emma Stapleton), Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Francesca Romana, Elizabeth Barton General/Contemplative/Scholar
For Nicholas of Lyra,
who influenced Magister Mathias,
Birgitta of Sweden and Adam Easton,
see Grover Furr's pdf files
retrievable from http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/mel/medievalftp.html§ Scholar
Nicolas of Lyra, Postilla super t.B. Romans thru Apocaplyse, poor copy Venice 1488.pdf || Nicolas of Lyra, Postilla super totam Bibliam. Genesis to Job. Venice 1488.pdf || Nicolas of Lyra, Postilla super totam Bibliam. Psalms to Ecclus. Strassb. 1492.pdf || Nicolas of Lyra, Postilla super totam Bibliam. Isaiah to end of O.T. Strassb. 1492.pdf || Nicolas of Lyra, Postilla super totam Bibliam. Gospels. Strassb. 1492.pdf || Nicolas of Lyra, Postilla super totam Bibliam. Romans thru Jude. Venice 1488.pdf || Nicolas of Lyra, Postilla super totam Bibliam. Apocalypsis. Strassb. 1492.pdf || Entire Latin Text. Scholar
Her Texts:
St Birgitta of Sweden Revelaciones
The Entire Latin Text. Scholar
Using the Diskettes Published by Swedish Scholars, of the Complete Latin Texts, Based on Their Critical Editions, and Where Lacking on the Lübeck: Ghotan 1492 Editio Princeps.
Her Liturgy:
St Birgitta Lessons, Syon Abbey: First Week English. Contemplative
St Birgitta Lessons, Syon Abbey: Second Week English. Contemplative
St Birgitta Lessons, Syon Abbey: Third Week English. Contemplative
The above Modern English version was read daily at Brigittine Syon Abbey in Devon. Latin and Swedish Texts of the Brigittine Lessons are published in Den heliga Birgitta och den helige Petrus av Skänninge, Officium parvum beate Marie Virginis, ed. Tryggve Lundén (Lund, 1976), Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis: Studia Historico-Ecclesiastica Upsaliensia 27-28; Latin Text, Sancta Birgitta, Opera Minora II: Sermo Angelicvs (RevelationesXI ), ed. Sten Eklund (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1972); Middle English Text in The Myroure of oure Ladye, ed. John Henry Blunt ( Early English Text Society , Extra Series, 29), Modern English Text in The Word of the Angel, trans. John Halborg (Peregrina Publishing).
Johannis Johannes Kalmarnensis. A Paradiso Document in the Florentine Archives, Written at Vadstena, 1397 . Scholar. Discussion by Birger Bergh, Daniela De Rosa, Jeremy DuQuesnay Adams, Monica Hedlund, Boyd Hill, Julia Bolton Holloway, Tore Nyberg and Bonnie Wheeler. English/Latin/italiano Scholar/General
James Hogg Cardinal Adam Easton's Letter to the Abbess of Vadstena English/Latin. Scholar
St Birgitta of Sweden: Her Relics General/Scholar/ContemplativeA Tower of Mirrors: Married Women Saints General/Scholar/Contemplative
Hard Copy English Versions of St Birgitta's Revelations and Vita:
The Liber Celestis of St Bridget of Sweden: The Middle English Version in British Library MS Claudius Bi, together with a life of the saint from the same manuscript , ed. Roger Ellis. London: Oxford University Press, 1987. Early English Text Society 291. Scholar
The Revelations of Saint Birgitta, Edited from the Fifteenth-Century Manuscript in the Garrett Collection in the Library of Princeton University, ed.William Patterson Cumming. London: Oxford University Press, 1929. Early English Text Society 178. Scholar
Birgitta of Sweden: Life and Selected Revelations, ed. Marguerite Tjader Harris, trans. Albert Ryle Kezel, introd. Tore Nyberg. New York: Paulist Press , 1990. [This work includes the Life, Book V, 'The Book of Questions', Book VII, and the Four Prayers.] General
Julia Bolton Holloway. Saint Bride and Her Book: St Birgitta's Revelations. Translated from Middle English with Introduction, Notes and Interpretative Essay. Newburyport: Focus, 1992; Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer , 2000. [This work translates the Life from a document written in the hand of Johannes Johannis Kalmarnensis (a Brigittine monk who was on mission in England), preserved at Florence's Brigittine Paradiso, and the Revelations from the Princeton University Library Garrett Manuscript in Middle English which was translated by two persons at Syon Abbey, one seeming to be a monk, the other a nun, presenting sections from Books I, II, IV, VI, VII.] Scholar/General/Contemplative
Birger Gregersson and Thomas Gascoigne , The Life of Saint Birgitta, ed. Julia Bolton Holloway. Toronto: Peregrina Publishing , 1991. Middle English, trans. into Modern English. General/Scholar
Her Influence:
Anchoress and Cardinal: Julian of Norwich and Adam Easton, O.S.B. English General/Scholar
Iris Origo Ser Lapo Mazzei writes to Messer Francesco Datini about Beata Brigida In Progress
Birgitta of Sweden, Rivelazioni, trans. Cristofano di Gano for Catherine of Siena's Cenacolo In Progress Scholar/Contemplative italiano
Ann Roberts Beata Chiara Gambacorta of Pisa and Saint Birgitta of Sweden Scholar
The Julian of Norwich, Showing of Love and its Contexts Website General/Scholar/Contemplative
Textual Communities and Gendered Audiences: Julian of Norwich and The Cloud of Unknowing Scholar
Julian of Norwich The Brigittine Syon Abbey/Westminster Cathedral Showing of Love Manuscript General/Contemplative/Scholar
The Mystics' Internet: Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Margery of Lynn, Chiara of Pisa, and Francesca of Rome English. General/Scholar
The Soul a City: Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe English and Middle English. Scholar/ Contemplative/General
Syon Abbey: The XV Os of the Crucifixion Scholar
Santa Francesca Romana and the Tor de' Specchi General/Scholar
Maiju Lehmijoki St Birgitta of Sweden's Influence in Finland English. General/Scholar
Julian at Prayer in a Lambeth Manuscript Contemplative prayers in a Julian-related manuscript from Syon Abbey now at Lambeth Palace. Scholar/Contemplative
Julian of Norwich's Showing in a Nutshell: The Manuscripts and their Contexts On Brigittine Syon Abbey Manuscripts of Julian of Norwich. General/Scholar
Dame Catherine Gascoigne, O.S.B., Father Augustine Baker's Way of Prayer Contemplative/Scholar/General
Folio, Manuscript, Paleography, Codicology On Brigittine manuscripts, etc. General/Scholar
Birgitta Celebrations, 1999 General
His Holiness John Paul
II Co-Patronesses of Europe:
Saints Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Teresa
Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), October 1, 1999 General
His Holiness Benedict XVI Saint Birgitta, Women and the Church
http://www.regione.sicilia.it/beniculturali/bibliotecacentrale/menu.html§ 'Tesori' section once gave excerpts from Palermo Revelationes
Revelationes manuscript overseen by Alfonso de Jaén
Lund, Lunds universitetkbiblioteket 'Medieval Manuscripts at Lund University Library - Preservation and Access Manuscripts: Preservation and Access', http://laurentius.lub.lu.se§
B. N. Msc. N 43 Bibl. (Ms. H.
L. a), Codex Falkenberghianus, written in hand of Johannes Johannis Kalmarnensis
This link will
take you to the present Vadstena Convent: http://www.birgittaskloster.se/index.php?h=9&l=sv
And for
Brigittine Syon Abbey in England see http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/SyonAbbey.htm
Madre Tecla and John Paul II, 6/4/2005:
Indices
to Umiltà Website's Julian Essays:
Preface
Influences
on Julian
Her Self
Her
Contemporaries
Her Manuscipt
Texts ♫
with recorded readings of them
About Her
Manuscript Texts
After Julian,
Her Editors
Julian in our
Day
Publications related to Julian:
Saint Bride and Her Book: Birgitta of Sweden's Revelations Translated from Latin and Middle English with Introduction, Notes and Interpretative Essay. Focus Library of Medieval Women. Series Editor, Jane Chance. xv + 164 pp. Revised, republished, Boydell and Brewer, 1997. Republished, Boydell and Brewer, 2000. ISBN 0-941051-18-8
To see an example of a
page inside with parallel text in Middle English and Modern
English, variants and explanatory notes, click here. Index to this book at http://www.umilta.net/julsismelindex.html
Julian of
Norwich. Showing of Love: Extant Texts and Translation. Edited.
Sister Anna Maria Reynolds, C.P. and Julia Bolton Holloway.
Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo (Click
on British flag, enter 'Julian of Norwich' in search
box), 2001. Biblioteche e Archivi
8. XIV + 848 pp. ISBN 88-8450-095-8.
To see inside this book, where God's words are
in red, Julian's in black, her
editor's in grey, click here.
Julian of
Norwich. Showing of Love. Translated, Julia Bolton
Holloway. Collegeville:
Liturgical Press;
London; Darton, Longman and Todd, 2003. Amazon
ISBN 0-8146-5169-0/ ISBN 023252503X. xxxiv + 133 pp. Index.
To view sample copies, actual
size, click here.
'Colections'
by an English Nun in Exile: Bibliothèque Mazarine 1202.
Ed. Julia Bolton Holloway, Hermit of the Holy Family. Analecta
Cartusiana 119:26. Eds. James Hogg, Alain Girard, Daniel Le
Blévec. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Universität Salzburg, 2006.
Anchoress and Cardinal: Julian of
Norwich and Adam Easton OSB. Analecta Cartusiana 35:20 Spiritualität
Heute und Gestern. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und
Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 2008. ISBN
978-3-902649-01-0. ix + 399 pp. Index. Plates.
Teresa Morris. Julian of Norwich: A
Comprehensive Bibliography and Handbook. Preface,
Julia Bolton Holloway. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.
x + 310 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-7734-3678-7; ISBN-10:
0-7734-3678-2. Maps. Index.
Fr Brendan
Pelphrey. Lo, How I Love Thee: Divine Love in Julian
of Norwich. Ed. Julia Bolton Holloway. Amazon,
2013. ISBN 978-1470198299
Julian among
the Books: Julian of Norwich's Theological Library.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, 2016. xxi + 328 pp. VII Plates, 59
Figures. ISBN (10): 1-4438-8894-X, ISBN (13)
978-1-4438-8894-3.
Mary's Dowry; An Anthology of
Pilgrim and Contemplative Writings/ La Dote di
Maria:Antologie di
Testi di Pellegrine e Contemplativi.
Traduzione di Gabriella Del Lungo
Camiciotto. Testo a fronte, inglese/italiano. Analecta
Cartusiana 35:21 Spiritualität Heute und Gestern.
Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Universität Salzburg, 2017. ISBN 978-3-903185-07-4. ix
+ 484 pp.
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