Royal MS 7 C IX

LIBER PRIMUS [-sextus, the seventh is wanting] celestium revelacionum Dei beate Brigide principisse Nericie de regno Swecie diuinitus reuelatus': the revelations of S. Bridget, princess of Nerike in Sweden (d. 1373), in Latin, with the preface of Mathias, canon of Linköping. Printed, Lülbeck, 1492, Munich, 1680, &c. Imperfect. Prologue beg. 'Stupor et mirabilia audita sunt in terra nostra [Jer. v. 30]: Mirabile siquidem erat quod zelator'. After the prologue and title two leaves containing the beginning of the text (to cap. v 'contempserint, iusticiam meam sencient') are wanting, and at the end all after lib. vi, cap. lxvi, 'Tributaria diaboli et ei oma [giata. - Talis enim]. A note on f. 1 shows that John Theyer, who owned the MS. wrongly supposed it to contain not the revelations themselves but the lectures on them of the Carmelite Richard of Lavenham. On ff. 40, 192 is some scribbling of English verse in an early 16th cent. hand. Vellum; fff. 193. 121/4 in. x 81/2 in. XV cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves(i6, ii9), with catchwords. Sec.fol.'locus glorie'. Initials in red and blue. Belonged (late 15th cent.?) to John Wolman (f. 193). On f. 192, is the name (early 16th cent.) Symond Goldsmyth, Theyer sale-cat. no. 47 ; CMA, 6634.