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Uppsala, Sweden: Elanders, Vallingby, 2006. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xxv, 312pp., (vi). This book is an edition of a manuscript from Vadstena Abbey containing the Birgittine sisters' official table readings in Old Swedish. Main body of text in old Swedish. Bound in original light blue wrappers. Staining and light wear to exterior. Several small bumps to extremities of volume. Text clean and binding sound

Trade Paperback. Publisher: Svenska fornsskriftssällskapet | | Trade Paperback | 312 p. | This book is brand new. | Series: Serie 1. Svenska skrifter | Language: Svenska --- Information regarding the book: This book is an edition of Cod. Holm. A 3, a manuscript from Vadstena abbey containing the Birgittine sisters' official table readings in Old Swedish, i.e., official text to be read aloud during meal time at the sisters' convent. The manuscript is dated 1502 according to its prologue, and is written by four different hands. The main scribes are known by their names, Katharina Gudhmundi and Anna Girmundi (both were nuns in the abbey). Maybe one of the anonymous hands may be the manuscript's corrector, Elseby Gjordsdotter. The manuscript was commissioned by the abbess Anna Fickesdotter.The manuscript, composed of 156 parchment leaves written on two columnist, contains 98 different texts, complete or partial, of devotion, such as Saint Birgitta's Revelations, commentaries on the Bible, Old Swedish… Read More