CATHERINE of Sweden Saint Incipit vita sive legenda cum mir

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(CATHERINE of Sweden, Saint.) Incipit vita sive legenda cum miraculis Divae Chaterinae filiae S. Birgittae de regno Suetiae. 2 woodcuts of St. Catherine. [10] leaves (the second through the sixth signed DDDii-vi). Folio, 290x207 mm, late 19th-/early 20th-century brown morocco richly blind-tooled in imitation gothic style by Gustav Hedberg (1859-1920), bookbinder to the Swedish court, with his label, hinges partly cracked; minor stains in gutters, insignificant worming in blank margins. [Rome: Francesco Ferrari, 1557]

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Section on the life and miracles of St. Catherine from the 1557 fourth edition in Latin of the Revelations of St. Bridget of Sweden, published in Rome by the exiled Swedish archbishop Olaus Magnus. Adams B2835; Klemming, Birgitta-Literatur 4; Collijn, Sveriges Bibliografi intill År 1600 II, 235-37