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Critical edition. Introduction with analysis of genesis of the texts, description of working-model in the bishop’s chancery and presentation of the scribes. Analysis of the history of the manuscript after the Reformation.
Keywords: Old Swedish, medieval latin, Hans Brask, medieval letters, medieval chancery,…
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The primary aim of this book is to attempt to identify the author of Eric’s Chronicle. Previous argumentation regarding who commissioned the Chronicle has not been impartial, which has also obscured the issue of its authorship. Here it is argued that the instigator was lawspeaker Birger Persson, father of Saint…
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This dissertation contains the first critical edition of Exposicio super Apocalypsim, written by the Swedish 14th century theologian Magister Mathias Lincopensis. The commentary, which covers the first fifteen chapters of St. John’s Apocalypse, became well-known especially thanks to Bernardino of Siena and…
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Svenska fornskriftsällskapet (The Old Swedish Society) was founded as a non-profit association in 1844 for the purpose of publishing documents written in Swedish and Latin and composed in Sweden before about 1600, together with learned works dealing with such documents.
The present volume describes the history of the…
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The present volume is the second in a recently launched series intended to contain short contributions in which Old Swedish texts are published and/or commented on. The first essay, by Lennart Moberg, Emeritus Professor of Scandinavian Languages, deals with a text in ’Bridgettine Norwegian’ to be found in…
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Dans ce volume est présentée une édition d’une collection de sermons médiévaux. Le texte date du xve siècle; il est écrit en ancien suédois, mais il y a aussi des parties en latin, notamment des citations bibliques et patristiques. L’édition se base principalement sur le manuscrit Cod. AM 787 4°. Une…
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Hedda Gunneng & Börje Westlund discuss two autographic tracts (A and B) by Holy Bridget of Vadstena, concerning language and style. The tracts show how Bridget worked stylistically when she clad her revelations linguistically. The marked stylistic difference between the two tracts is attributable to the differing…
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This dissertation describes the Old Swedish Saints’ lives from a philological and stylistic view-point, relating vernacular hagiographic texts to social institutions.
A complete survey of manuscripts containing Old Swedish Saints’ lives and miracles is made. A stratified selection of the manuscripts is then…
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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…
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The parchment volume C 92 in Uppsala university library contains a catalogue of popes, a list of bishops and archbishops in Uppsala, a Swedish regnal list and an annal. The four texts were written at Uppsala cathedral by one hand, with later additions by other hands. The bishops’ and kings’ lists were written around…
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This critical edition of Liber III of the Reuelaciones of Saint Birgitta of Sweden is based on the readings of selected, medieval manuscripts. Furthermore, the text of the Editio princeps (impr. B. Ghotan, Lübeck 1492) has been used.
The edition also contains an apparatus criticus, an apparatus fontium, a bibliography,…
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The object of this dissertation is the range, distribution, and usage of words imported from Middle Low German in medieval charters originating from the Swedish province of Närke. The charters are all written in Old Swedish between the years 1350 and 1520.
The study reveals that some examples of certain imported words…
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In medieval western Europe, no capital cities existed. The rulers and their court were constantly travelling from place to place. In this book, the Swedish ‘travelling kingdom’ has been extensively studied. Everything known from the source material about day-by-day migrations of the royal court during four centuries…
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Roughly half of the pages of this dissertation constitute a critical edition of the late medieval nobleman Gregers Matsson’s account books, C 29-32 in the National Record Office (Riksarkivet), Stockholm. About 80 % of the material is assumed, on grounds of linguistic evidence and content, to have been written by…
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The literacy and learning that can be attributed to the female convent at Vadstena Abbey have not been yet thoroughly investigated, a lacuna this book aims to remedy. Through an analysis of the social community and a close reading of the texts transmitted by Cod. Holm. A 3, a significant manuscript used in the convent…
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This volume in Samlingar utgivna av Svenska fornskriftsällskapet is a catalogue of 325 watermarks in Swedish medieval law manuscripts and in the collection of medieval paper documents (up to 1500) in Uppsala university library. The catalogue contains images of the watermarks and references to the most important…
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Roughly two thirds of this volume constitutes a critical edition of the late medieval nobleman Gregers Matsson’s food and fodder book for Stegeborg 1487- 1492, C 33 in the National Record Office (Riksarkivet), Stockholm. This work, together with the previous Gregers Matsson’s account books (Gregers Matssons…
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The present volume comprises two essays containing text editions and short commentaries. The first deals with a copy of part a revelation by St Birgitta (Liber IV I 02) found in Copenhagen, the Royal Library, GkS 1154 2°. The text concerns the way a legal case should be heard and judged. Despite appearing in a…
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Just before Christopher of Bavaria took office as king of Sweden in 1442 a revision was made of the Common Law (”Magnus Erikssons landslag”). This revision, later called ”Kristoffers landslag”, had a very limited distribution, judging from the number of surviving manuscripts. The reason for the limited distribution, it…
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Roughly half of the pages of this volume constitute critical editions of two late medieval account books, kept for Falke Gregersson (Lillie) and his widow Britta Hansdotter (Tott), C 34 and C 35 respectively, in the National Record Office (Riksarkivet) , Stockholm. This work can be seen as a follow-up of the…
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This is a commented edition of a series of Late medieval (1500- 1513?) accounts connected to copper mining in the parish of Åtvid, now the town of Åtvidaberg, Sweden, and its vicinities.
Most of these accounts report deliveries of household wares from a central but undefined place in Åtvid to farmers, who partly seem…
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The present study is a codicological and textual investigation of Codex Holmiensis A 49 (Nådendals klosterbok), a large medieval (c. 1450) manuscript, written almost entirely in old Swedish and containing thirty different texts of various kinds. A 49 is believed to have belonged to the Birgittine House at Nådendal, a…
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The present volume contains the first critical edition of the Latin text of St. Birgitta’s (1303-73) Revelations, Book II. The edition is based on a collation of eleven selected MSS. which, in the editions of other Revelations books, have proved to be of high quality. In one of the introductory chapters, the…
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Svenska fornskriftsällskapet bildades 1843 och har alltsedan dess haft till syfte att ge ut äldre svenska skrifter, företrädesvis fornsvenska, samt arbeten som bygger på eller behandlar sådana; bland dessa kan nämnas Söderwalls fornsvenska ordbok med supplement. Länge var sällskapets intresse begränsat till skrifter…
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The Quattuor Oraciones were composed by St. Birgitta of Sweden and form a part of her Revelations. They have been edited with the aid of all the known MSS. The edition contains an introduction describing the history of the Latin and Old Swedish texts, the MSS and their interrelations, as well as discussions of textual…
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Svenska fornskriftsällskapet bildades 1843 och har alltsedan dess haft till syfte att ge ut äldre svenska skrifter, företrädesvis fornsvenska, samt arbeten som bygger på eller behandlar sådana; bland dessa kan nämnas Söderwalls fornsvenska ordbok med supplement. Länge var sällskapets intresse begränsat till skrifter…
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This is the first critical edition of Book VIII of the Reuelaciones of St. Birgitta of Sweden, a book that was originally conceived by its medieval editor, Alfonso of Jaen, as a Mirror of Kings, selected from 58 of Birgitta’s Revelations and entitled Liber celestis imperatoris ad reges. The edition bases its text…
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This thesis describes K. F. Söderwall’s dictionary Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket (1884–1918), Sdw, focusing on its representation of Old Swedish in relation to contemporaneous linguistics and lexicography. Lexicography is studied as part of the language sciences and in a socio-cultural context. The study draws…
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This critical edition of Liber IV of the Reuelaciones of Saint Birgitta of Sweden, like its predecessors in this series, bases its text upon the readings of selected, medieval manuscripts. The text of the Editio princeps (impr. B. Ghotan, Lübeck 1491) has been superseded, particularly in those ten Revelations of Liber…
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This volume contains three essays presenting investigations on various aspects of previously unedited texts or text fragments in Old Swedish. In the first contribution, Ingela Hedström presents a medieval manuscript kept in the library of Vasaskolan in Gävle. The manuscript contains a large number of prayers and has…
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The volume contains three major and five minor indices. Cross-references are given to three different number series used in the works. Manuscript signa in the editions are updated. Special indices on manuscript descriptions and datings of manuscripts are given. Indices are also given with information on outdated and…
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This work describes the writing practices of the Vadstena Abbey as they appear in the oldest extant charters of the Abbey. The Abbey is known for the extensive production of manuscripts there, but little is known of the oldest manuscripts as only a limited number have survived. However, charters are a type of text that…
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The present volume contains a critical edition and an English translation of Testa nucis and Poetria, both texts written by the Swedish 14th-century theologian Magister Mathias Lincopensis. Compared to the edition published by S. Sawicki in 1936, the present work offers another text in c. 140 passages, many of which…
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The present monograph deals with the A-redaction of the Old Swedish text Tungulus/Tundalus. This work is a translation and/or adaption of the Latin text Visio Tnugdali, present in a large number of manuscripts in medieval Europe. The Old Swedish A-redaction exists in four manuscripts that are of relevance for its early…