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The Medieval Church · printed 1492
The Book of Revelations, Printed
Birgitta of Sweden · c. 1303–1373
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What it is
The first printed edition of Birgitta's revelations, produced at Lübeck with woodcuts, which carried her visions to a European readership.
Why it lasted
An early demonstration of what printing did for devotional literature — a fourteenth-century Swedish widow's visions becoming continental bestsellers.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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