The polyptych originally had a predella, which Miklos Boskovits has identified with five predella panels in the Gemaldegalerie in Berlin. The predellas in Berlin are attributed on the basis of style to Martino di Bartolomeo.

These predellas have as their theme the achievements and miracles of Saint Birgitta of Sweden, the mystic and reformer who died in Italy in 1373. After her death, her visions and prophecies were edited by her confessor, Alfonso Pecha da Vadaterra, Bishop of Jaen, who circulated copies of the Liber Celestis Revelationum all over Europe. Birgitta also founded a monastic order, based - like the Dominicans' - on the rule of St Augustine; the order flourished in the fifteenth century not only in her native Sweden, but in Italy, the Lowlands, and England. She was canonized in 1391, and her sanctity was confirmed in 1419 by Martin V.[52]. Although she was championed by powerful members of the order, her feast was not entered on the Dominican calendar. So her presence in the high altarpiece for the church of San Domenico cannot be linked to the order's own liturgy.

композиция:
Мария Магдалина
Mary Magdalene

Св. Доминик

St Dominic with his book and lily

Богородица и Младенец

Virgin and Child

Св. Иоанн Богослов

St John the Evangelist

Св. Бригитта Шведская

St Birgitta of Sweden

автор:
Мартино ди Бартоломео
Martino di Bartolomeo
место:
Берлин: Гос. музеи в Берлине, Картинная гал.
Berlin:Gemaldegalerie
композиция:
Св. Бригитта записывает слова ангела
Birgitta writing down the words of an angel

Св. Бригитта пишет под диктовку Христа и БР

Birgitta writing down what Christ and the Virgin dictate

Видение Рождества св. Бригитте

St Birgitta's vision of the Nativity

Явление св. Бригитты

Appearance of St Birgitta in the dream of a Swedish princess standing on a column with red and white roses pouring from her mouth

Св. Бригитта спасает паломников от кораблекрушения

St Birgitta delivers of pilgrims from a shipwreck