Jan van Ruusbroec, Vanden geesteliken tabernakel

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Antwerpen, Ruusbroecgenootschap, Neerl. 15/3

General Information

Title Jan van Ruusbroec, <i>Vanden geesteliken tabernakel</i>
Shelfmarks Antwerpen, Ruusbroecgenootschap, Neerl. 15/3
Former Shelfmarks Fragm. Averbode C
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Brabant
Date of Origin second half 14th century
Script, Hands

1 hand. Northern littera gothica textualis.

Original Condition

Page Height 172 – 177 mm
Page Width 121 – 123 mm
Height of Written Area 138 mm
Width of Written Area 82 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 82 mm
Number of Lines 30
Ruling Ruling no longer visible.
More about the Condition

Prickings visible in outer margins.

Current Condition

Extent 1 bifolium
Dimensions 177 x 123 mm
More about the Current Condition

Restored in 1982 by Lucie M. Gimbrère.

Additional notes: on fol. [1]r in upper margin, 'Testamenta' in sixteenth-century hand; on fol. [1]r in outer margin, a note by D.A. Stracke (1925); on fol. [2]v in upper margin, 'Monasterij Auerbodien' (upside down).

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Versals with red colour stroking.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons Jan van Ruusbroec
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title <i>Vanden geesteliken tabernakel</i>
    • Content Description

      Fol. [1] contains a part of Cap. 52, fol. [2] contains a part of Cap. 56.

    • fol. [2]v-[1]r
    • Edition Van Ruusbroec, Jan, Werken. Deel 2. Vanden gheesteliken tabernakel, ed. by Jean Baptiste David (Gent: Maetschappy der Vlaemsche Bibliophilen, 1858)

History

Provenance

Fragment was kept at Averbode Abbey, where it was discovered by Desideer Stracke in 1926. The fragment presumably stayed in the Ruusbroecgenootschap library afterwards.

Host Volume

Remarks

According to Stracke the fragment was used as cover for a sixteenth-century ledger at Averbode Abbey.

Bibliography