Jan van Ruusbroec, Vanden geesteliken tabernakel
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Antwerpen, Ruusbroecgenootschap, Neerl. 15/3
Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023 (Born Digital)
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
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Content Item
- Persons Jan van Ruusbroec
- Text Language Middle Dutch
- Title <i>Vanden geesteliken tabernakel</i>
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Content Description
Fol. [1] contains a part of Cap. 52, fol. [2] contains a part of Cap. 56.
- 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
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Stracke, Desideer A., ‘Een fragment van Ruusbroec’s Tabernakel’, Tijdschrift voor taal en letteren, 16 (1928), 141–49