Instructions for understanding the calendar

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Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.2582/076

General Information

Title Dutch instruction for understanding the calendar
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.2582/076
Former Shelfmarks Qc39
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Low Countries
Date of Origin 1448
Script, Hands

1 hand. Northern gothica textualis libraria.

Original Condition

Page Height at least 87 mm
Page Width 126 – 128 mm
Height of Written Area at least 72 mm
Width of Written Area 64 – 65 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 64 – 65 mm
Number of Lines at least 15
Line Height 5 mm
Ruling Full ruling in red ink
More about the Condition

Strips were originally part of the same page. Together they provide a continuous text.

Current Condition

Extent 2 strips
Dimensions 87 x 128 mm

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Pen-flourished initial with marginal extensions; red colour stroking and red underlined rubrics.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title Instruction for understanding the calendar
    • Remarks

      According to additional note (HS.2582/076A), the text was perhaps an introductory text to a larger book on (church) liturgy.

Host Volume

Title <i>D'Leven van den H. Dominicus fundateur der predick-heeren oorden</i>
Date of Origin/Publication 1622
Place of Origin/Publication Antwerp (printing house 'De Witte Lelie')
Shelfmark Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, BIB.ACC.000324
Persons Nicolaus Janssenius (author); Hendrick Aertssens (printer)
Remarks

Fragments were used as quire guards. They were taken out of the original binding in the nineteenth century when the book was being rebound.