Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea, Middle Dutch translation
St Peter ad Vincula (1 August); Pope Stephen I (2 August); St Dominic (4 August)
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Mechelen, Stadsarchief Mechelen, V 737
Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023 (Born Digital)
General Information
Title
Jacobus de Voragine, <i>Legenda aurea</i>, Middle Dutch translation
Shelfmarks
Mechelen, Stadsarchief Mechelen, V 737
Material
Parchment
Place of Origin
Brabant
Date of Origin
mid 15th century (ca. 1440-1450)
Script, Hands
Northern gothica textualis libraria, multiple hands.
Original Condition
Page Height
313 mm
Page Width
235 mm
Height of Written Area
234 mm
Width of Written Area
167 mm
Number of Columns
2
Number of Lines
45
Ruling
Full lead-point ruling
Numbering
Modern foliation using Arabic numerals in pencil, written in the top right corners of the recto sides.
Current Condition
Extent
2 bifolia
Dimensions
313 x 235 mm
More about the Current Condition
Prickings are visible in the outer margins of the leaves, which were added at a later point in time. The leaves were possibly bound to each other with string.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
Red plain initials, red rubrication, red colour stroking.
Content
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Content Item
- Persons Jacobus de Voragine (author)
- Text Language Middle Dutch
- Title <i>Legenda aurea</i>, Middle Dutch translation (Southern Netherlandish translation)
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Content Description
- Fol. 1r, col. A: St Peter ad Vincula [1 August], Southern Netherlandish translation (Graesse p. 460, 28-37). Only the explicit of the text remains.
- Fol. 1r, col. A: Pope Stephen I [2 August], Southern Netherlandish translation (Graesse p. 461).
- Fol. 1r, col. A - fol. 2v, col. B: Stephanus inventio, Southern Netherlandish translation (Graesse p. 461-465).
- Fol. 2v, col. B - fol. 4v, col. B: St Dominic [4 August], Southern Netherlandish translation (Graesse p. 466-471,18).
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- Edition Jacobi a Voragine Legenda aurea: vulgo historia lombardica dicta, ed. by Johann Georg Theodor Graesse, 3rd edition (Vratislaviae: apud Guilelmum Koebner, 1890), p. 460-471.
History
Remarks
The fragment was discovered around 1983 by Henri Installé, the city's archivist, in a box with miscellaneous documents.
Bibliography
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<https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_ver016199701_01/_ver016199701_01_0006.php>Scheurkogel, Leonard, ‘De overlevering van de Noord- en Zuidnederlandse Legenda aurea. Een tussentijds verslag.’, Verslagen en mededelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse taal- en letterkunde (nieuwe reeks), 1, 1997, p. 102.