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Jacob van Maerlant, Wapene Martijn

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Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, HS 200 (olim: HS. 362a, 83)

Sofie Moors, 2025 (Born Digital)

Remarks by the Editor

This description is an outcome of F.W.O. project 1182725N.  

General Information

Title Jacob van Maerlant, Wapene Martijn
Shelfmarks Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, HS 200
Former Shelfmarks Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, HS. 362a, 83
Material Parchment
Date of Origin 1376-1400
Script, Hands

The verses are written in littera textualis by a single hand.

Later additions probably by F.J. Mone.

Original Condition

Page Height at least 215 mm
Page Width 174 mm
Height of Written Area 195 mm
Width of Written Area 140 mm
Number of Columns 2
Number of Lines 46
Line Height 4 – 5 mm
Ruling No ruling visible, prickings in outer margin visible on fol. 1r.
Numbering

Numbers of leaves and columnes in black ink above each text column (fol. IIa-IIIb) probably added by F.J. Mone. Occasionally, stanzas have been numbered by that modern same hand according to the complete edited text.

The former shelfmark is added in the upper right corner by a modern hand: 'HS. 362a, 83'. 
Collation

The fragment originally formed part of a single-quire booklet of five bifolia. A reconstruction of the original collation (by the author of this Description) is available on VisColl: 1V(10). 
More about the Condition

The information on the original and current condition are based on Mertens (1978, 62-66) (who numbers the bifolium '1ra-2vb'). 

Current Condition

Extent 1 bifolium (trimmed)
Dimensions 215 x 174 mm (trimmed)
More about the Current Condition

The outer margin of the the second leaf of this bifolium (colums 2ra-2vb) has been cut away and is now lost. The lower margin of the bifolium has been trimmed without any text loss. 

Another full bifolium from the same quire, which was part of the same fragment and was recovered from the same binding by Mone, is now wanting but was described and transcribed by Mone (1838b).

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Plain initials (red) indicate the start of the stanzas; rubrics (red); colour-stroked letters (red) at the start of each verse.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons Jacob van Maerlant
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title Wapene Martijn
    • Content Description
      • Fol. 1r (= fol. *3r): Eerste Martijn, vs. 371-462.
      • Fol. 1v (= fol. *3v): Eerste Martijn, vs. 463-554.
      • Fol. 2r (= fol. *8r): Tweede Martijn, vs. 314-338, Derde Martijn, vs. 1-68.
      • Fol. 2v (= fol. *8v): Derde Martijn, vs. 69-159.
    • fol. 1r
    • Edition Mone, F. J.,  ‘Aus Maerlants Wapen Martijn’, in <i>Anzeiger für Kunde der deutschen Vorzeit</i>, 7 (Nürnberg: Germanisches Museum, 1838b), col. 244-258.
    • Remarks

      *: indicates a reconstruced page.

      The fragment was discovered by Mone who identified the text and published a transcription (1838b). 

      Moors et al. (2024) have digitally transcribed the fragment (siglum E) and compared the verses with the critical edition of the text by Verdam and Leendertz (1918). 

      Mone discovered two severely damaged bifolia in a Latin incunable. One of the bifolia has since gone missing but it can be reconstructed through Mone's description and transcription (1838b). Half of the outer columns on this now lost bifolium were, according to Mone, trimmed off. As a result the beginning of the verses on the verso side and the end of the verses on the recto side were wanting.

      • Fol. *2r-v: Eerste Martijn, vs. 186-370.
      • Fol. *9r-v: Derde Martijn, vs. 160-362.

History

Origin

County of Flanders
Persons and Institutions The two parchment bifolia were identified by Franz Joseph Mone around 1838 in the Latin incunable 'Lectura libri institutionum' at the Heidelberg University Library.

Host Volume

Title Lectura libri institutionum mag. Nycasii de Voerda
Date of Origin/Publication 1493
Place of Origin/Publication Cologne, Johannes Koelhoff
Shelfmark I 1050-2 Quart INC
Persons Nycassi de voerda
Remarks

According to what Mone writes, he found the two severely damaged bifolia in the University Library of Heidelberg in the incunable "Lectura libri institutionum mag. Nycasii de Voerda" (Colon. Agrip. 1493. Fol.). Mone (1838, 346) concludes "from the supralibros with the heraldic arms of Cologne, that this book was bound there and that the cut-up fragment of Maerlant was probably also in Cologne." (Mertens 1978, 65, own translation). INKA states the Buchbinderwerkstatt was 'Kartause St. Katharina I (St. Barbara)' (Köln). One of the bifolia was lost before 1887, as Bartsch (1887) no longer mentions it in his catalog published in that year. The bifolium described was subject to conservation treatment in 1976. The host volume was rebound for which only parts of the original binding were used; there is no conservation report from that treatment (Mertens 1978, 98). Mone (1838a, 346) specifies that the fragments had been pasted between the covers and covered with leather on both sides. Only at the edge of the covers were individual letters of the fragment visible.  

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