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Notes in Latin on recent events in the Low Countries by Gerulfus Borluut

Account of the fall of the Calvinist Republic of Ghent (August 1584)

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Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.2582/344

Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Notes in Latin on recent events in the Low Countries by Gerulfus Borluut
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.2582/344
Former Shelfmarks QL3
Material Parchment
Place of Origin East Flanders (Drongen Abbey)
Date of Origin last quarter 16th century (after 1584)
Persons Gerulfus Borluut (author and scribe)
Script, Hands

One scribal hand, probably that of the author. 

Original Condition

Page Height 177 mm
Page Width 121 mm
Height of Written Area 135 mm
Width of Written Area 84 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 84 mm
Number of Lines 30
Line Height 3 – 7 mm
Ruling No ruling.

Current Condition

Extent 1 leaf
Dimensions 177 x 121 mm

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

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No decoration.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons Gerulfus Borluut
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Notes on recent events in the southern Low Countries
    • Content Description

      The preserved text mentions several events that took place around Ghent in the summer of 1584. At that time the Calvinist Republic of Ghent was besieged and eventually fell on 17 August 1584.
    • fol. [1]r
    • Remarks

      When the Calvinists took control of Ghent and its surroundings, they drove the monks of Drongen Abbey, of whom Gerulfus Borluut was one, out of their abbey. In his account, Borluut's negative view the Calvinist insurgents clearly comes through when he refers to them as 'heretics' and 'a deplorable and depraved race of humans'.

History

Origin

Gerulfus (or Gerolf) Borluut was a Premonstratensian canon regular at the Abbey of Drongen in the second half of the 16th century. Information about Borluut is known through notes recorded in other works he owned, such as Ghent, University of Ghent, HS.0407.

Host Volume

Remarks

The fragment was presumably a flyleaf of a book owned by Gerolf Borluut.
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