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Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea

F-587m

Leuven, Archief van de Abdij van Park, ID3.19

Elize Van Opstal, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023. (Born Digital)

Remarks by the Editor

Additional remarks by Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023.

General Information

Title Jacobus de Voragine, <i>Legenda aurea</i>
Shelfmarks Leuven, Archief van de Abdij van Park, ID3.19
Page/Folio Reference lower pastedown
Material Parchment
Date of Origin 14th century
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis currens, in multiple hands.

Original Condition

Page Height at least 153 mm
Page Width 120 mm
Height of Written Area at least 153 mm
Width of Written Area 85 – 90 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 85 – 90 mm
Number of Lines at least 40
Line Height 3 – 4 mm
Ruling No longer visible.
More about the Condition

The original width is estimated with the procedure of J.P. Gumbert’s statistical research on page dimensions of manuscripts. He has shown that the ratio of height to width generally lies between 0.60 and 0.80. The estimated minimum width lies between 150 and 200 mm.

Current Condition

Extent 1 bifolium (trimmed, in situ)
Dimensions 152 x 209 mm
More about the Current Condition

Fragment was used as a pastedown for the lower board. Fragment has suffered from wear through the clasps attached to the board.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

No decoration visible.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons Jacobus de Voragine
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title <i>Legenda aurea</i>
    • Content Description

      The fragment contains parts of chapter 119 on the Assumption of Mary. The preserved text corresponds to the edition by Graesse, p. 508-509 (verso:  "ac dicere: exit Israel de Egypte [...] voluerit recipiet visum [qui] autem) and p. 513-514 (recto: sua indiscreta liberalitate dispergeret ad tantam devenit inopiam [...] hominum cur me taliter [illusti] et pro tantis beneficiis).
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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).

Host Volume

Title Middle Dutch sermons
Date of Origin/Publication second half 15th century
Place of Origin/Publication Low Countries
Shelfmark Leuven, Archief van de Abdij van Park, ID3.19
Remarks

Host volume also contains another fragment, of a ritual for baptism (F-5xbh on Fragmentarium).

Host volume was kept by one M. Bosch in 1861, according to ex-libris on fol. 99v. Bosch was presumably the owner before the manuscript transferred to Parc Abbey.
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