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Commentary on Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale

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Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1374

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

General Information

Title Commentary on Alexander de Villa Dei, <i>Doctrinale</i>
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1374
Page/Folio Reference front flyleaf r-v
Material Parchment
Date of Origin late 13th - early 14th century
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis currens, highly abbreviated and in small size.

Original Condition

Page Height at least 151 mm
Page Width at least 100 mm
Height of Written Area at least 127 mm
Width of Written Area at least 100 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns at least 47 mm
Number of Lines at least 36
Line Height 3 – 4 mm
Ruling No longer visible.
More about the Condition

Original measurements are difficult to determine due to trimming-related text loss.

Lower margin measures ca. 27 mm.

Current Condition

Extent 1 leaf (trimmed)
Dimensions 151 x 100 mm
More about the Current Condition

Leaf is trimmed and bound upside down. It is now a flyleaf but was originally the pastedown.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

No decoration visible.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons Alexander de Villa Dei (author of original work)
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Commentary on Alexander de Villa Dei, <i>Doctrinale</i>
    • front flyleaf r

History

Provenance

Host volume was bought and kept by English book collector Richard Heber (1773-1833) and later by Belgian historian and philologist Constant Philip Serrure (1805-1872). Volume entered collection of Ghent University Library in 1878.
Remarks

It is unknown when the fragment became used as a flyleaf.

Host Volume

Title Dutch poetic miscellany
Date of Origin/Publication late 14th century (after 1393)
Place of Origin/Publication Brabant, Rouge Cloître (Rooklooster, convent of Augustinian Canons at Auderghem near Brussels).
Shelfmark Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1374
Page/Folio Reference: fol. 1-137
Persons Richard Heber (previous owner, late 18th-early 19th century); Constant Serrure (previous owner, until 1878)
Remarks

Codex also known as the 'Heber-Serrure codex', after its nineteenth-century owners.

Codex was rebound in 1968; the extant fragments in the binding were kept in place.

Bibliography

  • Derolez, Albert, Medieval Manuscripts: Ghent University Library (Ghent: Snoeck, 2017), 224.

  • Reynaert, Joris, Catalogus van de Middelnederlandse handschriften in de Bibliotheek van de Universiteit van Gent (Wetteren: Universa, 1996), 2,1: De handschriften verworven na 1852, p. 312-313

     https://libstore.ugent.be/fulltxt/RUG01/002/036/401/RUG01-002036401_2013_0001_AC.pdf

  • Kwakkel, Erik, Die Dietsche boeke die ons toebehoeren. De kartuizers van Herne en de productie van Middelnederlandse handschriften in de regio Brussel (1350–1400) (Leuven: Peeters, 2002), p. 242-243
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