Overview Facsimile
Description
Show TEI/XML Download TEI/XML Print Description

Jan van Boendale, Der leken spiegel

F-7jqe

Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1588

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

General Information

Title Jan van Boendale, <i>Der leken spiegel</i>
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1588
Page/Folio Reference fol. 1-2
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Low Countries
Date of Origin Second half of the 15th century
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis libraria.

Original Condition

Page Height 313 mm
Page Width 220 mm
Height of Written Area 230 mm
Width of Written Area 155 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 70 mm
Number of Lines 40
Line Height 5 mm
Ruling Lead-point ruling
Numbering
  • Early-modern numbering in the upper margin ('12', fol. 1r)
  • Modern foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil (fol. 1r, 2r)
Collation

This was probably the outer bifolium of a quire.

Current Condition

Extent 1 bifolium
Dimensions 313 x 220 mm
More about the Current Condition

Bound in a modern cardboard codex.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Two-line pen-flourished initial (fol. 1v); versals in red and blue ink; rubrics in red; colour stroking in red; alternating red and blue paraphs.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons Jan van Boendale (author)
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title <i>Der leken spieghel</i>
    • Content Description
      • Fol. 1: Book 2, chapter 44, v. 482 - chapter 45, v. 39
      • Fol. 2: Book 2, chapter 48, v. 562-721
    • fol. iii v - [1]r
    • Edition Jan van Boendale, Der leken spieghel. Leerdicht van den jare 1330, ed. by Matthias de Vries (Leiden: Du Mortier en Zoon, 1844)

History

Persons and Institutions Part of the Ghent University Library collection since at least the late 19th century; it is unknown when the fragment entered this collection.

Bibliography

  • Derolez, Albert, Medieval Manuscripts: Ghent University Library (Ghent: Snoeck, 2017), 236

  • Jan van Boendale, Der leken spieghel. Leerdicht van den jare 1330, ed. by Matthias de Vries (Leiden: Du Mortier en Zoon, 1844)

     https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/boen001mvri01_01/index.php
Back to top