Reis van Jan van Mandeville
Middle Dutch version of Jean de Mandeville, Voyages
F-7owk
Antwerpen, Ruusbroecgenootschap, Neerl. 413/5
Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023 (Born Digital)
General Information
Title <i>Reis van Jan van Mandeville</i>
Shelfmarks Antwerpen, Ruusbroecgenootschap, Neerl. 413/5
Former Shelfmarks Olim 413
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Southwestern Flanders
Date of Origin late 14th century
Script, Hands
One hand, gothic cursiva antiquior.
Original Condition
Page Height 220 mm
Page Width 145 mm
Height of Written Area 174 – 176 mm
Width of Written Area at least 118 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 57 mm
Number of Lines 38
Line Height 4 – 5 mm
Ruling No longer visible.
More about the Condition
Prickings visible in inner margin.
Current Condition
Extent 4 strips (parts of the same leaf)
Dimensions 220 x 141 mm (strips together)
More about the Current Condition
Leaf was trimmed into four strips. Strips all contain later-added postal marks with numbering in pencil.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
Red colour stroking.
Content
- Content Item
- Persons Johannnes de Mandeville
- Text Language Middle Dutch
- Title <i>Reis van Jan van Mandeville</i>
![fol. [1]r](https://fragmentarium.ms:443/loris/F-7owk/ua_rb_20220310b_0027_Neerl_413_5.jp2/full/,150/0/default.jpg "fol. [1]r")
- Edition Kienhorst, Hans, and Willem Kuiper, ‘Misschien wel het oudste bewaard gebleven Middelnederlandse afschrift van de Reis van Jan van Mandeville. Fragment Antwerpen, Ruusbroecgenootschap, Neerl. 413/5’, in Schriftgeheimen: Opstellen over schrift en schriftcultuur, ed. by Marjolein Hogenbirk and Lisa Kuitert (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017), pp. 216–9
- Remarks
Middle Dutch prose translation of Jean de Mandeville's Voyages. The fragment largely corresponds to a Ripuarian translation of the same text as present in Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, SPKB, mgf 550 and mgq 271 (see Kienhorst and Kuiper 2018, p. 216-219).
Host Volume
Remarks
The fragments were most likely used in a book binding; the exact host volume is unknown.
Bibliography
- Kienhorst, Hans, and Willem Kuiper, ‘Misschien wel het oudste bewaard gebleven Middelnederlandse afschrift van de Reis van Jan van Mandeville. Fragment Antwerpen, Ruusbroecgenootschap, Neerl. 413/5’, in Schriftgeheimen: Opstellen over schrift en schriftcultuur, ed. by Marjolein Hogenbirk and Lisa Kuitert (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017), p. 211–24