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Hein van Aken, Die rose

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Leuven, KU Leuven Bibliotheken Bijzondere Collecties, Ms. 1325

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

General Information

Title Hein van Aken, <i>Die rose</i>
Shelfmarks Leuven, KU Leuven Bibliotheken Bijzondere Collecties, Ms. 1325
Former Shelfmarks Ms. Fragm. 518; fragment-Moons; Ms. 118
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Low Countries
Date of Origin ca. 1350
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis libraria, 1 hand.
General Remarks

Fragments of the so-called Ms. 'D' of Die Rose. Other fragments of this manuscript are Amsterdam, Universiteitsbibliotheek, I A 24 (c) and London, British Library, Add. MS 38091.

Original Condition

Page Height 260 mm
Page Width 168 mm
Height of Written Area 174 mm
Width of Written Area 123 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 53 mm
Number of Lines 32 – 33
Line Height 5 mm
Ruling Full lead-point ruling
Collation

Quires possibly consisted of four double leaves.
More about the Condition

Estimates based on Coun 1994, p. 197-198.

Current Condition

Extent 4 strips (parts of two different leaves)
Dimensions 57 x 147 mm
More about the Current Condition

Fragment consists of four strips from two different leaves. The strips that are from the same leaf fit together.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Red penwork to a pen-flourished initial is still visible on fol. [1]v; the initial has been trimmed away. Majuscules used as versals.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons Hein van Aken
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title <i>Die rose</i>
    • Content Description
      • Fol. [1] ('fragment-Moons'):
        • Fol. [1]r, col. A: v. 8833-8844.
        • Fol. [1]r, col. B: v. 8866-8877.
        • Fol. [1]v, col. A: v. 8899-8910.
        • Fol. [1]v, col. B: v. 8934-8945. 
      • Fol. [2] ('Ms. 118'):
        • Fol. [1]r, col. A: v. 12421-12425.
        • Fol. [1]r, col. B: v. 12454-12458.
        • Fol. [1]v, col. A: v. 12487-12491.
        • Fol. [1]v, col. B: v. 12520-12524.

      Verse numbers based on the edition by Verwijs: Verwijs, Eelco, ed., Die Rose van Heinric van Aken, 2nd edition (Utrecht: HES, 1976), p. 151-153, 211-213.
    • fol. [1]r
    • Edition Coun, Theo, ‘De fragmenten van handschrift de van Die Rose van Heinric’, Verslagen en mededelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, nieuwe reeks, (1994), 207-210
    • Remarks

      Middle Dutch adaptation of the Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun.

History

Provenance

Fragments were brought together under one shelfmark during the 1990s; they were separate until 1994.

Fol. [1], or fragment-Moons, was held by Hasselt-based pharmacist and collector Jacques Moons (1892-1960), who had bought the fragments from a Brussels antiquarian bookstore; the host volume from which the fragments were taken is unknown. The fragments were donated by Moons' son Jos Moons to Theo Coun in 1991. Theo Coun donated the fragment-Moons to Leuven University Library in 1994.

The strips that make up Fol. [2], or Ms. 118, were discovered in a binding with 16th-century prints (BTAB 5A 75118), originating from the Sint-Adrianus monastery of Geraardsbergen. The fragments were identified by Robrecht Lievens in 1982.

Host Volume

Remarks

Fragments were used in book bindings but it is unclear from which host volumes they were removed.

Bibliography

  • Coun, Theo, ‘De fragmenten van handschrift de van Die Rose van Heinric’, Verslagen en mededelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, nieuwe reeks, (1994), 178–23.
     https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_ver016199401_01/_ver016199401_01_0008.php
  • Van der Poel, D. E., De Vlaamse Rose en Die Rose van Heinric: onderzoekingen over twee Middelnederlandse bewerkingen van de Roman de la Rose, Middeleeuwse studies en bronnen, 13 (Hilversum: Verloren, 1989), p. 21-22.
  • Lievens, Robrecht, ‘Middelnederlandse handschriften’, in Nederlandse letteren in de Leuvense universiteitsbibliotheek, ed. by Marcus De Schepper (Leuven: KULAfdeling Nederlandse literatuur en volkskunde, 1982), pp. 30–37.
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