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Middle Dutch poems

Van der feesten een proper dinc (fol. 1r-3v); Dit sijn de seven bande die Venus den minnere sande [Dispute on love] (fol. 3v-4v).

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Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1644

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

General Information

Title Middle Dutch poems
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1644
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Low Countries
Date of Origin first quarter of the 15th century
Script, Hands

Littera cursiva antiquior (main text); littera gothica textualis (display script on fol. [3]v)

Current Condition

Dimensions 159 x 69 mm
More about the Current Condition

Measurements for the leaf, based on the largest surviving leaf.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Fol. [3]v: Historiated initial 'E' showing a woman and a man talking to each other. Paraphs in red, colour stroking of the first letters of each verse.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title <i>Van der feesten een proper dinc</i>
    • fol. [1]r
    • Remarks

      A complete version of the poem can be found in the Van Hulthem manuscript (Brussels, KBR, MS 15.589-623)
  • Content Item
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title <i>De seven bande die Venus den minnere sande</i>
    • fol. [3]v-fol. [4]r
    • Edition De Vreese, W., ‘Nieuwe Middelnederlandsche fragmenten. X. Eene nog onbekende “Twistsprake”’, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, 19 (1901), 271–74

History

Provenance

Given to Ghent University Library in 1897 by the widow of J.F. Heremans.

Host Volume

Remarks

The host volume is unknown, but the fragments were probably used as covers for an archival document. On one of them we can still read a reference to the year 1565: ''Anno domini dusent vifhondert und vifensestich'.

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