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Karel ende Elegast

v. 1-321, 1020-1339

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Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.0896/A

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

General Information

Title <i>Karel ende Elegast</i>
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.0896/A
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Southern Low Countries (possibly South-Western Brabant)
Date of Origin third quarter 14th century (ca. 1375)
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis libraria.

Original Condition

Page Height 230 – 240 mm
Page Width 160 – 170 mm
Height of Written Area 180 mm
Width of Written Area 110 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 50 – 58 mm
Number of Lines 35 – 40
Line Height 5 mm
Ruling Lead-point ruling
Numbering

The strips have been individually numbered using Arabic numerals in pencil. Modern folio numbers in Arabic added to the four paper frames.

Current Condition

Extent 17 strips (from 4 different leaves)
Dimensions 20-25 x 205-210 mm
More about the Current Condition

The strips have all been conserved and mounted onto four paper frames, corresponding to the original leaves to which the strips belonged.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Red plain initials, red rubrication, red colour stroking.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title <i>Karel ende Elegast</i>
    • Content Description
      • Fol. [1]-[2]: v. 1-321.
      • Fol. [7]-[8]: v. 1020-1339.
    • fol. [1]r (strip 1-5)
    • Secondary Literature Klein, Jan Willem, ‘De Gentse fragmenten van de Karel ende Elegast’, Tijdschrift voor nederlandse taal- en letterkunde, 105.2–3 (1989), 113–131

Host Volume

Title Jacobus de Voragine, <i>Legenda aurea</i>, summer part, in Middle Dutch
Date of Origin/Publication second half 15th century (ca. 1475)
Place of Origin/Publication Limburg (possibly Sint-Truiden)
Shelfmark Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.0896
Persons Constant Serrure (previous owner)
Remarks

The host volume was a manuscript originally kept at convent of St-Luciëndaal (Augustinian canonesses) near Sint-Truiden witness the ex-libris 'Desen boec hoert toe den clooster van sinte lucien dael buyten der stat van Sintruden in die prochie van sint janne in die librie'). The fragments were used as quire guards in the host volume.

In the 19th century Constant Serrure acquired this volume.

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