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Die spiegel der sonden

Index table, Over Gulsigheit

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Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1635/4

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

General Information

Title <i>Die spiegel der sonden</i>
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1635/4
Former Shelfmarks Fragment-Willems
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Low Countries
Date of Origin second half 14th century
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis libraria.

Original Condition

Page Height at least 201 mm
Page Width 191 – 194 mm
Height of Written Area at least 152 mm
Width of Written Area up to 157 mm
Width of Columns 67 – 151 mm
Number of Lines 40
Line Height 5 – 6 mm
Ruling Full lead-point ruling
More about the Condition

Index on fol. [1] is written in a single column, while the text on fol. [2] was written in two columns.

Current Condition

Extent 1 leaf, 1 strip (part of 1 bifolium, restored)
Dimensions 201 x 194 mm (leaf)
More about the Current Condition

Both leaves were trimmed horizontally, while fol. [2] is also trimmed vertically, leaving only one column of the text preserved on this leaf. A large stain is visible across fol. [1], making it difficult to read.

Fol. [1] contains several 17th-century inscriptions relating to the fragment's later purpose as a wrapper for a baptismal register to the parish of Desteldonk.

Bifolium was later restored with adhesive tape and bound in a 20th-century codex, alongside its edition by Leonard Willems.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Red plain initials; red colour stroking; red paraphs.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title <i>Die spiegel der sonden</i>
    • Content Description
      • Fol. [1]: Index table to text.
      • Fol. [2]: On Gluttony ('Over Gulsigheit').
    • fol. [1]r
    • Edition Willems, Léonard, ‘Middelnederlandsche fragmenten. I’, Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Vlaamsche Academie voor Taal- en Letterkunde, 1922, 783-796
    • Remarks

      Middle Dutch didactic poem on the Seven Deadly Sins. Fol. [2] discusses Gluttony ('Over Gulsigheit').

History

Remarks

Fragment was discovered in 1921 by Leonard Willems at the Belgian State Archives at Ghent. Fragment was transferred to Ghent University Library at an unknown date.

Host Volume

Title Baptismal register to the parish of Desteldonk, for the years 1614-1634
Date of Origin/Publication 1614-1634
Place of Origin/Publication Desteldonk (village close to Ghent)
Remarks

Fragment was used as a wrapper for this particular register. However, this register has been missing from the Belgian State Archives at Ghent since at least 1922.

Bibliography

  • Willems, Léonard, ‘Middelnederlandsche fragmenten. I’, Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Vlaamsche Academie voor Taal- en Letterkunde, 1922, 784–796.

  • Derolez, Albert, Medieval Manuscripts: Ghent University Library (Ghent: Snoeck, 2017), 242.

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