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Ars moriendi in Middle Dutch verse

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Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1591

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

General Information

Title <i>Ars moriendi</i> in Middle Dutch verse
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1591
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Low Countries
Date of Origin Second half of the fourteenth century
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis libraria.

Original Condition

Page Height up to 310 mm
Page Width up to 233 mm
Height of Written Area 258 – 260 mm
Width of Written Area 152 – 154 mm
Number of Columns 2
Number of Lines up to 50
Line Height 5 – 6 mm
Ruling Lead-point ruling

Current Condition

Extent 1 leaf
Dimensions 310 x 233 mm
More about the Current Condition

Fragment is mounted onto modern paper and bound in modern codex together with notes by Willem De Vreese.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Plain red initials and versals; red rubrication and colour stroking.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title <i>Ars moriendi</i> in Middle Dutch verse
    • fol. ii v - [1]r
    • Edition Willems, J.F., ‘Fragmenten van eene oude verzameling van zedelyke gedichten’, Belgisch museum voor de Nederduitsche tael- en letterkunde en de geschiedenis des vaderlands, 8 (1844), 447–53
    • Remarks

      Text is divided in rubricated chapters. Chapter CLXI ('Een berespen up dleven van der weerelt') starts on fol. [1]ra, chapter CLXII ('Van stervene ende hoe elc mensce mach segghen: ic ga sterven') starts on fol. [1]va.

History

Provenance

The fragment was initially discovered at the Oudenaarde city archives. It is unknown how and when the fragment entered the collection of Ghent University Library, but this must have happened in the nineteenth century. De Vreese assumes the involvement of collector Constant Serrure.

Host Volume

Remarks

Probably used as cover for a register containing a description of landed properties and rents related to the parish of Anzegem. Fol. [1]v has an inscription in Dutch in a sixteenth-century hand: 'Dit es dtbescheet van mijn lant gheleghen binnen die parhie van Andseghem'. Anzegem is parish close to Oudenaarde, where the fragment was discovered.

Bibliography

  • Willems, J.F., ‘Fragmenten van eene oude verzameling van zedelyke gedichten’, Belgisch museum voor de Nederduitsche tael- en letterkunde en de geschiedenis des vaderlands, 8 (1844), 447–53
     https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/will028belg08_01/will028belg08_01_0028.php#29
  • Derolez, Albert, Medieval Manuscripts: Ghent University Library (Ghent: Snoeck, 2017), p. 236
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