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Die spiegel der sonden

Over Luxurie

F-edut

Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1635/3

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

General Information

Title <i>Die spiegel der sonden</i>
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1635/3
Former Shelfmarks Fragment-Schoorman
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Low Countries
Date of Origin first half 15th century
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis libraria.

Original Condition

Page Height 274 mm
Page Width at least 96 mm
Height of Written Area 200 mm
Width of Written Area at least 66 mm
Width of Columns 66 mm
Number of Lines 40
Line Height 4 – 5 mm
Ruling Full lead-point ruling
Numbering

Medieval foliation using Roman numerals ('xiiii') in the upper margin of both sides of the leaf.

Current Condition

Extent 2 strips (part of 1 leaf, restored, bound)
Dimensions 274 x 96 mm
More about the Current Condition

The fragment consists of two strips that were reattached with Japanese paper. It was mounted on paper and bound in a 20th-century codex, together with an offprint of the text's edition by Napoleon de Pauw.

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>
    • fol. 14r
    • Secondary Literature de Pauw, Napoléon, Middelnederlandsche gedichten en fragmenten, 2 vols (Gent: Siffer, 1893), 416a-d.
    • Remarks

      Middle Dutch didactic poem on the Seven Deadly Sins. Fragment discusses Lust ('Over Luxurie').

Host Volume

Remarks

The two strips were discovered in 1893 by Robert Schoorman, archivist at the Belgian State Archives at Ghent in the bindings of two different sixteenth-century registers.

Bibliography

  • de Pauw, Napoléon, Middelnederlandsche gedichten en fragmenten, 2 vols (Gent: Siffer, 1893), 416a-d.
  • Derolez, Albert, Medieval Manuscripts: Ghent University Library (Ghent: Snoeck, 2017), p. 242.
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