Die spiegel der sonden
Over Luxurie
F-edut
General Information
Northern gothica textualis libraria.
Original Condition
Medieval foliation using Roman numerals ('xiiii') in the upper margin of both sides of the leaf.
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
Red plain initials, red colour stroking, red paraphs.
Content
- Content Item
- Text Language Middle Dutch
- Title <i>Die spiegel der sonden</i>
- 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
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.
