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Die spiegel der sonden

Over Vrecheit

F-f37p

Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1635/2

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

General Information

Title <i>Die spiegel der sonden</i>
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1635/2
Former Shelfmarks Fragment-Nieuwenhuyzen
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Low Countries
Date of Origin first half 15th century
Script, Hands

Gothica cursiva libraria.

Original Condition

Page Height at least 49 mm
Page Width at least 118 mm
Height of Written Area at least 49 mm
Width of Written Area at least 118 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 61 – 68 mm
Number of Lines at least 10
Line Height 5 mm
Ruling Full lead-point ruling

Current Condition

Extent 2 strips (part of 1 leaf, restored, bound)
Dimensions 49 x 118 mm
More about the Current Condition

The fragment consists of two strips that were part of the same leaf. The two strips were reattached with Japanese paper. The fragment has been 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 colour stroking, red paraphs.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title <i>Die spiegel der sonden</i>
    • fol. [1]r
    • Edition de Pauw, Napoléon, Middelnederlandsche gedichten en fragmenten, Koninklijke Vlaamsche academie voor taal- en letterkunde. 3de reeks, 8, 2 vols (Gent: Siffer, 1893), 418-421
    • Remarks

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

History

Remarks

Fragments were discovered in the University library of Ghent by J. J. Nieuwenhuyzen in 1839 in the binding of a 16th-century copy of Thucydides, De Bello Peloponnesiaco.

Host Volume

Title Thucydides, <i>De Bello Peloponnesiaco<i>
Date of Origin/Publication 1594
Place of Origin/Publication Frankfurt
Shelfmark Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, BIB.CL.000054
Persons Andreas Wechel, heirs (printer of host volume); Claude de Marne (printer of host volume); Johann Aubry I (printer of host volume).
Remarks

Fragments of De spiegel der sonden were used in the binding.

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