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Valentijn en Nameloos

chivalric romance

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Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.2749/9

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

General Information

Title <i>Valentijn en Nameloos</i>
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.2749/9
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Flanders
Date of Origin first half of the 14th century
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis libraria
General Remarks

Red plain initials

Original Condition

Page Height 250 – 252 mm
Page Width 168 – 170 mm
Height of Written Area 213 – 215 mm
Width of Written Area 135 – 138 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 64 – 66 mm
Number of Lines at least 50
Line Height 3 – 5 mm

Current Condition

Extent 1 bifolium (trimmed)
Dimensions 250 x 170 mm
More about the Current Condition

Bound with a coardboard cover in the 20th century.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Some of the initials on the top lines are cadels with figurative pen-drawn faces (fol. [2]r-v)

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title <i>Valentijn en Nameloos</i>
    • fol. [1]r
    • Edition De Vreese, Willem, ‘Een nieuw fragment van Valentijn en Nameloos’, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, 11 (1892), 150–62

History

Provenance

The fragment was used as binding material in an archival document owned by R. Schoorman, archivist at the State Archives in Ghent. Schoorman donated it to the State Archives, where it was kept until 1919 (stamps on fol. [1]r and [2]v). In 1919 Ghent University Library acquired it in the context of an exchange with the State Archives.

Host Volume

Remarks

Presumably used as binding for archival documents.

Bibliography

  • De Vreese, Willem, ‘Een nieuw fragment van Valentijn en Nameloos’, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, 11 (1892), 140–62
     https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_tij003189201_01/_tij003189201_01_0020.php
  • Kienhorst, Hans, De handschriften van de Middelnederlandse ridderepiek: een codicologische beschrijving. Deel 1 (Deventer: Sub Rosa, 1988), p. 213
  • Derolez, Albert, Medieval Manuscripts: Ghent University Library (Ghent: Snoeck, 2017), p. 273
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