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Jonathas ende Rosafiere

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Mechelen, Stadsarchief Mechelen, Verzameling van literaire fragmenten, Album II, voorlopig nr. 4/7; Verzameling van literaire fragmenten, Album II, voorlopig nr. 5/7; Verzameling van literaire fragmenten, Album II, voorlopig nr. 7/7

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

General Information

Title Jonathas ende Rosafiere
Shelfmarks Mechelen, Stadsarchief Mechelen, Verzameling van literaire fragmenten, Album II, voorlopig nr. 4/7; Verzameling van literaire fragmenten, Album II, voorlopig nr. 5/7; Verzameling van literaire fragmenten, Album II, voorlopig nr. 7/7
Material Paper
Place of Origin Western Brabant or Eastern Flanders (possibly Mechelen)
Date of Origin third quarter of the 14th century
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis libraria/currens, with cursive elements; gothica cursiva currens.
General Remarks

The three fragments are originally from the same manuscript, but are kept under three different shelfmarks (Verzameling van literaire fragmenten, Album II, voorlopig nr. 4/7 (F-li5x); voorlopig nr. 5/7 (F-fbfr); and voorlopig nr. 7/7 (F-mh6h)).

Original Condition

Page Height 300 mm
Page Width 197 – 212 mm
Height of Written Area 225 mm
Width of Written Area 185 – 199 mm
Number of Columns 2
Number of Lines 43 – 44
Line Height 3 – 5 mm
Collation

Quires of at least two double leaves per quire.

Current Condition

Extent 3 bifolia (trimmed)
Dimensions 149 x 212 mm (leaf, maximum)
More about the Current Condition

Size of extant leaves differs per fragment.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Marginal drawings in red ink, possibly notary signs (lower margins of fol. [2]v and [3]r). Red line fillers (fol. [4]r). Red rubrication, red colour stroking.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title Jonathas ende Rosafiere
    • fol. [4]v-[1]r
    • Edition Sleiderink, Remco, ‘Hier seldi groete bliscap horen. Veertiende-eeuwse papieren fragmenten van Jonathas ende Rosafiere in het Stadsarchief Mechelen’, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, 130.4 (2014), 321-341
    • Remarks

      Jonathas ende Rosafiere is only fragmentarily known; the fragments from Mechelen contain lines that are not known through the other fragments.

History

Persons and Institutions The fragments were discovered by Herman Mulder and Remco Sleiderink in 2007.

Host Volume

Title Ledger ('wisselboek') of the city of Mechelen, for the years 1417-1418
Date of Origin/Publication 1417-1418
Place of Origin/Publication Mechelen
Shelfmark Mechelen, Stadsarchief Mechelen, AA, 1, 7
Persons Peter van Ghestele (possible book binder)
Remarks

The fragments were used in the host volume's cover.

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