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Arturs doet

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Antwerpen, Rijksarchief te Antwerpen, Sint-Catharinakapittel Hoogstraten, nr. 175 (addendum)

Laurent Breeus-Loos, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2021 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title <i>Arturs doet</i>
Shelfmarks Antwerpen, Rijksarchief te Antwerpen, Sint-Catharinakapittel, nr. 175 (bijvoegsel)
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Low Countries
Date of Origin First half of the 14th century or mid-14th century
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis. Paleographical peculiarities are the decorative vertical lines above the double consonants ('dd', 'll', 'bb') , the thickening of the shaft of the long 's' and the shape of the 'w' (and 'v') (Croenen & Janssens 1994).
General Remarks

The two fragments are currently kept under the same shelfmark as the manuscript in which they were discovered (and from which they were removed). In the 'addendum folder', another paper strip is kept that also functioned as binding material in the same host volume. However, this paper strip is much younger and not a remant of the same manuscript as the two parchment strips of Arturs doet.

Original Condition

Page Height 260 mm
Page Width 180 mm
Height of Written Area 208 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns at least 40 mm
Number of Lines at least 40
Line Height 5 – 6 mm
Ruling No ruling visible (probably lead-point)

Current Condition

Extent 2 loose strips (A, B), cut out from the same leaf
Dimensions c. 225 x 6-23 mm (A); c. 262 x 6-38 mm (B)

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title Arturs doet
    • Content Description

      A complete text of the Middle Dutch Arturs doet has been preserved in the Brabantine Lancelot Compilation: Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), Hs. 129 A. Croenen & Janssens (1994) edit the Antwerpen fragment and compare it to both the Old French source text (La Mort le Roi Artu) and to the version of Arturs Doet that appears in the Lancelot Compilation: 

      Antwerpen fragment, fol. [1] recto and verso corresponds with vs. 5507-5664 (Lancelot compilation. Den Haag, KB, Hs. 129 A, 10, fol. 225r col. c - 225v col. c). 
    • fol. [1]r (A)
    • Edition Croenen, G., and J. D. Janssens, ‘Een nieuw licht op de Lancelotcompilatie? De betekenis van het pas gevonden Fragmentje van “Arturs Doet”’, Queeste. Tijdschrift over Middeleeuwse Letterkunde in de Nederlanden, 1, 1994, 3–11, 108–25.

History

Remarks

In 1992 Godfried Croenen discovered the fragment in the State Archives in Antwerpen when it was still part of the binding of the register. It was subsequently removed for study and since then remains detached from its host volume.

Host Volume

Title Redditus dati pro anniversariis in ecclesia parochiali et collegiata Hoochstratensi celebrando [...] anno Domini XV quinquagesimo tertio et LIIIo.
Date of Origin/Publication A mid-sixteenth century register containing an obituary and a list of chantries in the collegiate church of Hoogstraten.
Place of Origin/Publication Hoogstraten
Shelfmark Antwerpen, Rijksarchief te Antwerpen, Sint-Catharinakapittel, nr. 175, https://mmfc.be/ms/mmfc-54420
Remarks

The fragments served as quire guards but were removed in 1992 after they were discovered by Croenen.

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