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Jacob van Maerlant, Wapene Martijn

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Brussel/Bruxelles, KBR, MS 19570

Sofie Moors, 2025 (Born Digital)

Remarks by the Editor

This description is an outcome of F.W.O. project 1182725N.  

General Information

Title Jacob van Maerlant, Wapene Martijn
Shelfmarks MS 19570
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Brabant
Date of Origin Around 1400
Script, Hands

The verses are written in littera textualis hybrida by a single hand.

Original Condition

Page Height at least 202 mm
Page Width at least 159 mm
Height of Written Area at least 170 mm
Width of Written Area at least 125 mm
Number of Columns 2
Number of Lines 37 – 38
Ruling Ruling (ink) visible on f. 1v and 2r. Prickings in outer margin visible on fol. 2 and 4.
Numbering

No foliation visible.
Collation

The fragment originally formed part of a single-quire booklet of six bifolia. A reconstruction of the original collation (by the author of this Description) is available on VisColl: 1VI(12). The surviving fragments once formed the fourth and fifth bifolia of the original booklet.
More about the Condition

The information on the original and current condition are based on Mertens (1978, 57-61).

Current Condition

Extent 2 bifolia (trimmed)
Dimensions 202 x 159 mm. Leaf 1: 202-208 x 132-142 mm; leaf 2: 200-210 x 156 mm; leaf 3: 180-216 x 140 mm; leaf 4: 182-204 x 156-159 mm
More about the Current Condition

The outer margins are damaged or trimmed, resulting in some text loss. The parchment has hardened and there are glue residues almost everywhere.

The two bifolia are bound back-to-back in a small folder. The order of the text is: f. 1 - 3 - 4 - 2. In the “Reconstructed Sequence,” I have adjusted the order.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Plain initials (red) indicate the start of the stanzas; rubric (red); initial (red); colour-stroked letters (red) at the start of each verse.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons Jacob van Maerlant
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title Wapene Martijn
    • Content Description
      • Fol. 1r (= fol. *4r): Eerste Martijn, vs. 454-529.
      • Fol. 1v (= fol. *4v): Eerste Martijn, vs. 530-605.
      • Fol. 2r (= fol. *5r): Eerste Martijn, vs. 606-681
      • Fol. 2v (= fol. *5v): Eerste Martijn, vs. 682-757.
      • Fol. 3r (= fol. *8r): Tweede Martijn, vs. 86-161.
      • Fol. 3v (= fol. *8v): Tweede Martijn, vs. 162-237.
      • Fol. 4r (= fol. *9r): Tweede Martijn, vs. 238-313.
      • Fol. 4v (= fol. *9v): Tweede Martijn, vs. 314-338, Derde Martijn, vs. 1-50.
    • fol. 1r
    • Edition Mertens, Th. (ed.) (1978). Den anderen merten. Synoptische archiefeditie van Jacob van Maerlant’s tweede Martijn. Nijmegen: Alfa.
    • Secondary Literature Mertens, Th. (ed.) (1978). Den anderen merten. Synoptische archiefeditie van Jacob van Maerlant’s tweede Martijn. Nijmegen: Alfa.
    • Remarks

      *: indicates a reconstructed page.

      The fragment was first transcribed by Mertens (1978). Moors et al. (2024) have digitally transcribed the fragment (siglum Br) and compared the verses with the critical edition of the text by Verdam and Leendertz (1918).  

History

Origin

Southern Low Countries (Brabant)

Host Volume

Remarks

It is very likely that these two double leaves were once pasted into a binding as endpapers or something similar, but this can no longer be ascertained. The fragment belonged to J.F. Willems and was acquired by the Royal Library in Brussels in 1846 along with his collection.

Bibliography

  • Mertens, Th. (ed.), Den anderen merten. Synoptische archiefeditie van Jacob van Maerlant’s tweede Martijn. Nijmegen: Alfa, 1978.

  • Deschamps, Jan, and Herman Mulder, Inventaris van de Middelnederlandse handschriften van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België (voorlopige uitgave). Negende aflevering. Brussel: Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, 2007, p. 24.

     https://uurl.kbr.be/1427483

  • Moors, Sofie, Kestemont, Mike, and Remco Sleiderink, 'The Martijn Trilogy Manuscripts: An Open Dataset for Analyzing Scribal Variation', Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 9.1 (2024), 1-21.

     https://doi.org/10.1163/24523666-bja10047

  • Verdam, J., and P. Leendertz (eds.), Jacob van Maerlant’s Strophische Gedichten. Nieuwe bewerking der uitgave van Franck en Verdam. Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff’s, 1918.

     https://www.delpher.nl/nl/boeken/view?coll=boeken&identifier=MMUBL07:000000319:00166
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