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Middle Dutch legend of Saint Margaret of Antioch

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Antwerpen, Ruusbroecgenootschap, Neerl. 20

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

General Information

Title Middle Dutch legend of Saint Margaret of Antioch
Shelfmarks Antwerpen, Ruusbroecgenootschap, Neerl. 20
Former Shelfmarks ANTWERPEN, RG : Olim 413
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Flanders (Eastern Denderstreek)
Date of Origin second half 14th century
Script, Hands

1 hand, northern littera gothica textualis.

Original Condition

Page Height at least 170 mm
Page Width at least 103 mm
Height of Written Area at least 137 mm
Width of Written Area at least 72 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns at least 72 mm
Number of Lines 30
Ruling Full lead-point ruling

Current Condition

Extent 2 bifolia
Dimensions 145 x 190 mm
More about the Current Condition

Desideer Stracke used a reagent to decipher the text for his 1938 publication. The parchment degraded because of this.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Red plain initials, versals, paraphs and colour stroking.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title <i>Legend of Saint Margaret of Antioch</i>
    • fol. [1]r
    • Edition Stracke, Desideer A., ‘Twee Middelnederlandsche legenden der H. Margaretha van Antiochië’, Ons geestelijk erf : driemaandelijks tijdschrift voor de geschiedenis van de vroomheid in de Nederlanden, 12, 278–87

History

Provenance

Fragments were gifted to Desideer Stracke by J.B. Paquay, deacon at Bilzen.
Remarks

Fragments were glued to the inside of a box (presumably for a liturgical object) as lining.

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