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Die spiegel der sonden

Over Ghulsheit en Luxurie

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Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1635/1

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

General Information

Title <i>Die spiegel der sonden</i>
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1635/1
Former Shelfmarks Fragment-De Pauw
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Low Countries
Date of Origin 14th century
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis libraria.

Original Condition

Page Height at least 108 mm
Page Width at least 180 mm
Height of Written Area at least 108 mm
Width of Written Area 150 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 64 mm
Number of Lines 48
Line Height 4 – 5 mm
Ruling Full lead-point ruling

Current Condition

Extent 1 bifolium (trimmed)
Dimensions 108 x 180 mm (leaf)
More about the Current Condition

Fol. [1]v-[2]r are darkened, making it almost impossible to read the original text.

The fragment was restored with Japanese paper and mounted on paper and bound in a 20th-century codex, together with an offprint of the text's edition by Napoleon de Pauw.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Red colour stroking; red paraphs.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title <i>Die spiegel der sonden</i>
    • fol. [1]r
    • Edition de Pauw, Napoléon, Middelnederlandsche gedichten en fragmenten, Koninklijke Vlaamsche academie voor taal- en letterkunde. 3de reeks, 8, 2 vols (Gent: Siffer, 1893), 409-416
    • Remarks

      Middle Dutch didactic poem on the Seven Deadly Sins. Fragment discusses Sloth and Lust ('Over Ghulsheit en Luxurie').

History

Provenance

This fragment was discovered by Victor Gaillard at the Belgian State Archives at Ghent in 1852. It was transferred to the Ghent University Library in the second half of the 19th century.

Bibliography

  • de Pauw, Napoléon, Middelnederlandsche gedichten en fragmenten, Koninklijke Vlaamsche academie voor taal- en letterkunde. 3de reeks, 8, 2 vols (Gent: Siffer, 1893), 406-416.

  • de Pauw, Napoléon, ‘Ontdekking van een onbekend Middelnederlandsch gedicht: “Spiegel der sonderen”’, Verslagen en mededelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Taal- en Letterkunde, 1891, 471–83.
  • Derolez, Albert, Medieval Manuscripts: Ghent University Library (Ghent: Snoeck, 2017), 242.
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