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Middle Dutch lectionary

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Brugge, Stads- en O.C.M.W.-archief Brugge, reeks 538: Fragmenten van handschriften, nr. 22

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

General Information

Title Middle Dutch lectionary
Shelfmarks Brugge, Stads- en O.C.M.W.-archief Brugge, reeks 538: Fragmenten van handschriften, nr. 22
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Western Flanders (possibly Bruges)
Date of Origin first half 14th century
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis libraria/currens.

Original Condition

Page Height 208 mm
Page Width 163 mm
Height of Written Area 180 mm
Width of Written Area 129 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 61 – 62 mm
Number of Lines 36 – 37
Line Height 5 mm
Ruling Full lead-point ruling
Collation

Extant bifolium was the outer bifolium of the original final quire.

Current Condition

Extent 1 bifolium
Dimensions 208 x 163 mm (leaf)
More about the Current Condition

The upper inner corner of the bifolium is missing, leading to some text loss.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Plain initials and versals, alternately in red and blue ink. Red rubrication.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title Lectionary
    • Content Description
      • Fol. [1]r:
        • Luke 10: 17-20 (defective).
        • Ecclesiasticus 39: 6-13.
        • Matthew 5:13-19.
        • Ecclesiasticus 47: 9-13, 24: 1-4 (continues onto next page).
      • Fol. [1]v: 
        • Luke 12: 32-34.
        • Luke 11: 27-28.
      • Fol. [2]r: 
        • 2 Machabees 12: 43-46.
        • John 6: 37-40.
        • Isaiah 58: 10, 11, 14.
        • John 6: 51-55.
        • Apocalypse 14:13 (continues onto next page).
      • Fol. [2]v:
        • John 5: 24-29.
    • fol. [1]r
    • Edition Geirnaert, Dirk, and Noël Geirnaert, ‘Membra disiecta Brugensia: een fragment van een onbekend Middelnederlands lectionarium’’, in Miscellanea Neerlandica: opstellen voor Dr. Jan Deschamps ter gelegenheid van zijn zeventigste verjaardag, ed. by Elly Cockx-Indestege and Frans Hendrickx (Leuven: Peeters, 1987), i, 214-218

History

Provenance

Manuscript originally belonged St. Trudo's Abbey (Bruges), according to provenance mark on fol. [2]v: 'Desen bouc behoort toe den clooster van sint truudt buten brugghe .xj.'. The provenance mark is dated ca. 1450.

The manuscript was possibly discarded by the abbey around the second half of the 16th century. This could have happened as early as 1561, as later-added inscriptions on the same leaf contain the date '17 maerte 1561'.

Later-added names ('Fransoys Coos', 'Maerten de Caet', 'Loyseken Boeydens, Jan vande Voorde en Mr. Joos van Estrycke') all refer to citizens of Bruges from the late 16th century. The fragment was thus possibly used in the binding of a late 16th-century register of so-called buitenpoorters in Bruges.

Bibliography

  • Geirnaert, Dirk, and Noël Geirnaert, ‘Membra disiecta Brugensia: een fragment van een onbekend Middelnederlands lectionarium’’, in Miscellanea Neerlandica: opstellen voor Dr. Jan Deschamps ter gelegenheid van zijn zeventigste verjaardag, ed. by Elly Cockx-Indestege and Frans Hendrickx (Leuven: Peeters, 1987), i, 207–28.
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