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Roman van Antiochië

Dutch chivalric romance

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Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1647

Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2024 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title <i>Roman van Antiochië</i>
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1647
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Flanders
Date of Origin first quarter of the 14th century (ca. 1325)
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis libraria.
General Remarks

Originally part of the same manuscript as: Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 15.393; Brussels, KBR, Ms. 209-10; and Leuven, Collection Deschamps, z.s.

This fragment was part of the same leaf as the fragment currently kept in Brussels.

Original Condition

Page Height 260 mm
Page Width 180 – 190 mm
Height of Written Area 200 – 210 mm
Width of Written Area 141 – 149 mm
Number of Columns 2
Number of Lines 46 – 50
Ruling Full lead-point ruling

Current Condition

Extent 1 horizontal strip
Dimensions 31 x 165 mm

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Red plain initials, red colour stroking.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title <i>Roman van Antiochië</i>
    • Content Description

      Fragment contains a Middle Dutch translation of the so-called "Ambassade de Sansadoine" episode from the Old French Chanson d'Antioche. This part of the story is about king Garsioen meeting up with his vassals to find a solution to the siege of Antioch.
    • fol. [1]r
    • Edition Claassens, Geert H.M., ‘De Middelnederlandse kruisvaartromans’ (dissertation, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, 1993), 153-159

History

Provenance

Fragment has been part of the collection of Ghent University Library since at least the late nineteenth century; its exact origins are unknown, but it was possibly part of the collection of Constant Serrure (1805-1872).

Host Volume

Remarks

The fragment was used in a book binding; the exact host volume is unknown.

Bibliography

  • Kienhorst, Hans, and Herman Mulder, ‘Copiïsten van Middelnederlandse literaire handschriften’, Documentaal: informatie- en communicatiebulletin voor Neerlandici, 15.3 (1986), 94
  • Kienhorst, Hans, De handschriften van de Middelnederlandse ridderepiek. Een codicologische beschrijving (Sub Rosa, 1988), i, 64-65
  • Derolez, Albert, Medieval Manuscripts. Ghent University Library (Snoeck, 2017), p. 243
  • Claassens, Geert H.M., ‘De Middelnederlandse kruisvaartromans’ (PhD dissertation, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, 1993), p. 108-159
     https://repository.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/handle/2066/113109/mmubn000001_157733491.pdf
  • Klein, Jan Willem, ‘“Het getal zijner jaren is onnaspeurlijk” Een herijking van de dateringen van de handschriften en fragmenten met Middelnederlandse ridderepiek’, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse taal- en letterkunde, 111 (1995), 1–23 (p. 14)
     https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/klei021geta01_01/klei021geta01_01_0001.php
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