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Roman van Heinric ende Margriete van Limborch

fragments from Book V and VI

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Gent, Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal en Letteren, KANTL.HS.7bis.b

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

General Information

Title <i>Roman van Heinric ende Margriete van Limborch</i>
Shelfmarks Gent, Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal en Letteren, KANTL.HS.7bis.b
Former Shelfmarks Fragment-Willems; Fragment-F; H51A
Material Parchment
Place of Origin West Brabant
Date of Origin second quarter 14th century
Persons Scribe of Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, LTK 195
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis libraria.
General Remarks

Fragments from the same manuscript can be found in Brussels, KBR, IV 853 (1) and Xanten, Stifts- und Pfarrarchiv, 41.

Original Condition

Page Height 292 mm
Page Width 201 mm
Height of Written Area 237 – 238 mm
Width of Written Area 137 – 139 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 55 – 70 mm
Number of Lines 53
Line Height 4 – 5 mm
Ruling Full lead-point ruling
Numbering

Modern foliation in ink.

Current Condition

Extent 2 leaves
Dimensions 292 x 201 mm
More about the Current Condition

Text on the lower side of both fol. [1]r and [2]r has largely faded, making it difficult to read.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Cadel with black ornamental (and sometimes figurative) penwork and red colour stroking on each top line. Red plain initials, red colour stroking.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title <i>Roman van Heinric ende Margriete van Limborch</i>
    • Content Description

      • Fol. [1]: Book V, v. 1106-1317.

      • Fol. [2]: Book VI, v. 2109-2320.
    • fol. [1]r
    • Edition Bergh, Laurens Philippe Charles van den, ed., Roman van Heinric en Margriete van Limborch, gedicht door Heinric, 2 vols (Leiden: 1846-1847), p. 263-8, 351-6 <https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/aken002roma01_01/index.php>

History

Provenance

Fragments were discovered by Ludwig Tross (1795-1864) in Hamm (Westphalia) and donated to Constant Serrure around 1840. The fragments were sold by Serrure to book seller Camille Vyt in 1872, who in turn sold them to Léonard Willems in 1898, alongside fragments of Alexanders geesten by Jacob van Maerlant (F-axsj on Fragmentarium). The fragments were transferred to the collection of the Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal en Letteren after Willems' death in 1938.
Persons and Institutions Constant Serrure (previous owner, between ca. 1840 - 1872); Camille Vyt (book seller and previous owner, between 1872-1898); Léonard Willems (previous owner, between 1898-1938); Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal en Letteren (from 1938 onwards)

Host Volume

Title <i>Martyrologium Usuardi</i>
Date of Origin/Publication late 14th - early 15th century
Place of Origin/Publication Wesel, Brethren of the Common Life of St Martin ("Liber domus Fratrum S. Martini in Wesalia")
Shelfmark Brussels, KBR, II 4292
Remarks

Host volume was originally kept at Hamm. Fragments were used in binding as pastedowns; they have since been removed. The host volume was later bought by Willem Jan Roijaards van den Ham (1829-1897) in Utrecht after the removal of the fragments. After the death of Van den Ham's widow in 1910, his whole collection was auctioned off. 

Offsets of the Limborch fragments are still descernable on the inside of the binding.

Bibliography

  • Kienhorst, Hans, De handschriften van de Middelnederlandse ridderepiek: een codicologische beschrijving. Deel 1 (Deventer: Sub Rosa, 1988), 106-107.
  • Willems, Léonard, ‘Middelnederlandsche fragmenten. I’, Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Vlaamsche Academie voor Taal- en Letterkunde, 1922, 798–804.
     https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_ver025192201_01/_ver025192201_01_0067.php
  • De Wachter, Lieve, ‘Een literair-historisch onderzoek naar de effecten van ontleningen op de compositie en de zingeving van de “Roman van Heinric en Margriete van Limborch”’ (PhD thesis, Katholieke Universiteit, 1998), p. 17.
     https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/wach015lite01_01/index.p
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