Jacob van Maerlant, Rijmbijbel

v. 26514-26535, 26564-26584, 26615-26633, 26661-26682, 26487-26511, 26537-26561, 26585-26610, 26636-26655

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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms. all. 333

General Information

Title Jacob van Maerlant, <i>Rijmbijbel</i>
Shelfmarks Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms. all. 333
Page/Folio Reference fol. 29-30
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Low Countries
Date of Origin mid 14th century
Script, Hands

Northern littera gothica textualis libraria, one hand.

Original Condition

Page Height at least 99 mm
Page Width at least 137 mm
Height of Written Area 200 – 210 mm
Width of Written Area 126 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 56 mm
Number of Lines 51
Line Height 1 – 2 mm
Ruling Leadpoint ruling
Numbering

No numbering visible.

More about the Condition

The fragment fol. 30 textually precedes the fragment fol. 29. Recto and verso sides are correctly sequenced.

Fragment 29 has 25 lines of text per column, with 25 verses wanting between the two columns. Fragment 30 has 22 lines of text per column, with 28/29 verses wanting between the two columns.

Current Condition

Extent 2 doubleleaves (part)
Dimensions 99 x 132 mm (fol. 29); 91 x 136 mm (fol. 30)
More about the Current Condition

The fragments are mounted in modern paper bound in a volume together with other fragments of medieval and early modern German manuscripts. Fragment 30 seems to be taken from the lower part of the leaf, as the white space folowing the last text on col. B of the recto side, indicates that this was the last line of text on the page. It is not possible to determine which part of the leaf fol. 29 represents as there are parts of letters visible both before the first lines and after the last lines of text.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Rubrics and plain initials in red.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons Jacob van Maerlant,
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title <i>Rijmbijbel</i>
    • Content Description

      v. 26514-26535, 26564-26584, 26615-26633, 26661-26682, 26487-26511, 26537-26561, 26585-26610, 26636-26655

    • fol. 29r
    • Edition Gysseling, Maurits, ed., <i>Corpus van Middelnederlandse teksten (tot en met het jaar 1300). Reeks 2: Literaire handschriften</i> (Leiden, 1983), vol. 3, p. 630-634 <https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/maer002mgys01_01/>
    • Remarks

      This manuscript has rubrics that identify on which Gospel text the translation was based.

Host Volume

Remarks

The fragments were probably used as pastedowns in an otherwise unidentified in-octavo volume, witness the dark areas marked by the turn-ins on fol. 29v and 30r.

Bibliography

  • Hutter, Matanja, ‘Inventaris van de Rijmbijbel-handschriften’, in De Rijmbijbel van Jacob van Maerlant: het oudste geïllustreerde handschrift in het Nederlands, ed. by Bram Caers and Jan Pauwels (Amsterdam: University Press, 2023), p. 15-16