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Middle Dutch antidotary

Recipes for hair growth and removal

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Antwerpen, Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Fragm. 137

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

General Information

Title Middle Dutch antidotary
Shelfmarks Antwerpen, Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Fragm. 137
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Low Countries
Date of Origin 14th century
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis libraria

Original Condition

Page Height at least 81 mm
Page Width 165 mm
Height of Written Area at least 63 mm
Width of Written Area 125 mm
Number of Columns 2
Number of Lines at least 11
Ruling Full lead-point ruling

Current Condition

Extent 1 leaf (trimmed)
Dimensions 81 x 165 mm
More about the Current Condition

Leaf was cut in half; only the upper half of the leaf is preserved. Much of the text has faded, making it difficult to read.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Red colour stroking; red paraphs. No initials visible.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title Antidotary
    • Content Description

      Contains recipes for both hair removal and the treatment of hair loss.
    • fol. [1]r

Host Volume

Title Joannes Vallensis Hieronymianus, <i>Opus de prosodia Hebraeorum in quatuor libros divisum</i> (C 725); Jean Cinquarbres, <i>De re grammatica Hebraeorum opus</i> (C 727)
Date of Origin/Publication 1545 (C 725); 1556 (C 727)
Place of Origin/Publication Paris
Shelfmark Antwerpen, Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, C 725 [C2-530 a] and C 727 [C2-530 a]
Persons Jacques Bogard (printer of C 725) Martin le Jeune (printer of C 727) Paulus van der Eyst (previous owner; Antwerp-based friar who owned both host volumes)
Remarks

Fragment was used in the binding of a convolute book, containing the two volumes. The two separate volumes were possibly brought together by the time these were owned by Paulus van der Eyst.

Bibliography

  • in’t Velt, Roos, ‘Als je haar maar goed zit? Een nieuw fragment met Middelnederlandse haarverzorgingsrecepten’, De Boekenwereld, 39.4 (2023), 40–43
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