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Madelgijs

Dutch chivalric romance

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Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1651

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

General Information

Title <i>Madelgijs</i>
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1651
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Flanders
Date of Origin second half of the 14th century
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis libraria

Original Condition

Page Height at least 280 mm
Page Width at least 192 mm
Width of Written Area 153 – 155 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns at least 70 mm
Number of Lines at least 40
Line Height 4 – 5 mm
Numbering

Foliation in upper margin using Roman numerals.

Current Condition

Extent 2 strips (reattached)
Dimensions 113 x 188 mm
More about the Current Condition

The two strips fit together and have been reattached with adhesive tape. They are monted into a modern codex which also contains handwritten notes by Willem De Vreese and Serrure and a copy of De Vreese's article on the fragment from 1896.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title <i>Madelgijs</i>
    • Content Description

      The verses correspond with v.6700-6714, 6741-6755, 6780-94 and 6821-6835 of the Middle High German Malagis.
    • fol. 42r
    • Edition De Vreese, W., ‘Nieuwe Middelnederlandsche fragmenten. VIII. Twee nieuwe Malegijsfragmenten’, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, 15 (1896), 289–292

History

Provenance

Constant Serrure discovered the fragment in 1840 in the binding of the book. The fragment was acquired by Ghent University Library after Serrure's death in 1872.

Host Volume

Title <i>Coustumen, vsantien ende stijl van procederen der stadt, vryheyt, ende iurisdictie van Mechelen</i>
Date of Origin/Publication 1535
Place of Origin/Publication Antwerp
Persons Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten (printer)

Bibliography

  • Duijvestijn, B. W. Th, Madelgijs: de Middelnederlandse fragmenten en de overeenkomstige Hoogduitse verzen, Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België, volume 130, nr. 51 (Brussel: Koninklijke academie voor wetenschappen, letteren en schone kunsten van België, 1989), 52-54
  • De Vreese, W., ‘Nieuwe Middelnederlandsche fragmenten. VIII. Twee nieuwe Malegijsfragmenten’, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, 15 (1896), 283–307
     https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_tij003189601_01/_tij003189601_01_0026.php
  • Derolez, Albert, Medieval Manuscripts: Ghent University Library (Ghent: Snoeck, 2017), p. 243
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