Middle Dutch verse text, possibly a Planctus Mariae

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Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.2582/269

General Information

Title Middle Dutch verse text, possibly a <i>Planctus Mariae</i>
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.2582/269
Former Shelfmarks HS.2582/Qf9
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Low Countries
Date of Origin 14th century
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis libraria.

Original Condition

Page Height at least 28 mm
Page Width at least 152 mm
Height of Written Area at least 28 mm
Width of Written Area at least 146 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 59 – 60 mm
Number of Lines at least 7
Line Height 4 – 5 mm
Ruling No longer visible.

Current Condition

Extent 1 strip
Dimensions 28 x 152 mm
More about the Current Condition

Strip taken from the middle of a bifolium.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Red colour stroking.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title Middle Dutch verse text
    • fol. [1]r
    • Remarks

      Even though explicit names are mentioned nowhere in this fragment, the text might possibly have been a Planctus Mariae (verse text on the laments of the Virgin Mary).

History

Provenance

Franciscus Kieckens (previous owner of host volume, around 1750)

Remarks

Book which used the fragment as binding was gifted to Franciscus Kieckens as a 'prize book' at the Aalst Jesuit college on September 2, 1750.

Host Volume

Title Johannes Vlimmerius, <i>De veritate corporis et sangvinis Domini nostri Iesu Christi in sacrosancto eucharistiæ sacramento</i>
Date of Origin/Publication 1561
Place of Origin/Publication Leuven
Shelfmark Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, BIB.TH.001033
Persons Hieronymus Wellaeus (printer)
Remarks

Fragment was used in the binding, possibly as a quire guard. Fragment was ejected from binding at an unknown point in time.

Bibliography

  • Kienhorst, Hans, Lering en stichting op klein formaat: Middelnederlandse rijmteksten in eenkolomsboekjes van perkament (Leuven: Peeters, 2005), vol. 1, p. 23, note 89