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Middle Dutch prayer book

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Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1667/005

Merel Waeyaert, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2021 (Born Digital)

Remarks by the Editor

Additional information by Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023.

General Information

Title Middle Dutch prayer book
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1667/005
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Low Countries
Date of Origin 15th century
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis: angular letters, kissing letters, slanted and straight d.

Original Condition

Page Height at least 20 mm
Height of Written Area at least 20 mm
Width of Written Area at least 34 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns at least 34 mm
Number of Lines at least 5
Line Height 4 – 5 mm
Ruling Full lead-point ruling

Current Condition

Extent 1 bifolium (strip)
Dimensions 81 x 20 mm
More about the Current Condition

Remnants of glue visible.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Red versals, red colour stroking, red rubrication (underlining).

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Middle Dutch (main); Latin (additional)
    • Title Middle Dutch prayer book
    • Content Description

      Possibly contains references to the Psalms.
    • fol. [2]v-[1]r

History

Provenance

The fragment volume was bought by the Dutch collector and anqituarian Jacobus Johannes Nieuwenhuyzen (d. 1862).
Persons and Institutions Jacobus Johannes Nieuwenhuyzen (previous owner, d. 1862)
Remarks

This fragment was bound in a volume together different unrelated fragments of medieval and early modern manuscript fragments. The volume was disbound in 2022 and all the fragments are now stored separately. 

Bibliography

  • Derolez, Albert, Medieval Manuscripts: Ghent University Library (Ghent: Snoeck, 2017), p. 245.
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