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Penninc and Pieter Vostaert, Roman van Walewein

Middle Dutch Arthurian romance

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Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1619

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General Information

Title Penninc and Pieter Vostaert, <i>Roman van Walewein</i>
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1619
Former Shelfmarks MS. 719
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Southern Low Countries, presumably Flanders
Date of Origin second half of the fourteenth century
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis libraria.

Original Condition

Page Width 220 – 230 mm
Width of Written Area 128 – 130 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 57 – 60 mm
Line Height 4 – 5 mm
Ruling Lead-point ruling
Numbering

Modern foliation using Arabic numerals in pencil.

Current Condition

Extent 2 leaves
Dimensions 230 x 160 mm
More about the Current Condition

Fragments mounted on paper and bound in codex, alongside notes by Willem De Vreese.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Red cadels and colour stroking.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons Penninc (author), Pieter Vostaert (author)
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title <i>Roman van Walewein<i/>
    • Content Description
      • fol. [1]ra: v. 7877-7924
      • fol. [1]rb: v. 7927-7974
      • fol. [1]va: v. 7977-8024
      • fol. [1]vb: v. 8024-8074
      • fol. [2]ra: v. 9075-9123 
      • fol. [2]rb: v. 9125-9173
      • fol. [2]va: v. 9175-9223
      • fol. [2]vb: v. 9225-9273
    • fol. [1]r
    • Edition Penninc, and Vostaert, Pieter, De jeeste van Walewein en het schaakbord, ed. by Van Es, G.A. (Zwolle: Tjeenk Willink, 1957), p. 226-238, 266-278

History

Provenance

Discovered in the city archives of Oudenaarde by archivist and librarian L. Van Lerberghe. Van Lerberge provided the fragments to Constant Serrure around 1850 for a publication. A. Diegherick, archivist at the State Archives in Ghent, gifted the fragments to Ghent University Library in September 1890.

Host Volume

Title Ambrogio Calepino, <i>Pentaglotton</i>
Date of Origin/Publication 1546
Place of Origin/Publication Antwerpen
Remarks

Fragments were used as flyleaves.

Bibliography

  • Serrure, Constant Philippe, ‘Gevonden fragmenten van een oud rymwerk’, De Eendragt, 5 (1850), 23
     https://books.google.be/books?id=hYQ-AAAAcAAJ
  • Derolez, Albert, Medieval Manuscripts: Ghent University Library (Ghent: Snoeck, 2017), p. 239
  • Penninc, and Vostaert, Pieter, De jeeste van Walewein en het schaakbord, ed. by Van Es, G.A. (Zwolle: Tjeenk Willink, 1957), p. 400-428
     https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/penn002jees01_01/penn002jees01_01_0005.php
  • Kienhorst, Hans, De handschriften van de Middelnederlandse ridderepiek: een codicologische beschrijving. Deel 1 (Deventer: Sub Rosa, 1988), p. 217-218
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