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Jacob van Maerlant, Rijmbijbel

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Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1639/1

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

General Information

Title Jacob van Maerlant, <i>Rijmbijbel</i>
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1639/1
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Low Countries
Date of Origin 15th century

Original Condition

Page Width 242 – 245 mm
Width of Written Area 175 – 177 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 80 – 82 mm
Number of Lines at least 48
Line Height 5 – 6 mm
Ruling Lead-point ruling
Numbering

Fifteenth-century foliaton using Roman numerals. The leaves are numbered .xvj. and .xxiii. 

Current Condition

Extent 1 bifolium (trimmed)
Dimensions 159 x 245 mm
More about the Current Condition

The fragment is bound into a small volume with two fragments from a different Rijmbijbel manuscript alongside added notes by Willem De Vreese.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Plain initials in red, the initials of each verse in a separate column highlighted in red ink, cadels.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title Jacob van Maerlant, <i>Rijmbijbel</i>
    • Content Description
      • Fol. [1]ra: v. 2892-1915
      • Fol. [1]rb: v. 2940-2963
      • Fol. [1]va: v. 2988-3011
      • Fol. [1]vb: verses not published anywhere else
      • Fol. [2]ra: v. 4084-4108
      • Fol. [2]rb: v. 4133-4157
      • Fol. [2]va: v. 4181-4205
      • Fol. [2]vb: v. 4229-4253
    • fol.[1r]
    • Edition Gysseling, Maurits, ed., Jacob van Maerlant, Rijmbijbel, Corpus van Middelnederlandse teksten (tot en met het jaar 1300), 2 (Leiden, 1983), iii

History

Provenance

In collection of the Ghent University Library since the nineteenth century.
Remarks

On fol. [1]r and [2]v, added notes are found. The additional note on fol. [1]r is in Middle Dutch and largely illegible (save for the last words 'ghedaen heeft', while the additional note on fol. [2]v can be identified as a citation from M. Tullius Cicero's Paradoxa stoicorum ('Nihil est tam incredibile, quod non dicendo fiat probabile, nihil tam horridum, tam incultum, quod non splendescat oratione et tamquam excolatur').

Bibliography

  • Gysseling, Maurits, ed., Jacob van Maerlant, Rijmbijbel, Corpus van Middelnederlandse teksten (tot en met het jaar 1300), 2 (Leiden, 1983), iii
     <https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/maer002mgys01_01/>

  • Derolez, Albert, Medieval Manuscripts: Ghent University Library (Ghent: Snoeck, 2017), 242
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