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Jan van Leeuwen, Dboec vanden tien gheboden

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Brugge, Openbare Bibliotheek Brugge, Ms. SVC 47

Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2024 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Jan van Leeuwen, <i>Dboec vanden tien gheboden</i>
Shelfmarks Ms. SVC 47
Page/Folio Reference fol. 48
Material Parchment
Place of Origin West Brabant, Hoeilaart (Groenendaal Priory)
Date of Origin ca. 1415-1420
Persons possibly copied by Sayman van Wijc
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis libraria.
General Remarks

This fragment once formed part of the so-called 'Groenendaal Van Leeuwen miscellany', an in-house produced manuscript that contained treatises by Jan van Leeuwen, a friar at Groenendaal. Five or six other loose leaves from this manuscript are preserved at KBR in Brussels (Ms. II 138; one of the leaves preserved under this shelfmark probably comes from a different codex). Two cuttings of historiated initials pasted into a book of hours are preserved in Cape Town (National Library of South Africa, Grey Collection, MS 3 c 4).

Vandemeulebroucke and Kors date the original manuscript to c. 1415-1420, a date recently also accepted by Desplenter. Deschamps and Mulder (p. 42) date the manuscript to the early fifteenth century. In earlier scholarship the codex is dated to c.1400 (Kwakkel, 150, n. 57).

Original Condition

Page Height 325 – 326 mm
Page Width 228 – 232 mm
Height of Written Area 225 mm
Width of Written Area 156 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 77 mm
Number of Lines 35
Line Height 3 mm
Ruling Blind-point ruling; ruling almost no longer visible. Prickings visible in upper and outer margins.
Numbering

Medieval foliation in Roman numerals in red ink in upper right corner ('xlviij').
More about the Condition

The size of the page is based on the untrimmed leaves (fol. 2) preserved in KBR Brussels.

Current Condition

Extent 1 leaf (trimmed)
Dimensions 255 x 218 mm
More about the Current Condition

Leaf has been trimmed, but there is almostly no text loss. The leaf shows traces of paper glued to the surface.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Red plain initials, red rubrication, red underlining, red colour stroking.

Running titles in upper margin ('Liber', fol. 48v; 'i9' [= 'primus'], fol. 48r).

Fol. 48r has a rubricated 'nota' sign in the outer margin accompanied by a rubricated bracket identifying the relevant passage in the text. This feature also appears in other Jan van Leeuwen manuscripts produced at Groenendaal Priory (such as Brussels, KBR, hs. IV 401).

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons Jan van Leeuwen
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title Dboec vanden tien gheboden
    • Content Description

      Fragment contains the final part of Jan van Leeuwen's treatise on the Ten Commandments (1358) in the second redaction.

      • Fol. 48r: Treatise on the Eighth Commandment
      • Fol 48v: Treatises on the Ninth (Vanden neghenste ghebode dat nyemant begheren en sal eens anders beddeghenoot) and Tenth Commandments (Vanden tienste ghebode dat nyemant begheren en sal eens anders goet)
    • fol. 48r
    • Edition Desplenter, Youri, ‘Puzzelen met Jan van Leeuwen. Over een recent gevonden folio uit het vrijwel volledig verloren Groenendaals verzamelhandschrift’, Spiegel der Letteren, 66.3 (2024), pp. 278–82

History

Provenance

The fragment was part of the collection assembled by Jean Van Caloen (1884-1972), whose stamp is visible on fol. 48r ('. Biblioteca . / Joannis van Caloen / . Lophem .') It is part of the Van Caloen collection that was in recent years deposited at Openbare Bibliotheek Brugge.
Persons and Institutions Jean van Caloen (previous owner, until 1972)

Host Volume

Remarks

The way the fragment was trimmed and the fact that one side is much darker as the result of dirt, shows that it was used as a cover for a small book; the exact host volume is unknown.

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