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Jacob van Maerlant, Rijmbijbel

Die wrake van Jerusalem

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Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.3006

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

General Information

Title Jacob van Maerlant, <i>Rijmbijbel</i>
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.3006
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Brabant
Date of Origin first half 14th century
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis libraria.
General Remarks

Versals and paraphs in red.

Original Condition

Page Height at least 289 mm
Height of Written Area 250 – 251 mm
Number of Columns 4
Width of Columns 45 – 47 mm
Number of Lines 62
Line Height 3 – 4 mm

Current Condition

Extent 1 strip
Dimensions 54 x 289 mm
More about the Current Condition

The strip is bound in a twentieth-century codex. The same codex also contains photographic reproductions of the fragment, an offprint of the article by Paul De Keyser on the fragment, as well as two draft versions of the same article.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title <i>Rijmbijbel</i>
    • Content Description
      • fol. [1]r: v. 34284-34346
      • fol. [1]v: v. 34474-34536
    • fol. [1]r
    • Edition De Keyser, Paul, ‘Een nieuw fragment van de Wrake van Jerusalem van Jacob van Maerlant’, in Album Prof. Dr Frank Baur, den jubilaris bij zijn zestigsten verjaardag als huldeblijk aangeboden door collega’s vakgenoten en oud-leerlingen (Antwerpen / Brussel / Gent / Leuven: Standaard, 1948), II, 5–23
    • Remarks

      This part of the Rijmbijbel is also known by the title Die wrake van Jerusalem. It is an addition to the Rijmbijbel based off Flavius Josephus' account of the siege and destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 CE.

History

Provenance

First owned by Edouard De Keyser; afterwards (around 1947) donated to Ghent University Library.
Remarks

Bought by Edouard De Keyser (then-secretary of the Ghent Association for Collectors and Bibilophiles) at an auction; at this auction, the fragment was part of a mixed lot of manuscripts. Afterwards, Paul De Keyser of the Ghent University Library studied it, and it was then donated to the University Library.

Host Volume

Remarks

Fragment used to be part of a book binding; the exact volume is unknown.

Bibliography

  • De Keyser, Paul, ‘Een nieuw fragment van de Wrake van Jerusalem van Jacob van Maerlant’, in Album Prof. Dr Frank Baur, den jubilaris bij zijn zestigsten verjaardag als huldeblijk aangeboden door collega’s vakgenoten en oud-leerlingen (Antwerpen / Brussel / Gent / Leuven: Standaard, 1948), II, p. 5–23
  • Derolez, Albert, Medieval Manuscripts: Ghent University Library (Ghent: Snoeck, 2017), 273
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