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Scroll with Middle Dutch proverbs and sayings

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Antwerpen, Ruusbroecgenootschap, Neerl. 413/1

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

General Information

Title Scroll with Middle Dutch proverbs and sayings
Shelfmarks Antwerpen, Ruusbroecgenootschap, Neerl. 413/1
Former Shelfmarks Olim 413
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Southern Limburg, possibly the area around Bilzen
Date of Origin 14th century
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis currens, one hand.

Original Condition

Page Height at least 444 mm
Page Width at least 85 mm
Height of Written Area at least 444 mm
Width of Written Area at least 76 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 30 – 40 mm
Number of Lines at least 114
Line Height 3 – 5 mm
Ruling No longer visible
More about the Condition

No writing executed on back side of scroll.

Current Condition

Extent 1 scroll (2 parts)
Dimensions 444 x 85 mm
More about the Current Condition

Fragment consists of two fragments of same scroll. A string was attached on the right sides of both fragments. The string is not original, but was added to the fragments when these were used in the lining of a box (see History).

Desideer Stracke used a reagent to decipher the text for his 1928 publication of the text; the parchment degraded because of this.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Black paraphs. No further decoration visible.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title Scroll with Middle Dutch proverbs and sayings
    • fol. [1]r
    • Edition Van der Poel, Dieuwke E., ‘Spreukstrofen op een perkamenten rol’, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, 123 (2007), 122-135

History

Provenance

In the summer of 1926 J.B. Paquay (1878-1936), dean and rector of the parish of Bilzen, offered the fragments to Desideer Stracke S.J. (1875-1975), founding member of the Ruusbroec Institute.
Remarks

Fragments were glued to the inside of a box (presumably for a liturgical object) as lining; a Middle Dutch fragment of the life of St Margaret of Antioch (F-gb7s on Fragmentarium) was used in this box for the same purpose.

Bibliography

  • Van der Poel, Dieuwke E., ‘Spreukstrofen op een perkamenten rol’, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, 123 (2007), 108–38.
  • Stracke, D.A., ‘Merkwaardige perkamentfragmenten’, Tijdschrift voor taal en letteren, 16 (1928), 261–69.
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