Overview Facsimile
Description
Show TEI/XML Download TEI/XML Print Description

Middle Dutch miscellany

De borchgravinne van Vergi (fol. 1r-2v); Poem on the Wedding at Cana (fol. 3r); Van der ziele ende van den lechame, in verse (fol. 3r-v).

F-u7xd

Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1590

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

General Information

Title Middle Dutch miscellany
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1590
Page/Folio Reference fol. 1-3
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Flanders
Date of Origin third quarter of the 14th century
Script, Hands

1 hand, northern gothica textualis libraria.

Original Condition

Page Height 305 – 307 mm
Page Width 255 – 258 mm
Height of Written Area 255 – 260 mm
Width of Written Area 210 – 213 mm
Number of Columns 3
Width of Columns 65 – 70 mm
Number of Lines up to 50
Line Height 4 – 5 mm
Numbering
  • Fourteenth-century foliation using Roman numerals: '.lxxxvij.' (fol. 1r), '.lxxxviij.' (fol. 2r).
  • Modern foliation in pencil using Arabic numerals: fol. 1r-3r.

Current Condition

Extent 1 leaf (trimmed), 1 bifolium (trimmed)
Dimensions 308 x 257 mm
More about the Current Condition

Bound in a modern codex alongside introductory notes by Willem De Vreese (dated 26-05-1915).

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Initials in red and blue (green?) ink. Red rubrication and colour stroking.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title <i>De borchgravinne van Vergi</i>
    • fol.1r
    • Edition Stoett, F.A., ed., Die borchgravinne van Vergi. Middelnederlandsch gedicht uit het begin der 14e eeuw (Zutphen: W.J. Thieme & Co., 1892)
    • Remarks

      A Middle Dutch version of La Châtelaine de Vergy. Text differs from the other, completely preserved, Middle Dutch version of this story (in the Van Hulthem manuscript).
  • Content Item
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title Poem on the Wedding at Cana
    • fol.2v-3r
    • Remarks

      Fol. 3r only contains the final 20 verses of the poem.
  • Content Item
    • Persons <i>Van der ziele ende van den lechame</i> in verse
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • fol.2v-3r
    • Edition Lambin, Jan Jacob, ‘Van der zielen ende van den lechame, een oud gedicht, en bedenkingen daerop’, Belgisch museum voor de Nederduitsche tael- en letterkunde en de geschiedenis des vaderlands, 2 (1838), 57–77

History

Provenance

Discovered by Ypres city archivist J.J. Lambin in 1837. Lambin entrusted the fragments to his successor Isidore Diegerick. Diegerick gifted the fragments to his son Alphonse Diegerick, state archivist at Ghent. In September 1890, Alphonse Diegerick gifted the fragments to Ghent University Library.

Host Volume

Remarks

The bifolium was used as binding for archival documents (account registers for the years 1521-1532) of the Church of Our Lady at Ypres.

Bibliography

  • Derolez, Albert, Medieval Manuscripts: Ghent University Library (Ghent: Snoeck, 2017), p. 236
  • Stoett, F.A., ed., Die borchgravinne van Vergi. Middelnederlandsch gedicht uit het begin der 14e eeuw (Zutphen: W.J. Thieme & Co., 1892)
     https://books.google.be/books?id=zCKwbFIxdEgC
  • Lambin, Jan Jacob, ‘Van der zielen ende van den lechame, een oud gedicht, en bedenkingen daerop’, Belgisch museum voor de Nederduitsche tael- en letterkunde en de geschiedenis des vaderlands, 2 (1838), 57–77
     https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/will028belg02_01/will028belg02_01_0008.php
  • Kienhorst, Hans, De handschriften van de Middelnederlandse ridderepiek: een codicologische beschrijving. Deel 1 (Deventer: Sub Rosa, 1988), 215-216
Back to top