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Lodewijk van Velthem, Spiegel Historiael, Part V; Jacob van Maerlant, Rijmbijbel

Spiegel Historiael (fol. 1r-3r); Rijmbijbel (fol. 3r-12v)

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Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.2749/3-4

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

General Information

Title Lodewijk van Velthem, <i>Spiegel Historiael</i>, Part V; Jacob van Maerlant, <i>Rijmbijbel</i>
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.2749.3-4
Page/Folio Reference fol. 1-12
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Brabant, presumably in the north-eastern part
Date of Origin c. 1325
Persons Ferguut scribe (fl. 1325-1350).
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis libraria

Original Condition

Page Height 290 – 297 mm
Page Width 240 – 265 mm
Height of Written Area 237 – 242 mm
Width of Written Area 170 – 180 mm
Number of Columns 3
Width of Columns 50 – 54 mm
Number of Lines up to 56
Line Height 4 – 5 mm
Ruling Lead-point ruling
Numbering

Modern foliation in Arabic numbers in pencil.
More about the Condition

In the right corner of fol. 9r, prickings are visible.

Current Condition

Extent 6 bifolia (trimmed)
Dimensions 300 x 265 mm
More about the Current Condition

Bound in a modern cardboard codex. There are flyleaves between fols. 1-3, 5-8 and 9-12.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Inhabited initial (fol. [3]r); initials with decorative heads on the top line of every page; pen-flourished initials and versals with interior reserved shapes in red and blue ink on every page; rubric in red (fol. [3]r).

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons Lodewijk van Velthem (Author)
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title <i>Spiegel historiael</i>
    • Content Description

      Part 4, book 5.

      • Fol. 1r: Van roekeloesheiden te Gode wert, v. 31 - Van denselven noch, v. 10.
      • Fol. 1v-2r: Sente Bernaert, van castiene, v.1 - Van den riken een castien, v. 19.
      • Fol. 2v: Van sconen proverbien, v. 38 - Van den heren noch, v. 3
      • Fol. 3r: Bernaert van der Drieheit, v. 68 - Van sottien, v. 80.

      In this version, the text ends with these verses: "Also iet bescreuen vinde / hier met maker des boecs [al?] inde / die die screef god moet hem geuen / hemelrike na dit corte leuen".
    • fol. [1]r
    • Edition de Pauw, Napoléon, Middelnederlandsche gedichten en fragmenten (Gent: Siffer, 1903), 193-250.
    • Remarks

      Presumably part of the fifth part of the Spiegel Historiael by Lodewijk van Velthem. The text corresponds with 'Sente Bernards bloemen', a Middle Dutch florilegium of quotes by St Bernard of Clairvaux which may have been part of the fifth part of the Spiegel Historiael.
  • Content Item
    • Persons
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title <i>Rijmbijbel</i>
    • Content Description

      v. 1-552. 1238-1349, 1456-1688, 1801-1912, 3972-4640, 23520-23743, 23856-23967.
    • fol. [2]v-fol. [3]r

History

Remarks

Hand-drawn heraldic shield drawn across fol. 1v-4r resembles the coat of arms of Coenraet, Lord of Buren (Grimbergse oorlogen, v. 4910). Next to the shield, 'Landuur' is written in a 16th-century hand. The exact meaning of these pen notes are unknown, but these probably have something to do with earlier provenance.

Host Volume

Remarks

The fragments were used as bindings for archival documents of the Conseil de Flandre kept at the State Archives in Ghent. They were discovered by archivist Victor Gaillard in the nineteenth century and transferred to Ghent University Library between 1919 and 1921. Each leaf has a stamp of provenance on its recto side: 'Archives du Conseil de Flandre', 'Archives de l'Etat á Gand'.

Bibliography

  • Biemans, Jos A. A. M., Onsen Speghele Ystoriale in Vlaemsche. Codicologisch onderzoek naar de overlevering van de Spiegel historiael van Jacob van Maerlant, Philip Utenbroeke en Lodewijk van Velthem, met een beschrijving van de handschriften en fragmenten (Leuven: Peeters, 1997), p. 436-438
  • Derolez, Albert, Medieval Manuscripts: Ghent University Library (Ghent: Snoeck, 2017), p. 270

  • Hutter, Matanja, ‘Inventaris van de Rijmbijbel-handschriften’, in De Rijmbijbel van Jacob van Maerlant: het oudste geïllustreerde handschrift in het Nederlands, ed. by Bram Caers and Jan Pauwels (Amsterdam: University Press, 2023), p. 15
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