Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea

Chapter 149-150, lives of resp. St Francis and St Pelagia

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Antwerpen, Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Fragm. 295 a-b

Remarks by the Editor

Additional remarks by Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023.

General Information

Title Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea
Shelfmarks Antwerpen, Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Fragm. 295 a-b
Material Parchment
Date of Origin first half 14th century
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis libraria.

General Remarks

Running titles (rubrics) in upper margin.

Original Condition

Page Height 164 mm
Page Width at least 98 mm
Height of Written Area 118 mm
Width of Written Area at least 37 mm
Width of Columns 36 – 37 mm
Number of Lines at least 35
Line Height 3 – 4 mm
Ruling Lead-point ruling
More about the Condition

The original width is estimated with the procedure of J.P. Gumbert’s statistical research on page dimensions of manuscripts. He has shown that the ratio of height to width generally lies between 0.60 and 0.80. The estimated minimum width is 98 mm.

Current Condition

Extent 2 strips
Dimensions 161-164 x 25-28 mm
More about the Current Condition

Fragments originally belonged to the same leaf and fit together.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Red and blue paraphs, red colour stroking, red rubrication.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons Jacobus de Voragine
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Legenda Aurea
    • Content Description

      Fragments contain a part of chapter 149-150 on respectively the lives of St Francis and St Pelagia. The preserved text corresponds to the edition by Graesse, p. 673 (recto: '[vi]scera patrui trans[fixit] ... cecidisset et penitus') and 674-675 (verso: '[si]milia diceret subito ... [poeni]tentiam ei salutarem iniunxit'). The second fragment, fol. [1], could not be identified more specific due to the severe fragmentation.

    • fragm. B r
    • Edition Jacobi a Voragine Legenda aurea: vulgo historia lombardica dicta, ed. by Johann Georg Theodor Graesse, 3rd edition (Vratislaviae: apud Guilelmum Koebner, 1890).

Host Volume

Title Jakob Omphalius, <i>De elocutionis imitatione ac apparatu liber unus</i>
Date of Origin/Publication 1555
Place of Origin/Publication Paris
Shelfmark Antwerpen, Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, C 1096
Persons Jakob Omphalius (author of host volume); Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (co-creator of host volume); Petrus Bembo (co-creator of host volume); Guillaume Julien (printer of host volume)
Remarks

Fragments were used as quire guards.