Jan van Ruusbroec, Een spieghel der eeuwigher salicheit
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General Information
1 hand. Gothica hybrida formata.
Original Condition
Medieval foliation using Roman numerals in upper margin ('cclxxxi')
Fragment might have been part of a quinto quire; it might have served as the front leaf.
Current Condition
The parchment fragment was cut in two unequal halves and is trimmed on the left, resulting in some text loss. The two half leaves were used as binding material: two vertical folds run across the middle of both halves, presumably to support a spine, and some sewing holes are still clearly visible. Fragments were later re-adjusted with adhesive tape.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Red colour stroking; red paraphs.
Content
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Content Item
- Persons Jan van Ruusbroec
- Text Language Middle Dutch
- Title <i>Een spieghel der eeuwigher salicheit</i>
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Content Description
Fragment from Een spieghel der eeuwigher salicheit, Cap. VIII, 'Vier punten vander ewigher minnen Gods'.
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- Edition Ruusbroec, Jan van, Werken. Deel 3: Vanden XII dogheden, Een spieghel der ewigher salicheit, Vanden kerstenen ghelove, ed. by Jean Baptiste David (Gent: Maetschappy der Vlaemsche Bibliophilen, 1860)
History
Fragments discovered by Jules de Tramoy at the Archiepiscopal Archives of Mechelen in the first half of the 20th century. Fragments were gifted to the Ruusbroecgenootschap in 1998, alongside other maculature fragments from this archive.
Fragments were used in a book binding.
Fragment might have been part of the collection of the regular content Bethanië in Mechelen. The original manuscript might have been part of the belongings of nun Jacoba van Loon-Heinsberg (died 1466), as a Ruusbroec manuscript is mentioned in a list of her belongings.