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Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea

Cap. I, III-IV

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Antwerpen, Rijksarchief te Antwerpen, Verzameling Losse Aanwinsten, nr. 15.21

Laurent Breeus-Loos, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2021 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Jacobus de Voragine, <i>Legenda aurea</i>
Shelfmarks Antwerp, Rijksarchief te Antwerpen, Verzameling Losse Aanwinsten, nr. 15.21
Former Shelfmarks nr. 5 and nr. 6
Material Parchment
Date of Origin second half 13th century
Script, Hands

The rubrics are written in a northern gothica textualis libraria, the text in a northern gothica textualis libraria with a strong tendency towards a semitextualis: the 'a' is mostly executed with a single compartiment. This might also have been the result of rapid writing.

On most sheets, corrections have been applied by another contemporary hand (probably s. XIV) in a lighter colour of ink (in some cases marginal and interlinear additions too). Presumably, the inscription in the lower margin of fol. [2]v is by the same hand.

Original Condition

Page Height 196 mm
Page Width 134 mm
Height of Written Area 152 – 155 mm
Width of Written Area 95 – 101 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 44 – 46 mm
Number of Lines 42 – 43
Line Height 3 – 4 mm
Ruling Full lead-point ruling
Numbering

Medieval foliation using Arabic numerals in upper right corner, but only on fol. [1]r (fol. [1]r: '.3.')
Collation

Fragment was the outer bifolium of a quire; a catchword is visible on fol. [2]v.
More about the Condition

Running titles in red. Lead-point ruling barely visible. Prickings visible in outer margin of fol. [1], and in lower margin of fol. [2].

Current Condition

Extent 1 bifolium
Dimensions 196 x 134 mm

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Rubrics (red), paraphs (red, blue), colour stroking (red), pen-flourished initials with extending J-staff border (initials in blue and red, penwork in red and blue)

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons Jacobus de Voragine
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title <i>Legenda aurea</i>
    • Content Description

      Cap. I (De adventu Domini), Cap. III (De sancto Nicolao), Cap. IV (De sancta Lucia virgine)
    • fol. [1]r
    • Edition Jacobi a Voragine Legenda aurea: vulgo historia lombardica dicta, ed. by Johann Georg Theodor Graesse, 3rd edition (Vratislaviae: apud Guilelmum Koebner, 1890)., p. 5-8, 27-31

Host Volume

Remarks

Fragment presumably functioned as the cover for an unidentified 16th-century account book related to the year 1586. Fol. [1v] contains several 16th-century inscriptions, including some of the year "1586".
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