Jacob van Maerlant, Wapene Martijn Electronic version according to TEI P5.1 Fragmentarium - Digital Research Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments

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 Montigny-le-Bretonneux Archives départementales des Yvelines 1F 180 Jacob van Maerlant, Wapene Martijn Around 1400 Brabant fol. 1r-2v Middle Dutch Wapene Martijn Jacob van Maerlant Fol. 1: Eerste Martijn: vs. 1-178. Fol. 2: Derde Martijn: vs. 325-429 and 443-507 (stanza 34 is missing). Reconstruction: Fol. 1r (= fol. *1r): Eerste Martijn, vs. 1-88. Fol. 1v (= fol. *1v): Eerste Martijn, vs. 89-178. Fol. 2r (= fol. *10r): Derde Martijn, vs. 325-414. Fol. 2v (= fol. *10v): Derde Martijn, vs. 415-507. Bosmans Glenn, Sleiderink, Remco, 'Maerlant in Yvelines. Een nieuw fragment van de Martijns van Jacob van Maerlant (Montigny-le-Bretonneux, Archives départementales des Yvelines, 1F 180)', Queeste, 26.1 (2019), 70-97. Bosmans & Sleiderink (2019) have transcribed the fragment (siglum Y) and have compared the verses with the critical edition of the text by Verdam and Leendertz (1918).  Moors et al. (2024) have digitally transcribed the fragment. Parchment 1 bifolium (trimmed)159216125183210 x 159 mm (fol. 1); 216 x 128 mm (fol. 2) No foliation visible. The fragment originally formed part of a single-quire booklet of five bifolia, a quinio. A reconstruction of the original collation (by the author of this Description) is available on VisColl: 1V(10). The surviving fragments once formed the outer bifolium of the original booklet, which also included the Tweede Martijn.

The right side of fol. 2 is trimmed, resulting in text loss. Both folia are trimmed along the upper side, without text loss.

The information on the original and current condition are based on Bosmans & Sleiderink (2019).

 Prickings are visible on fol. 1. Ruling is visible on fol. 1r en fol. 2v. 55

The verses are written in littera textualis by a single hand. Between columns 2va and 2vb, written in a more modern hand, it reads: “Papier censier du prieuré de Marquemont comme aussy / un mémoire de son revenu”.

 Plain initials (red) indicate the start of the stanzas; rubric (red); initial 'W' (red); colour-stroked letters (red) at the start of each verse. In 2016, Isabelle Bretthauer (Archives nationales de France) recognized the potential significance of this fragment, and at her suggestion, Claudia Rabel (Institut de la recherche et d’histoire des textes, IRHT) identified the verses as remnants of the Eerste and Derde Martijn by Jacob van Maerlant. In 2019, Glenn Bosmans and Remco Sleiderink published a transcription and material description. Brabant The fragments do not appear to have been written in Maerlant's usual Flemish dialect, but rather in Brabantian, although Flemish features are still in evidence in some places. See Bosmans & Sleiderink (2019, 79) for examples. Description by: Sofie Moors, 2025 Bosmans, Glenn, and Remco Sleiderink, 'Maerlant in Yvelines. Een nieuw fragment van de Martijns van Jacob van Maerlant (Montigny-le-Bretonneux, Archives départementales des Yvelines, 1F 180)', Queeste, 26.1 (2019), 70-97. Moors, Sofie, Kestemont, Mike, and Remco Sleiderink, 'The Martijn Trilogy Manuscripts: An Open Dataset for Analyzing Scribal Variation', Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 9.1 (2024), 1-21. Verdam, J., and P. Leendertz (eds.), Jacob van Maerlant’s Strophische Gedichten. Nieuwe bewerking der uitgave van Franck en Verdam. Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff’s, 1918.