Jacob van Maerlant, Wapene Martijn – Fragment
Parchment · 2 bifolia (trimmed, loose) · 1376 – 1400 CE · Brabant · 200 mm x 123 (trimmed)F-px3n
Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms 6848
Curated Tags
Century
Text Language
Script Type
Persons
Jacob, van Maerlant
(Author)
Pleij, Herman, 1943-
(Describer)
Thomas de Argentina, O.E.S.A.
(Author)
Places
Origin:
Strasbourg
Summary
This fragment is one of eight known fragmentary witnesses of the Middle Dutch strophic poem Wapene Martijn (also known as the Martijn Trilogy) by the Flemish poet Jacob van Maerlant. A dataset containing transcriptions of all eighteen witnesses was recently published: 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.
For a study of this specific witness see Moors, Sofie, 'Een bijzondere Brabantse tekstgetuige van de Martijntrilogie van Jacob van Maerlant De fragmenten Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms 6848', Queeste, 29.1 (2022), 36-65.
Summary Author
Sofie Moors (Universiteit Antwerpen/FWO Vlaanderen)
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