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: 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.

Pictures are taken by Glenn Bosmans and Remco Sleiderink.

• Sofie Moors, 2025
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