Fragmentarium

Jacob van Maerlant, Wapene Martijn – Fragment

Parchment · 23 strips (from 2 double leaves) · 1351 – 1400 CE · Brabant · 20 x 350 mm (strip)

F-l57l

Brussel/Bruxelles, KBR, ms. 77-78

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Language
Middle Dutch

Reconstruction 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, 'Love is (not) in the Bin. Over het belang van hartstrookjes voor de reconstructie van Middelnederlandse literatuur', In Monte Artium (forthcoming 2026).

The fragment was originally digitized by the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), see: https://uurl.kbr.be/bib/10744172

Moors personally asked for permission to publish the pictures of the sewing guards.

The pictures in the 'Reconstructed Sequence' are made by Moors.

(Sofie Moors (Universiteit Antwerpen/FWO Vlaanderen))

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Sofie Moors, 2025
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Online Since
09/01/2026

Jacob van Maerlant, Wapene Martijn

Parchment · 23 strips (from 2 double leaves) · 1351 – 1400 CE · Brabant · 20 x 350 mm (strip)

F-l57l

Brussel/Bruxelles, KBR, ms. 77-78

Jacob van Maerlant, Wapene Martijn – Fragment

Parchment · 23 strips (from 2 double leaves) · 1351 – 1400 CE · Brabant · 20 x 350 mm (strip)

F-l57l

Brussel/Bruxelles, KBR, ms. 77-78

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Maerlant, Jacob van

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Jacob van Maerlant, Wapene Martijn, Brussel/Bruxelles, KBR, ms. 77-78