Texts originated in the Devotio moderna movement. Collation: 1 (parchment flyleaf) + 2-165 + 166 (parchment flyleaf) + i (paper flyleaf) leaves : paper and parchment. Text in black ink; rubrics in red ink. Written in a Gothic hybrid hand (unit 4 in Gothic cursive) Decoration: historiated initial executed in blue, green and yellow watercolors, and red ink (ff. 46r); fol. 70r, in blue only; several initials in red ink. Katherina van Mispeltern was a nun of the Facons monastery when Elyzabeth van Daesdonc was prioress (between 1477 and 1486) and Willem Zeghers (our text reads: Sugger) was prior (between 1468 and 1481); Jacoba Custodis was a nun there while Iacobi de Molendino was prior (between 1481 and 1494) Accompanying materials: Letter by J.A.A.M. Biemans, 12 June, 2001, containing identification and description (6 leaves) in a separate envelope. Selected images also available online via The Digital Scriptorium Dutch and Latin. "f. Norbertus van Couwerven utitur, P.S." ([16--], former owner?, fol. 2r); Library of Rene-Jacques de la Faille de Waerloos, 1830-1902 (sold at Auction, in 1878) Herp, Hendrik, Spiegel der volcomenheit, Part I: De xii stervinghen, P. Lucidius Verschueren, ed., (Antwerp, 1931) Bruin, C. C. de, De Middelnederlandse vertaling van De imitatione Christi (Qui sequitur) van Thomas a Kempis in hs. Leiden, Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde 339 (Leiden, 1954) Item cataloged in hand by Jay Rovner, with reference to personal communication of Jos A.A.M. Biemans, Leiden, June, 2001.
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