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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4557

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 213

Title:

Rule of Saint Augustine; Sermon on Matthew 25:6

Rule of Saint Augustine

Sermons

Author:

Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo WIKIDATA

Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141

Hugh of Saint Victor WIKIDATA

Place:

Brussels, Flanders

Brussels TGN

Flanders TGN

Date:

1480-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350); Latin

Middle Dutch WIKIDATA

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+126+iii; 136 x 99 mm bound to 145 x 110 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Spegher, Marghareta van den, Sister

Sister Marghareta van den Spegher WIKIDATA

Essen, Anna van, Sister

Sister Anna van Essen WIKIDATA

Prince Arenberg Library

Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven Universiteitsbibliotheek WIKIDATA

Note:

Eleven nuns and their confessor listed in colophon (fol. 118r): Beatrix Noeys (†1497), Margarete Bont, Janne van den Velde (†1504), Maria van Hausbeke (†1530), Katherine Tymmermans, (†1530), Maria Meerts (†1503), Margarete Joerdaens (†1519), Janne Colijns (†1491), Anne Joerdaens (†1495), Rijckmoct van Zellien (†1532), Margarete van den Rade (†1540), and Father Philips Nycholaes (†1500).
Confessor Philips Nycholaes's tenure at the Cloister of Jericho from 1480 to his death in 1500 set the outer date limits of this manuscript
Dutch with some Latin rubrics
Binding: Original vellum wrappers; traces of two thongs each on front and back cover; sticker attached to spine; edges dyed blue
Layout: One column of eighteen lines; frame-ruled in dry point and ink with double horizontal bounding lines; the commentary and rule text alternate in the single column, with the rule text underlined in red; written area: 98 x 68 mm
Script: Hybrida
Script: Cursive (fols. 119r-126v)
Script: Scribe: Beatrix Noeys, Margarete Bont, Janne van den Velde, Maria van Hausbeke, Katherine Tymmermans, Maria Meerts, Margarete Joerdaens, Janne Colijns, Anne Joerdaens, Rijckmoct van Zellien, Margarete van den Rade, and Father Philips Nycholaes
Script: Hand changes at fols. 3r-11r, 11r-14r, 14r-22r, 22v-30r, 30v-35r, 35r-50v, 51r-58v, 59r-66v, 67r-83r, 83v-98v, 99r-197r, 107v-118r, 119r-126v
Decoration: Two three-line initials (fol. 3r, 125v) and one five-line initial (fol. 119r) in blue ink with red penwork; rubrication, underlining, paragraph marks and touches to capitals in red throughout
Related resource: Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, originated by C. U. Faye, continued and edited by W. H. Bond (New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 451, no. 23.
Related resource: Stoop, Patricia, Schrijven in commissie. De zusters uit het Brusselse klooster Jericho en de preken van hun biechtvaders (ca. 1456–1510). Hilversum: Verloren, 2013 (Middeleeuwse Studies en Bronnen, CXXVII). 495 pp. (I mention the manuscript at pp. 26, 77, 83 nt. 138, 95, 119, 122-123 table 5, 329 n. 46, 347, 347 n. 81, and 400-402
Related resource: Webber, Philip E. "Medieval Netherlandic Manuscripts in Greater Philadelphia Libraries." Archives et bibliotheques de Belgique 47, no. 3-4 (1976), pp. 504-506 (article pp. 459-513).
Provenance: Marghareta van den Spiegher (inscription, S. Marghareta vanden Spiegher, fol. 3r); Sister Anna van Essen (1623; inscription, Dit boexken is in die bewaringhe van suster Anna van Elsen alsoo langhe alst haer overste belieft 1623 den 22 januarius, fol. 1r); Prince Arenberg Library; acquired by the Free Library in 1957 from H. P. Kraus (inscription in pencil, Kraus 59 RS.NXX, inside...

Keyword:

Europe--Flanders

Christianity

Colophons

Fathers of the church

Theology

Commentaries

Fifteenth century

Belgium

Dutch (culture or style)

Flemish (culture or style)

Institutional Record:

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Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia