Content:
Contains, all in Dutch: (ff. 1r-2v) Vander begheerten der ynniger
sielen. - (ff. 2v-28v) Song of Songs. - (ff. 29r-383v) Devotional
miscellany. Note:
Illustration: Coloured woodcut of the Virgin Mary with Child on the
fly-leaf.
Binding: Medieval binding, contemporary (original). - Leather
(brown, blind-tooled) over wooden boards with bevelled edges. Two
clasp fastenings (closing back to front, straps and hooks renewed).
Remnants of fixed page markers (tabs, ff. 236-237) on bookblock
fore edge. - Bookblock resewn, spine renewed.
Textual: (ff. 1r-2v) Incipit: "Vergave god dattu den hemel
schoerste ende neder quamste...". - (ff. 2v-28v) Incipit: "Hier
beghint cantica canticorum dat is der mynnen sanck in duutsche...".
- (ff. 29r-383v) Lives of Jesus and the Virgin Mary, alternating
with prayers, hymns, sequences, hours and sermons.
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (Rogge & 1887):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:124748
Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1937):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491717
Description (Lieftinck 1948):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:489936
Description (BNM 445):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1907051
Also described by Handschriftencensus and MMDC. Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century