Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, LTK 2055

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  • LTK 2055
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Date
  • German regions, western part? ; Low Countries, northern part? ; Nijmegen?, 14th century, c. 1380
Language
  • German
  • Dutch
Title
  • Büchlein der ewighen Weisheit / Henry Suso, and other text(s) (German, Dutch), LTK 2055
  • Vierde Brief
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Description
  • Content:
    Contains: (ff. 3r-97r) Büchlein der ewighen Weisheit / Henry Suso. - (ff. 97v-108r) Meditations and prayers (Dutch). - (ff. 108v-118r) Religious treatise in the form of a letter (Dutch). - (ff. 118v-119v) Vierde Brief / Jan van Ruusbroec.
    Note:
    Script: Obbema proposes Margaretha van Mekeren from the convent Bethlehem as scribe of the Dutch additions, but this is merely a hypothesis.
    Binding: Medieval binding, contemporary. - Leather (chamois sheepskin) over wooden boards with rounded edges. Two eye-and-pin fastenings (long-strap, closing on front board face; renewed). - Bookblock resewn; spine renewed, with plaited headbands.
    Textual: (ff. 3r-97r) Contains a Low German adaptation/translation, with several additions/corrections in Dutch. - (ff. 108v-118r) Obbema 1996 proposes Geert Grote as the author of this 'letter from Nijmegen', which is supported by R. van Dijk in the Prolegomena ad Gerardi Magni Opera omnia. Turnhout 2003, p. 248- (brief 96)..
    Description (Bouwman 2023): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
    Description (BNM 459): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1905411
    Also described by MMDC.
    Subject (temporal):
    Middle Ages
    14th century
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