Form:
1 volume, 183 leaves ; 215x145 mm Content:
Contains: (f. 1v) Table of contents. - (ff. 2r-118r) Sinte
Jheronymus sterfboeck. - (ff. 119r-139r) Historia de spiritu
Guidonis (Dutch) / John Gobi. - (ff. 139r-151r) Oerloy der ewigher
wijsheit / Henry Suso. Excerpt (book 2, chapter 2). - (ff.
152r-161v) Speghel der sunders / Pseudo-Augustine of Hippo. - (ff.
161v-170v) Van den anxt ende vander mynnen gods. - (ff. 170v-179v)
Vita of St. Euphrosyna / Jacobus de Voragine. - (ff. 179v-182v)
Four exempla of the Virgin Mary, including a translation of
Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum, III, 65. - Empty:
ff. 1r (except for ownership note), 151v. Note:
Origin: Based on the dialect.
Date and script: Based on colophon: (f. 183r) "Inden jaeren ons
heren dusent vier hondert ende achtentwintich is dit boeck
ghescreven vermids heren Johanne van wederden preister uutgheseget
een deel wat van den lesten Ende hevet dit van mynnen ghescreven.
begherende mede deelachtich te werden alder vruchten die yemant
lesende uut desen boke vercrighen mach ende datmen voer em bidden
wille onsen heren. Voertmer datmen mit aller vlite dit boeck waer.
wanttet crane van stove is. ende men niet lichtelike uuten hues en
leene in werliker lude hande. went si quelicke pleghen die boeke te
waren".
Script: Two scribes: ff. 2r-161v (A), 1v and 162r-183r (B). - A is
Johan van Wederden, based on colophon (f. 183r).
Decoration: Unfinished. With space provided for initials.
Binding: Medieval binding, contemporary. - Leather (brown,
blind-tooled) over wooden boards. Old (medieval?) replacement of
spine covering fixed with iron nails (2x5), three and two missing).
Clasp fastenings (closing back to front, straps and hooks missing).
Traces of fixed page markers (tabs) on bookblock fore edge.
Textual: (ff. 2r-118r) Dutch translations of Pseudo-Eusebius's
letter to Damasus and Theodosius on Jerome's death (Epistula de
morte Hieronymi), Pseudo-Augustine of Hippo's letter to Cyril on
the magnificence of Jerome (Epistola de magnificentiis beati
Hieronymi) and Pseudo-Cyril's letter to Augustine of Hippo on the
miracles of Jerome (Epistula de miraculis Hieronymi). Incipit: "Hij
beghint eusebius epistole van sunte jheronimus dode ... [Incipit:]
Enen eersamen vader damasio bisscop portuensi ...". - (ff.
119r-139r) Dutch translation of Latin prose story about Guy d'Alet
whose ghost describes his experience in purgatory to a Dominican
friar, Jean Gobi. Incipit: "Sunte augustijn secht inden boke van
den ghelove ...In der stat van alesten die nu bayona heet die van
den hove van romen gheleghen is bi dertich milen daer starf een
borgher gheheeten gwido van torno ...". Cf. Polo de Beaulieu 1994 -
(ff. 139r-151r) Northern Netherlandish translation of Henry Suso's
Horologium aeternae sapientiae. Incipit: "Vander alre overste lere
den sterfliken menschen welike is sterven te konnen [Incipit:] Want
alle menschen van naturern weten begheren ende in is O overste ende
ewighe wijsheit ..." - (ff. 152r-161v) Dutch translation of:
Speculum peccatoris / Pseudo Augustine of Hippo (cf. MPL 40:
983-992. "Speculum peccatorum dat is een speghel der sunders
[Incipit:] O Alre liefste broders want wii inden weghe deser
verdiender werlt sin ...".- (ff. 161v-168v) Treatise, containing
four statements on the contemplative life and several dicta. "Hier
beghint een seer nutte leeringhe vanden anxste godes te vercrigene
sonder weliken niement die sunden scuwen en kan [Incipit:] Die
prophete david secht in den psalmen afneyghe van quade ende doe dat
guede ...". - (ff. 170v-179v) Excerpt of a Dutch translation of
Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea. "Van ener hiligher jonfrouwen
die eufrosina heet eens rijckemans dochter ende ghenc in een mans
cloester ... [Incipit:] Een eersam man was in alexandrien die
pafnucius heet ...".
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 453):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1905514
Also described by Handschriftencensus, MMDC and A.W.
Byvanckgenootschap (database RKD, The Hague). Part of:
Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde - Bibliotheek Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century
