Form:
1 volume, 12 leaves ; 221x144 mm Content:
Contains, in Low German: (ff. 1r-12v) Seven exempla copied from Der
Vaderboec (book 4). Note:
Originally part of the same codex as Giessen UB, Hs. 642a
(fragment, 36 + I ff.), Hs. 790b (fragment, 21 ff.) and Hs. 816a
(fragment, 12 ff.); cf. Handschriftencensus and Seelbach 2007.
Origin: Based on the dialect.
Date: According to Seelbach 2007.
Collation: In octavo.
Binding: Post-medieval binding.
Textual: 'Umschreibung' in Low German (Westfälisch) of Der
Vaderboec, a Dutch translation of the Historia monachorum in
Aegypto, which is part of the Vitae Patrum (or Vitas Patrum), a
collection of the vita of hermits. - (f. 1r) Incipit: "Eyn broder
vragede eynen olden vader unde seghede: Vader was sal ick doen
wente myne gedancken en latet my nicht eyne ure lanck yn myner
cellen sytten ...". The Giessen fragments also contain (a.o.)
exempla from Der Vaderboec.
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
Also described by Handschriftencensus, MMDC.
Long-term loan from the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde.
Donated to MNL by Joannes Tiberius Bodel Nijenhuis in 1851,
according to a note on f. 1*v ('J.T. B.N.') and Te Winkel 1853.
Former MNL shelfmark: 7567. Part of:
Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde - Bibliotheek Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century
