Form:
1 volume, 235 leaves : pen-flourished initials ; 147x99 mm Content:
Contains, in Dutch: (ff. 1r-157r) Sinte Jheronymus sterfboeck.
Letter to Damasus and Theodosius on Jerome's death by
Pseudo-Eusebius, the letter to Cyril on the magnificence of Jerome
by Pseudo-Augustine of Hippo, and the letter to Augustine of Hippo
on the miracles of Jerome by Pseudo-Cyril. - (ff. 157v-164v) Sinte
Jheronimus leven / Jacobus de Voragine. Excerpt from his Legenda
Aurea. - (ff. 165r-225r) Die epistel den novicien ende den jonghen
gheesteliken personen te leren in een geestelic leven / Hendrik van
Coesvelt. Note:
Binding: Medieval binding, contemporary. - Leather (blind-tooled)
over wooden boards. Two clasp fastenings (one strap and hook
missing).
Textual: (ff. 1r-157r) Translation from Latin into Dutch of three
letters of a pseudo-correspondence on Jerome: Epistola de morte
gloriosissimi Hieronymi / Pseudo-Eusebius; Epistola de
magnificentiis beati Hieronymi / Pseudo-Augustine; Epistola de
miraculis Hieronymi / Pseudo-Cyril. Known in Dutch as: Sinte
Jheronymus sterfboeck. - "Hier beghint die epistel des heilighen
mans eusebii tot damasium biscop portuensem ende tot theodosium
senatoer van romen vander doot des heilighen confessoers ende
lerers jheronimi" (1r); "Hier na volghet die epistel die sinte
augustinus sende sinte cyrillus den bischop van jherusalem vander
groetheit des heilighen priesters jheronimus" (78v); "Hier nae
volghet die epistel die sinte cyrillus die bischop toe jherusalem
was sende sinte augustinus den hoghen lerer vanden miraculen sinte
jheronimus des heilighen lerers ende priesters" (92v). - (ff.
157v-164v) Dutch translation of an excerpt on Jerome from Jacobus
de Voragine's Legenda aurea; Southern-Netherlandish translation by
the Bible Translator of 1360 (Petrus Naghel). - (ff. 165r-225r)
Dutch translation of Hendrik van Coesvelt's Epistola de
instructione noviciorum.
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (Gumbert 2009):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3161419
Description (BNM 436):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1906588
Also described by Handschriftencensus, MMDC and A.W.
Byvanckgenootschap (database RKD, The Hague).
Purchased at an auction held by B.M. Israel (Arnhem) in 1940. Part of:
Bibliotheca Publica Latina Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century
