Parts 1-5: Low Countries, northern part ; Utrecht (Sticht; and: city?), 15th century, second half
Language
Dutch
Latin
Title
Composite manuscript, five parts (Dutch)
Devotieboek
Devotional texts
Rapiarium
Van der passien ons heren Jhesu Christi
Quadragesimale de evangelio aeterno
De sanctissima passione et mysteriis crucis
Dicta partum
Jhesus collacien
De reverentia et obedientia prelatorum
Boec vande X geboden
Super modo vivendi
Vander hemelscher glorien
Van drien staten eens bekeerden menschen
1. (ff. 1-141) Van der passien ons heren Jhesu Cristi / Bernardinus of Siena, and other text(s). - 2. (ff. 142-165) De reverentia et obedientia prelatorum, and other text(s). - And other part(s), LTK 224
Content:
Part 1 contains: (ff. 1*r-2*v) Devotional poem, inc. "Die is
gebonden / Mit swaren sonden ...". - (ff. 1r-31v) Van der passien
ons heren jhesu christi / Bernardino of Siena. - (ff. 32r-67v)
Other passion mediations translated and compiled from Bernardino of
Siena. - (ff. 68r-76v) Dicta patrum. - (ff. 77r-81r) Exhortations
to use set prayers, with exemplum (78v-79r). - (ff. 81r-87r) Jhesus
collacien. Incomplete (1,3 and 5). - (ff. 87r-107v) Various short
devotional texts. - (ff. 107v-108v) Dicta patrum. - (ff. 109r-111v)
Exempla. - (ff. 111v-141v) Various devotional texts and
prayers.
Part 2 contains: (ff. 142r-155v) De reverencia et obediencia
prelatorum (Dutch). - (ff. 156r-160v) Boec van de X geboden.
Excerpt. - (ff. 161r-165v) Super modo vivendi (Dutch) / Gerard
Zerbolt of Zutphen. Excerpt (chapter 7).
Part 3 contains: (ff. 166r-172v) Short treatise on the three
anointments of king David. With prayers. - (ff. 172v-181v) Legend
of Salomon and the queen of Sheba.
Part 4 contains, in Dutch: (ff. 182r-183r) Exemplum of two friars
minor visiting Salomon on the Tower of Babel. - Empty: f. 183v.
Part 5 contains: (ff. 184r- 193v) Vander hemelscher glorien. - (ff.
194r-213r) Van drien staten eens bekeerden menschen / Hendrik
Mande. Incomplete (first part). - Empty: f. 213v. Note:
Origin: Based on the fly-leaves: these are fragments of copies of
imperial charters concerning Utrecht.
Binding: Medieval binding, contemporary. - Leather (brown,
blind-tooled, worn) over wooden boards. Decorated with panel stamp
on both sides (Madonna), with text: "Maria
Textual: (ff. 1r-31v) "Hier beghint sommighe guede punte dat die
heilighe vader Bernardinus scrivet vander passien ons heren jhesu
christi [Incipit:] Die prophete seit inden persoen ons lieven heren
jhesu chrisi Ic bin gehdruket ende ghenedert alte seer ic brymmede
van suchten mijns herten. Here alle mine begherte is voer di Op
dese woerde des propheten scrivet die heilighe bernardinus van der
passien ons heren ende deelt sie in drien delen ...". Compilation
of translated extracts from De sanctissima passione et mysteriis
crucis = Sermo 56 from the collection: Quadragesimale de Evangelio
Aeterno / Bernardino of Siena. - (ff. 37r-40r) Compilation of
translated extracts from Bernardino's Sermo 56, part 3. - (ff.
40r-55r) Translation of Bernardino's Sermo 56, part 1. - (ff.
55r-62r) Busken van mirren. - (ff. 142r-155v) Treatise in Dutch,
with title and marginalia in Latin. Incipit: "Also als sunte
bernaert seeght in eenen sermone vander toecoemst ons lieven heren
so zijn wi onse oversten of onsen prelaten sculdich twe dingen dat
is onderdanicheit und ere ...". - (ff. 161r-165v)
Translation/adaptation in Dutch.
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 444):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1905452
Also described by Handschriftencensus and MMDC. Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century
