Form:
1 volume, 119 (+ 3) leaves ; 217x145 mm Content:
Contains: (f. 1r-2r) Flyleaves, with a paper fragment (Böddeken
region, 15th century), in Latin, of: Vita S. Meinulphi / Person
Gobelinus (prologue and beginning of chapter 1). - (f. 3r-113r)
Travels / John Mandeville. 'Umschreibung' in Low German of Middle
Dutch translation. -- Empty: one unnumbered leaf between ff. 2 and
3; f. 113v and eight unnumbered leaves after f. 113. Note:
Date: Based on colophon: (f. 113r) "Finitum et completum sub Anno
domini M°CCC° LXIII etcetera Amen Deo Gracias Amen".
Binding: Medieval binding, contemporary. - Leather (brown,
blind-tooled) over wooden boards. Remnants of clasp fastening
(closing back to front, hooks missing). - Spine renewed.
Textual: (f.1r) "Incipit prologus in vitam sancti maynulphi diaconi
et confessoris post ceteros novissime collectam et editam per
venerabilem dominum Gobelinum persoen decanum bijlveldiensem". -
(f. 3r) "In den namen des vaders unde ds sones unde des hilligen
gheystes Amen. Wente als dat lant van overzee dat is to wettende
dat hillige lant van geloften under allen anderen landen ...".
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294
Description (Gumbert 2009):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3161419
Description (BNM 434):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1905813
Also described by Handschriftencensus.
Bought from the books of W.J. Royaards van den Ham at the auction
held by Frederik Muller, 26 November, 1911, (cataloge suppl. p. 14,
nr. 1761). Part of:
Bibliotheca Publica Latina Ownership:
Owned by: Canons Regular of St. Meinolf, Böddeken (inscription,
stricken through on f. 3r). - Frans van Michels (f. 3v, 16th
century). - W.J. Royaards van den Ham. Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century
