Part 1: Low Countries, northern part (west), 15th/16th century - Parts 2 and 4: Low Countries, northern part (west), 15th century - Part 3: Low Countries, northern part (west), 16th century - Part 5: Low Countries, northern part (west), 15th/16th century, c. 1500 - Flyleaves: Low Countries, northern part ; Holland (south), 15th century, first half
Language
Dutch
Title
Composite manuscript, five parts (Dutch)
Devotional miscellany
Sermons
Meditations
Prayers
Pro custodienta humilitate et cognitione humanae fragilitatis
Soliloquia animae ad Deum
Disticha Catonis
Dietsche Catoen
1. (ff. 1-73) Sermons, meditations and prayers. - 2. (ff. 74-158) Soliloquia animae ad Deum (translation). - And other part(s), LTK 221
Content:
Part 1 contains: (ff. 1r-73r) Sermons, meditations and prayers. -
Empty: f. 1*r-v, 68*r-68**v, 73v-73*v.
Part 2 contains: (ff. 74r-158v) Soliloquia animae ad Deum /
Pseudo-Augustine of Hippo. Translation in Dutch.
Part 3 contains: (ff. 159r-174v) Prayers and devotional
exercises.
Part 4 contains: (ff. 175r-185v) Hours of the Virgin. - (ff.
186r-205v) Life of the Virgin Mary. - Empty: f. 206v.
Part 5 contains: (ff. 207r-209v) Prayers. - Empty: ff. 209v-209*v,
209**r-v (former back pastedown).
Maculature. Flyleaves (ff. 1, 210) contain text from: Dietsche
Catoen. Fragment. Note:
Decoration: Unfinished. With space reserved for initials.
Binding: Medieval binding, contemporary (original). - Medieval
binding, contemporary (original). - Leather (brown, blind-tooled)
over wooden boards. Decorated with panel stamp on both sides
(Madonna with child sitting on crescent moon); text: "Mulier
Textual: Devotional miscellany. - (ff. 1r-73v) Contains among
others a Dutch translation of Pro custodienta humilitate et
cognitione humanae fragilitatis. - (ff 74r-158v) Dutch translation.
- (flyleaves) Dutch adaptation of the Disticha Catonis.
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 443):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1905701
Also described by Handschriftencensus and MMDC. Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century
16th century