Content:
Contains: (ff. 1r-61v) Die corniken des tijts = Wereldkroniek /
Heraut Beyeren (Claes Heynensoon). - (ff. 61v-73v) Chronicle of the
popes, up to 1471. - (ff. 74r-77v) Chronicle of the bishops of
Utrecht, up to 1475. - (ff. 78r-84r) Chronicle of the counts of
Holland (up to 1467). - (ff. 85r-86v) De ordinancien van den
etaten. - (ff. 86v-91v) Coronike van Vrieslant (up to 1432). - (ff.
91v-94v) Sneker kroniekje (up to 1464). Note:
Date: Based on colophon: (f. 94v) "Dit boeck ghescreven ende gheend
by my Scheen wissen zoen van kercwerff den Tienden dach in Julio
maent inden zomer Anno lxxvi°".
Origin: Under discussion. Gumbert 1988 suggests Haarlem, BNM
suggests Gouda. Byvanck-database suggests South-Holland, based on
the decoration.
Binding: Medieval binding, contemporary (Haarlem?). - Leather
(brown, blind-tooled) over wooden boards. Two clasp fastenings
(closing back to front). - According to Verheyen 1952, probably
bound in Haarlem.
Textual: (ff. 1r-61v) Author is Claes Heynensoon, heraut Gelre,
since 1402/03 heraut Beyeren; cf. Van Anrooij 1990 (heraut Gelre)
and Verbij-Schillings 1995 (heraut Beyeren). - (ff. 78r-84r)
Incomplete: the text ends at the middle of a sentence.
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (Geel 1852):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:290750
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 430):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1906365
Also described by MMDC and A.W. Byvanckgenootschap (database RKD,
The Hague). Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century