Part 1: Low Countries, southern part ; Maastricht, 15th century, c. 1470 - Part 2: Low Countries, southern part ; Maastricht, 15th century, third quarter
Language
Dutch
Latin
Title
Composite manuscript, two parts (Dutch, Latin)
Sint Servaes legende
Legende van St. Servaas
Leven van Sint Servaas
De praerogativis sacerdotum
Vita et miracula sanctae Genovefa virginis
S. Genovefe Vita
Miraculum ardentium
Vita sancti Servatii
Vita of St. Servatius
1. (ff. 1-108) Sint Servaes legende / Hendrik van Veldeke. - 2. (ff. 109-195) De prerogativis sacerdotum, and other text(s), BPL 1215
Content:
Part 1 contains: (ff. 1r-106v) Sint Servaes legende / Hendrik van
Veldeke.
Part 2 contains: (ff. 109r-120v) De praerogativis sacerdotum. -
(ff. 121r-152v) Vita et miracula sanctae Genovefae virginis. - (ff.
152v-193v) Vita sancti Servatii / Jocundus. - Empty: ff. 194r-202v,
except for two pages with owner inscriptions Note:
Date: Based on the watermarks.
Script: Part 1 copied by the Servaes scribe. - (part 2) ff. 153-193
written in a different hand.
Binding: Post-medieval binding. - Old boards and part of
blind-tooled covering kept separately.
Textual: (f. 1r-106v) "Dat prologus van sint servaes legende
[incipit:] IN gode namen ende in sijnen vrede Soe beghennen wij
deser reden ...". - (ff. 109r-120v) Incipit: "Quasi stella matutina
in medio nebule, id est peccatorum, proprietates huius stelle
matutine possunt referri ad quemlibet sacerdotem...". - (ff.
121r-152v) Vita and miracles of St. Genovefa of Brabant. Incipit:
"Tempore quidem quo ad describendam beate genovefe virginis vitam
accessi, opere precium duxi ut...". - (ff. 152v-193v) Incipit: "Ad
illuminandum humanum genus...".
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 433):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1906553
Also described by Handschriftencensus and MMDC. Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century