Content:
Devotional miscellany, rapiarium style. Contains, in Dutch, among
others (ff. 1r-164r): Excerpts of texts by Gerlach Peters
(Soliloquium: 1r-2r; Tweede Brief: 2r-10v; Eerste Brief:
136v-149r), Mechtild von Hackeborn (Liber specialis gratiae:
20v-24r, 24r-26v), Thomas a Kempis (De imitatione Christi, Jan van
Ruusbroec (Van den gheestelike tabernakel: 123v-127r); dicta,
prayers, sermons etc. by (pseudo-) church fathers and other
ecclesiastical writers. - Empty: f. 164v. - A complete analysis of
the contents in Kors 1991. Note:
Origin: Based on the style of the decoration (see Byvanck
database).
Date: According to Kors 1991.
Binding: Medieval binding, contemporary. - Leather (black,
blind-tooled, worn) over wooden boards with bevelled edges. Traces
of two clasp fastenings (closing back to front). - Spine renewed,
with old covering pasted on top.- Fragments from a 14th-century
French songbook with polyphonic music notation, serving as
flyleaves, are kept separately as LTK 342 A.
Textual: (f. 1r-10v) "Hier beghini een boec van menigherhande
devote leerynghen ghenomen uut vele boeken". - (ff. 1r-2r) Excerpt
from Soliloquium / Gerlach Peters (ch. 20 of the Dutch
translation). Incipit: "Alsoe vele spreket die waerheit moghestu mi
volghen. Alstu di selven uut gaeste Daer om Merct alsoe vele alstu
mogheste. dijn uutwendighe werkinghe en laet niet of ...". - (ff.
2r-10v) Chapters 1-2 and 4-8 of Gerlach Peters' Tweede Brief.
Incipit: "Eenen rechten inwendighen mensche en is gheen tijt te
cort hem te verenighen mit sinen ghemynden ...". - (ff. 20v-24r)
Excerpt from book 3 of the Liber specialis gratiae / Mechtild van
Hackeborn. Incipit: "Op een tijt Als een joncfrouwe in haren
ghebede was Soe wart si denckende Hoe onse lieve vrouwe maria, ende
ander joncfrouwen god hadden gheoffert haer reynicheit Ende die
martelaren haer costelic bloet Ende si was seer droevich dat si
niet en hadde dat si god mochte offeren ...". - (ff. 24r-26v,
26v-30r) Eerste Brief, from the Dutch translation of Mechild von
Hackeborn's Liber specialis gratiae. Incipit: "O Ghetrouwe siele
ende god minnende. Merket naerstelic ende mynlic die weet die hevet
ghegheven die keyserlike jonghelinc jhesus cristus die sone der
vaderliker goedertierenheit Als doe hi di vercoes tot sijnre bruut
...". - (ff. 74v-75v) Chapter 9 of Gerlach Peters' Tweede Brief. -
(ff. 136v-149r) Eerste Brief / Gerlach Peters, in the adapted
version.
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 452):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1906558
Also described by Handschriftencensus, MMDC and A.W.
Byvanckgenootschap (database RKD, The Hague). Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century
