Content:
Contains, in Dutch: (ff. 2r-115r) Vita and passion of St. Catherine
of Alexandria. With excerpts of a translation of Jacobus de
Voragine's Legenda Aurea. - (ff. 115v-118r) Legend of St. Pasco. -
(ff. 118r-210r) Vita and passion of the 11.000 Virgins / by Hermann
Joseph von Steinfeld. - (ff. 210r-219r) Vita of St. Cunera. -
Empty: f. 119v. Note:
Origin: Possibly made in Zutphen (see Database BNM).
Date: Based on colophon: (f. 115r) "Gescreven int jaer ons heeren M
cccc ende lxii".
Script: Three scribes: ff. 2r-115r (A), 115v-117v and 194r-219r
(B), 118r-193v (C).
Binding: Medieval binding. - Leather (brown, blind-tooled) over
wooden boards. Two clasp fastenings (closing back to front, straps
and hooks renewed). - Bookblock resewn; spine renewed.
Textual: (ff. 2r-115r) "Hier begint die historie vander gebueerten
vanden leven ende vander bekeeringe sante katherinen der
joncfrouwen [Incipit:] Een groet philosophus in grieken die van
groter oetmoedicheit sinenen name hier niet gescreven en hevet
...". - - (ff. 115v-118r) "Van enen heilighen vader pasco
[Incipit:] In schichi was een heilich vader die pasco heite van lxx
jaer olt ...". - (ff. 118r-210r) "Hier beghint een epistel totten
mageden christi op die nye hestorie der elf dusent meghet die
lestent vanden hemel geopenbaert wert ... (f. 120r) Hier beghint
die nye openbaringhe der heerwart ende der passien der elf dusent
magheden". Translation of Hermann Joseph von Steinfeld's
Revelationes de undecim millibus virginum, written in 1183;
edition: Acta Sanctorum. Octobris, vol.IX: 21-22 Oct. (Brussels
1858), p. 173-201. - (ff. 210r-219r) "Hier beghijnt die passie der
heiligher joncfrouwen Sante Kuneera [Incipit:] Doemen screef ccc
jaer ende xxxii Doe wast dat ursula vergaderde ...".
Leaves missing after f. 117. - Unnumbered piece of paper with
addition in contemporary hand bound between ff. 112 and 113.
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 447):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1906661
Also described by MMDC and A.W. Byvanckgenootschap (database RKD,
The Hague). Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century