Content:
Part 1 (miscellany) contains, all in Dutch: (ff. 1r-19v) "Een
geestlick boecxken om hem selven uut te gaen ende af te sterven"
(title added in later hand). Beginning of the text missing. - (ff.
19v-24v) Dicta. - (ff. 25r-28r, 28r-37r) Two sermons. - (ff.
37r-38r) Epistula ad fratres de Monte Dei / Guillaume de
Saint-Thierry. Paraphrase, here attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux.
- (ff. 38r-40v) Vanden vier oefeninghen / Dirk van Herxen. Excerpt.
- (ff. 40v-60v) Een epistel van inwendighe oefenynghe des levens
ende der passien ons heren Jhesu Christi. - (f. 60v) Monastic vow
of tertiary Katherina Jan hamers dochter. - (ff. 61r-69r) "Dit is
vander bevindingen des wijnstocks". Excerpt from Vitis mystica /
Bonaventure. Extended version. - (ff. 69v-82r) Soliloquium seu
meditationes / Eckbert von Schönau. Translation. - (ff. 82r-86v)
"Hier beghint een capittel gescreven vander ontfermherticheit".
Passion meditation. - (ff. 86v-88r) Prayer. - (ff. 88r-92v) "Dit is
vander mynnen gods ons lieven brudegom". Passion meditation. - (ff.
93r-106r) Spieghel der sondaers. - (ff. 106r-106v) "Hier beghint
een zeer mynlijc ende merkelijc ende goede oeffeninghe voer
gheestelike menschen". Meditation; end of text missing.
Part 2 contains, all in Dutch: (ff. 1*r-72*r) "Hoe die mensche sal
leeren sterven". [Excerpt from: Horologium aeternae sapientiae /
Henry Suso]. - (ff. 72*r-77*r) "Hier na volch noch een maniere om
te leeren sterven". Excerpt from Henry Suso's Horologium aeternae
sapientiae? - (ff. 77*r-79*v) "Vander doot". Excerpt from Henry
Suso's Horologium aeternae sapientiae? - (ff. 79*v-80*v) 'Mensch
wes op dijn hoede altoes'. Extended version. Note:
Foliation: 1-106 in ink (18th century), 1-80 in pencil (20th
century), here indicated as 1*-80*.
Collation: (part 1) 5VI (1-60); VI-2 (,61-70), 3VI (71-106). Leaves
missing before f. 1. - (part 2) 10IV (1*-80*).
Layout: Part 1 can be divided in three closely related units: (ff.
1-24) 25 lines on 95x65/70 mm. - (ff. 25-60) 22 lines on
90/95x65/70 mm. - (ff. 61-106) 20 lines on 90/60-65 mm.
Script: Part 1: littera hybrida, several hands, unstable script. -
Part 2: littera textualis, one hand.
Decoration: Red initials, versals rubrics. - Part 1: 5-line initial
with purple pen-flourishes, trimmed at top (61r); 4-line initials.
(69v), 3-line initials (38r, 86v, 93r, 106v), 2-line initials. -
Part 2: 6-line initial (25*v), 4-line initials (1*r, 52v, 65r),
3-line initials (24v, 35r, 53v, 66v, 72r), 2-line initials.
Binding: Post-medieval binding (before 1744). - Parchment over
pasteboard. With spine text: "Verscheiden / Tractaten / M.S.". Blue
spickled edges.
Textual: (f. 37r) Incipit: "Sunte bernaert die scrijft totten
brueders vanden berghe gods Alle warent grote ende wonderlike
godlike miraculen. die die here in ertrijc hevet ghedaen nochtan
heeft een boven al gheschenen. ende dat alle die ander verlicht
...". - (f. 60v) Monastic vow: "Ic suster katherina Jan hamers
dochter ghelove hoechlijc ende openbaerlijc na inhouden onsen
previlegien Ewighe reynicheit myns lichaems Int ghemeyn te leven
sonder eyghenscap Ende ghehoersamheit mynnen menister ter tijt
sijnde Ende ghenoch te doen van mynen ghebreken Die ic teghen die
dorde reghel des h. vaders santi francisci ende statuten ons
ghemeyns capittels doen mocht na ons visenteerders ende menysters
goetduncken als ic daer toe vermaent werde".
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (BNM 460):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1906104 Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century
