Content:
Contains: (ff.1-156) Spieghel der volcomenheit / Hendrik Herp. -
(ff. 157r-180v) Een corte simpel leere. With table of contents (f.
157r-v) - (ff. 181v-185r) Prayers to the Virgin Mary. - (ff.
185v-187v) Een goede leeringhe. - (f. 188v) Later added notes. -
Empty: four uncounted leaves between f. 156 and 157, f. 188r. Note:
Origin: Based on the decoration (see Byvanck database).
Date: Based the final verses of the poem, in which "lxii" was
written on erasure: (f. 180v) "Daer dit boec uut ghescreven is /
Dies syt seker ende ghewijs / Dat wert ghedicht ende ghemaect Doen
den harinc was dorre ende qualic gheraect / Dat was int jaer ons
heren / Dusent CCCC ende Ixii meere / Bidt voer diet becoste ende
screef / Want daer groot ghebrect noch bleef". Did the scribe
replace the creation date of the poem by that of his copy?.
Decoration: Unfinished; spaces provided for decoration.
Binding: Medieval binding, contemporary. - Leather (brown,
blind-tooled) over wooden boards. Two clasp fastenings (closing
back to front, renewed). - Bookblock resewn, spine renewed.
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1937):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491717
Description (BNM 456):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1906098
Also described by MMDC, Handschriftencensus and A.W.
Byvanckgenootschap (database RKD, The Hague). Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century