Parts 1, 3: Northern Netherlands ; Egmond Abbey, 16th century, 1526 - Part 2: Low Countries, northern part ; Egmond Abbey, 16th century, 1520 - Part 4: Low Countries, northern part ; Egmond Abbey, 16th century, 1530
Language
Latin
Title
Composite manuscript, four related parts (Latin)
Catalogus monachorum ordinis sancti benedicti
Proverbia
Catalogus monachorum ordinis sancti benedicti, and other texts relating to Egmond Abbey / compiled and copied by Baldewinus de Haga Comitum, LTK 611
Content:
Part 1 contains: (f. 1r) Title page: "Catalogus monachorum ordinis
sancti benedicti"; later filled by the scribe with a table of
contents for the whole codex, in the 17th century supplemented with
numbers referring to the added foliation. - (f. 1v) Notes: Letters
of St. Benedict to St. Remigius and St. Maurus. - (f. 2r)
"Epigramma Johannis Murmelli Ruremundensis In huius operis
commendationem". - (ff. 2r- 49r) Excerpts from the works of
Johannes Trithemius about the Benedictine Order, compiled c. 1516.
- (ff. 49v-50r) De ordinatione arboris Sancti Benedicti. - (ff.
50v-52v) Papal bulls concerning the festivities of the Translatio
Sancti Benedicti. - (f. 52v) Table of contents for part 2, ff.
54r-106r. - (ff. 53r-v) Account of the opening of St. Benedict's
tomb in Monte Cassino, 1484. - Part 1 is preceded by a table of
contents drawn up by Adriaan Kluit (ff. Ir-IIIv) and notes by
Kluit, Hendrik van Wijn and MNL (f. IVv).
Part 2 contains: (ff. 54r-106r) Lifes of Dutch saints, beginning
with "Historia de tribus regibus" (54r) and ending with "De
translatione beati Stephani" (102v). - (ff. 106r-108r) "Proverbia
Wipponis ad Henricum regem Conradi filium imperatoris". - (ff.
108r-111r) Description of the relics kept at Egmond Abbey. - (ff.
112r-126r) Transcriptions of charters and legal documents
concerning donations and priviliges granted to Egmond Abbey by the
counts of Holland and others. On f. 117r a concordance of the "Hore
canonice", the "Opera passionis Christi" and "Instrumenta
recordatione". - (f. 126r) Notes on the Hagia Sophia and a ghost
story in Egmond Abbey, 1549. - (ff. 126v-128v) Latin paraphrase of
the story of Reinout van Montelbaen. - (ff. 128v-129v) Legendary
stories about cities in the Southern Netherlands.
Part 3 contains: (ff. 130r-142v) Calendar with the feasts of the
monks and saints of the Benedictine Order. - (ff. 143r-v) Notes
concerning a Vita Sancti Antidii a.o.
Part 4 contains: (ff. 144r-148r) Catalogue of the books kept at
Egmond Abbey. - (ff. 148v-149r) "Quoddam devotum factum Stephani
abbatis quinti huius monasterii". - (ff. 149r-163r) Necrologium
Egmundense. - List of the first 20 abbots of Egmond Abbey. Note:
Date (parts 1, 2 4): (f. 49r) "Per me fratrem baldewinum de
hagacomitis monachum egmondensem anno domini m° v c° xxvi°". -
(f. 106r) Per fratrem baldewinum de hagacomitis anno domini m° v
c° xx°". - (f. 129v) "Per f. baldewinum". - (f. 163r) "Per me
fratrem baldewinum de hagacomitis monachum egmondensem anno domini
m° v c° xxx°".
Script: All parts written by Baldewinus de Haga Comitum, (who also
wrote codex BPL 1818). His rubrication, rubrics and red 2-line
initials only in parts 1-3 (ff. 2r-142v). Initially empty pages
were afterwards filled with notes and small texts ff. 1r (except
for the title), 126r; in an other hand: 1v, 50v-53v, 142r-v,
148v-149r.
Foliation: In ink (17th century), with mistakes: *, 1-99, 101-109,
111-139, 193 bis, 140-143, 144-163. - Replaced by foliation in
pencil (20th century): 1-163.
Binding: Medieval binding, contemporary (original). - Leather
(black, blind tooled) over wooden boards. Remnants of two clasp
fastenings (closing back to front; straps, hooks and one catchplate
missing). - Spine renewed.
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 (BNM 454):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1905462 Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
16th century
