Manuscript fragment, on parchment, in Gothic bookhand, produced in the Netherlands during the fourteenth century. Der Leken Spieghel is a Middle Dutch rhymed Biblical epic, composed between 1325 and 1330. This leaf, a binding fragment, contains a portion of Book II which deals with the lineage of Joseph and Mary
Description:
Jan van Boendale is also called Jan Decker and Jan de Clerc., In Middle Dutch., and Illuminated miniatures at chapter headings.
Subject (Name):
van Boendale, Jan, d. 1365.
Subject (Topic):
History of Biblical events, Poetry, and Dutch poetry
