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
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a Dutch translation in verse of the Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, transmitted by three complete manuscripts and a few fragments
Description:
In Dutch., Script: copied by one hand in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria., Alternating red and blue paragraph marks and 2-line plain initials, with guide letters. The four verses in the neighbourhood of an initial open with a majuscule heightened with red., and Die Rose is a Dutch translation in verse of the Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, transmitted by three complete manuscripts and a few fragments. Both leaves are trimmed, f. 2 severely so at the top, with loss of text. In both leaves the outer margin has been folded (c. 10 mm.) as to form a stub for use as flyleaves in the binding of an unrecorded printed book.
