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Contains: (f. 1v) Table of contents. - (ff. 2r-118r) Sinte Jheronymus sterfboeck. - (ff. 119r-139r) Historia de spiritu Guidonis (Dutch) / John Gobi. - (ff. 139r-151r) Oerloy der ewigher wijsheit / Henry Suso. Excerpt (book 2, chapter 2). - (ff. 152r-161v) Speghel der sunders / Pseudo-Augustine of Hippo. - (ff. 161v-170v) Van den anxt ende vander mynnen gods. - (ff. 170v-179v) Vita of St. Euphrosyna / Jacobus de Voragine. - (ff. 179v-182v) Four exempla of the Virgin Mary, including a translation of Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum, III, 65. - Empty: ff. 1r (except for ownership note), 151v.
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Augustine
Caesarius (ca. 1180-1245)
Cyril
Eusebius
Gobi, Jean (1323-1350 fl)
Jacbus (ca. 1226-1298)
Suso, Henricus (ca. 1295-1366)
Johan
Alijt.
Voorst, Jan Jacob van (1791-1869)
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Origin: Based on the dialect.
Date and script: Based on colophon: (f. 183r) "Inden jaeren ons heren dusent vier hondert ende achtentwintich is dit boeck ghescreven vermids heren Johanne van wederden preister uutgheseget een deel wat van den lesten Ende hevet dit van mynnen ghescreven. begherende mede deelachtich te werden alder vruchten die yemant lesende uut desen boke vercrighen mach ende datmen voer em bidden wille onsen heren. Voertmer datmen mit aller vlite dit boeck waer. wanttet crane van stove is. ende men niet lichtelike uuten hues en leene in werliker lude hande. went si quelicke pleghen die boeke te waren".
Script: Two scribes: ff. 2r-161v (A), 1v and 162r-183r (B). - A is Johan van Wederden, based on colophon (f. 183r).
Decoration: Unfinished. With space provided for initials.
Binding: Medieval binding, contemporary. - Leather (brown, blind-tooled) over wooden boards. Old (medieval?) replacement of spine covering fixed with iron nails (2x5), three and two missing). Clasp fastenings (closing back to front, straps and hooks missing). Traces of fixed page markers (tabs) on bookblock fore edge.
Textual: (ff. 2r-118r) Dutch translations of Pseudo-Eusebius's letter to Damasus and Theodosius on Jerome's death (Epistula de morte Hieronymi), Pseudo-Augustine of Hippo's letter to Cyril on the magnificence of Jerome (Epistola de magnificentiis beati Hieronymi) and Pseudo-Cyril's letter to Augustine of Hippo on the miracles of Jerome (Epistula de miraculis Hieronymi). Incipit: "Hij beghint eusebius epistole van sunte jheronimus dode ... [Incipit:] Enen eersamen vader damasio bisscop portuensi ...". - (ff. 119r-139r) Dutch translation of Latin prose story about Guy d'Alet whose ghost describes his experience in purgatory to a Dominican friar, Jean Gobi. Incipit: "Sunte augustijn secht inden boke van den ghelove ...In der stat van alesten die nu bayona heet die van den hove van romen gheleghen is bi dertich milen daer starf een borgher gheheeten gwido van torno ...". Cf. Polo de Beaulieu 1994 - (ff. 139r-151r) Northern Netherlandish translation of Henry Suso's Horologium aeternae sapientiae. Incipit: "Vander alre overste lere den sterfliken menschen welike is sterven te konnen [Incipit:] Want alle menschen van naturern weten begheren ende in is O overste ende ewighe wijsheit ..." - (ff. 152r-161v) Dutch translation of: Speculum peccatoris / Pseudo Augustine of Hippo (cf. MPL 40: 983-992. "Speculum peccatorum dat is een speghel der sunders [Incipit:] O Alre liefste broders want wii inden weghe deser verdiender werlt sin ...".- (ff. 161v-168v) Treatise, containing four statements on the contemplative life and several dicta. "Hier beghint een seer nutte leeringhe vanden anxste godes te vercrigene sonder weliken niement die sunden scuwen en kan [Incipit:] Die prophete david secht in den psalmen afneyghe van quade ende doe dat guede ...". - (ff. 170v-179v) Excerpt of a Dutch translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea. "Van ener hiligher jonfrouwen die eufrosina heet eens rijckemans dochter ende ghenc in een mans cloester ... [Incipit:] Een eersam man was in alexandrien die pafnucius heet ...".
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 (Lieftinck 1948): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:489936
Description (BNM 453): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1905514
Also described by Handschriftencensus, MMDC and A.W. Byvanckgenootschap (database RKD, The Hague).
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