Leuven, KADOC Documentatie- en Onderzoekscentrum voor Religie Cultuur en Samenleving, Archief Minderbroeders (OFM) - Vlaamse Provincie Sint-Jozef, BE/942855/1649/10825

Legende der glorioser maghet Sinte Clara

Manuscript description

Manuscript ID

mmfc-13568

Title

Legende der glorioser maghet Sinte Clara

Collection

Leuven, KADOC Documentatie- en Onderzoekscentrum voor Religie Cultuur en Samenleving

Shelfmark

Leuven, KADOC Documentatie- en Onderzoekscentrum voor Religie Cultuur en Samenleving, Archief Minderbroeders (OFM) - Vlaamse Provincie Sint-Jozef, BE/942855/1649/10825

Former shelfmark

Ms 51
A 51
M2F2
Ps 284

Manuscript Category

religion

Document type

legendary

Topic

devotion
saints

References

Online catalogue record

KADOC Library Catalogue (manuscripts)

Digital reproduction

Teneo: IE3491143, IE5123036, IE11871283

IIIF Manifest

LIBIS IIIF Manifests: IE3491143, IE5123036, IE11871283

Other online data sources

NaSo (manuscripts)
BNM-I (manuscripts)

Binding

UNIT ID

mmfc-13567

Leaf count

iv + 40 fol. + ii

Dicta probatoria

secundo folio (fol. 2r.) : met haren heilighen leve
final leaf (fol. 40r) : -ken der heiligher maghet

Endpapers

paper

Notes

Layout
Not all the endpapers in the binding are the contemporary ones. The binding also contains modern endpapers.

Binding

Binding type

Cardboard boards

Date

Remnants of earlier binding

Cover material

Leather, Paper

Decoration

Gold tooling, Label on spine

Dimensions

h: 277 mm x w: 203 mm x d: 15 mm

Book block

UNIT ID

mmfc-13566

Page range

fol. 1r-40r

Form

Codex

Integrity

Complete

Language

Middle Dutch (main)
Latin (other)

Folding format

Quarto

Quire markings

Catchwords

Origin

Alternative dating
1492
Date
second half 15th century - first quarter 16th century (Elize Van Opstal)
Evidence
Script and description in Narrative Sources. In his critical edition of the manuscript Ludo Jongen (1998) dates the manuscriot between 1500 and 1520.
Place
Brabant (possibly), Low Countries (Elize Van Opstal)
Evidence
The text is written in Middle Dutch.
Colophon
(Latin)

Support

Material

Paper

Number of leaves

40

Foliation

Modern foliation

Page dimensions

h: 269 mm x w: 194 mm (fol. 1r)

Leave thickness

fol. 1r, 10 leaves (2,25 mm)
fol. 1r, 10 leaves (3,21 mm)

Watermarks

Reference leaf
fol. 28
Description
Mark without shield consisting in two lines

Layout

Section
fol. 1r-40r (fol. 13r)
Columns
2
Lines
37; lines ruled: 38 (written below top line)
Layout formula
| T | | T |
Ruling
Full ruling, Lead-point ruling
Prickings
prickings visible in outer margin
Text dimensions
h: 206 mm x w: 135 mm
Margins
Top margin: 25 mm, inner margin: 24 mm
Intercolumnar space
10 mm

Writing

Script

Northern gothica textualis (Northern Gothica Textualis Formata)

Number of hands

1

Decoration

Type

plain initials, rubrics red, rubrics underlined, paraphs, line fillers, colour stroking, rubrics, illuminated

1. Thomas de Celano, Legenda sanctae Clarae virginis, Middle Dutch translation

UNIT ID

mmfc-52933

Page range

fol. 1r-40r

Title

Thomas de Celano, Legenda sanctae Clarae virginis, Middle Dutch translation

Legenda sanctae Clarae virginis

Contributors

Thomas de Celano (author)

Language

Middle Dutch (main)
Latin

Rubric

Hier begint die legende der glorioser maghet Sinte Clara ende van die bevelinghe ende lovinge haerre oerden ende die verspreyenghen der oerden ende van haer heilighe maechden (fol. 1r)

Incipit

Ortus conclusus soror mea sponsa (fol. 1r)

Explicit

(fol. 40r)
Note: Sinte Claren te ontfanghen in Sijn eewighe tabernaculen. Amen.

Keywords

Genre

exemplum
hagiography
Manuscript description
  1. Binding
    1. Book block
      1. 1. Thomas de Celano, Legenda sanctae Clarae virginis, Middle Dutch translation