Antwerpen, Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, B 15828

Boendale and Cotthem, Brabantsche Yeesten

Between 1316 and 1350, Antwerp city clerk Jan van Boendale (c. 1280-c. 1351) wrote an extensive history of the Duchy of Brabant, to which the city belonged. After van Boendale’s death, Wein van Cotthem continued his work. This manuscript from the second half of the 15th century deviates strongly from the standard version; the chronicle no longer starts with Pepin van Landen, the founder of the Carolingian dynasty, but with the Biblical Noah. The text also contains excerpts from another chronicle by Hennen van Merchtenen (1360-after 1415). [Flandrica]

Manuscript description

Manuscript ID

mmfc-14129

Title

Boendale and Cotthem, Brabantsche Yeesten

Collection

Antwerpen, Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience

Shelfmark

Antwerpen, Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, B 15828

Catalogue number

Cod. 78 (Dermul 1939)

Manuscript Category

history

Document type

library book / reference book

References

Online catalogue record

EHC Catalogue

Digital reproduction

DAMS Antwerpen

IIIF Manifest

https://dams.antwerpen.be/iiif/GgEGcLWhgWYhabZQlxTw4LIJ/manifest

Other online data sources

NaSo (manuscripts): 51, 64
Flandrica.be (collection item)
Mirabile (manuscripts)
Handschriftencensus

Bibliography

Besamusca, Bart, Remco Sleiderink, and Geert Warnar, ‘Lodewijk van Velthem. Ter Inleiding’, in De boeken van Velthem. Auteur, oeuvre en overlevering, ed. by Bart Besamusca (Hilversum: Verloren, 2009), pp. 7–30 (p. 21, 23)
Claassens, Geert H. M., ‘Niederländische Chronistik im Mittelalter’, in Handbuch Chroniken des Mittelalters, ed. by Gerhard Wolf and Norbert H. Ott (Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter, 2016), pp. 577–608 (p. 599)
Schoenaers, Dirk, ‘“My es leet dat ics vergat”. De Vijfde Partie van Lodewijk van Velthem en het vierde boek van Jan van Boendales Brabantsche yeesten’, in De boeken van Velthem. Auteur, oeuvre en overlevering (Hilversum: Verloren, 2009), pp. 231–50 (p. 231-250; textual content)
Van Anrooij, Wim, ‘De Literaire Ambities van Hennen van Merchtenen’, Tijdschrift Voor Nederlandse Taal- En Letterkunde, 109 (1993), 291–314

Binding

UNIT ID

mmfc-14130

Leaf count

270 fol.

Book block

UNIT ID

mmfc-14128

Integrity

Unknown

Language

Dutch (main)

Origin

Date
second half 15th century

Support

Material

Parchment

Page dimensions

h: 315 mm x w: 225 mm

Decoration

Type

pen-flourished parted initials, plain initials, rubrics
Manuscript description
  1. Binding
    1. Book block