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1. Egerton MS 675

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 675
Title:
Collection of sermons in Middle Dutch
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of sermons, principally by the Burgundian abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (b. 1090, d. 1153), as well as Nicholas of Clairvaux (fl. 1145/6-1176/8), Guerric of Igny (b. c. 1070/80, d. 1157) and Fulgentius of Ruspe (b. 462/467, d. 527/533), translated from the orig...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1461
Extent:
1 volume

2. Egerton MS 677

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 677
Title:
Middle Dutch prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This early fifteenth-century Middle Dutch prayer-book was owned by the canonesses regular of St Maria, Notre-Dame ter Rosen geplant in Jericho near Brussels: The main scribe of the manuscript, according to Patricia Stoop, also copied part of the prayer-book now Brussels, Koninklijke Bibliotheek,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
c 1430
Extent:

Parchment manuscript

3. Egerton MS 2323

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2323
Title:
Fragments of Middle Dutch verse: the Nevelingenlied and Van den bere Wisselau
Scope & Content:
Three fragments, dated to the second half of the thirteenth century or first half of the fourteenth century, joined together with a paper booklet during the nineteenth century. The first two fragments are the only witnesses of the otherwise lost Middle Dutch Nevelingenlied, probably translated f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
c 1250 - c 1350
Extent:

4 leaves

4. Egerton MS 2903

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2903
Title:
Middle Dutch prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This Middle Dutch prayer-book contains a Psalter dedicated to the Virgin Mary, other Marian prayers and long meditations on the Passion. The fact that the calendar includes a feast for St Jeroen van Noordwijk suggests that the prayerbook may have been produced in South or North Holland: St Jeroe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

5. Egerton MS 2904

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2904
Title:
Middle Dutch prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This late-fifteenth-century Middle Dutch prayer-book may be a previously unidentified manuscript from Selwerd, a large and influential Benedictine monastery in the northernmost part of the Netherlands. The prominent position of St Pontianus of Spoleto, a patron saint of Utrecht, and the presence...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

Paper codex