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1. Add MS 10035

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Title:
Collection of verbs from a Calepino dictionary, written in cipher
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of verbs from a Calepino dictionary, named after the Italian lexiocographer Ambrogio Calepino (b. c. 1440, d. 1510), who initially compiled it in 1502. Calepino's dictionary was reprinted many times during the 16th century. The edition this version of the te...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, Dutch, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 10043

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Title:
The first volume of a three-part glossed History Bible in Middle Dutch, covering the Old Testament books of Genesis until Tobit, with commentary from the Historia Scholastica by the French theologian Peter Comestor (d. 1179).
Scope & Content:
This is the first volume of a three-part Dutch History Bible: a bible in which the biblical text alternates with commentary from the Historia Scolastica by the French theologian Peter Comestor (d. 1179). This part contains the Old Testament books from Genesis to Tobit; its other two volumes are ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1431
Extent:

Parchment codex

3. Add MS 10044

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Title:
Jacob van Maerlant, Rijmbijbel
Scope & Content:
This manuscript features an illustrated copy of the biblical history in Dutch, the so-called Rijmbijbel, that the Dutch poet Jacob van Maerlant (c. 1220 - c. 1300) made in 1271 at the request of an anonymous friend. Despite its name, the Rijmbijbel is not directly based on the Bible, but on the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

4. Add MS 10045

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Title:
Jacob van Maerlant, Rijmbijbel
Scope & Content:
This manuscript features an illustrated copy of the biblical history in Dutch, the so-called Rijmbijbel, that the Dutch poet Jacob van Maerlant (c. 1220 - c. 1300) made in 1271 at the request of an anonymous friend. Despite its name, the Rijmbijbel is not directly based on the Bible, but on the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
1393
Extent:

Parchment codex

5. Add MS 10286

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Title:
The Middle Dutch Sydrac and Artes-Lucidarius
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the only complete Middle Dutch translation of the German Lucidarius (ff. 115r-133r). The German text is a reworking of a Latin encyclopedic work, the Elucidarium, of Honorius of Autun (b. 1080, d. 1154). The Elucidarium presents its information through a dialogue between...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle, German, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1460 - c 1500
Extent:

Paper manuscript

6. Add MS 15525

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Title:
Middle Dutch prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This illustrated Middle Dutch prayer-book contains nine cycles of 10 prayers (although the final section may contain more prayers when counting the prayers on the death and Assumption of the Virgin Mary) that commemorate the lineage, life and death of Christ and the Virgin Mary. Each set is inte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

7. Add MS 16951

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Title:
Old Testament books from a Dutch history Bible, featuring commentary from the Historia Scholastica by the French theologian Peter Comestor (d. 1179)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Old Testament books, from the Book of Genesis until the Book of Ruth, in a Dutch History Bible in which the biblical text alternates with commentary from the Historia Scholastica by the French theologian Peter Comestor (d. 1179). In the 15th century the History Bible was...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch and Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
1473-1474
Extent:

1 volume

8. Add MS 19917

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Title:
Middle Dutch Book of Hours
Scope & Content:
This Middle Dutch Book of Hours contains several prayers organised according to the canonical hours, prayers for the saints, the Virgin Mary and Christ. Several of these texts have been decorated with miniatures, foliate initials and borders by one of the so-called Masters of the Dark Eyes: the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

9. Add MS 20729

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Title:
Middle Dutch prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This Middle Dutch prayer-book presents a carefully organised programme of Psalms and prayers to God, Christ and the Virgin Mary divided over the days of the week. The prayer-book opens with a preface (ff. 2r-6r) in which the compiler explains that he has designed the prayer-book’s programme in o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

10. Add MS 20859

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Title:
Middle Dutch Prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This highly decorated Middle Dutch prayer-book was produced in the Northern Netherlands around 1500 for a patron who is depicted (a young man holding a rosary and a book) with an (unidentified) coat of arms (argent, on a chrevron azure between three hands gules, a star or) twice in the manuscrip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:

Parchment manuscript.