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Language Dutch, Middle Digitised Content Platform BL Digitised Manuscripts (2024-) Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add Ch 28654

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Add Ch 28654
Title:
Arbitration between Elizabeth of Katzenelenbogen, abbess of St Mary’s in the Capitol in Cologne, and Herman of Hachinberch, canon of the same church
Scope & Content:
Notarial copy of an arbitration between Elizabeth of Katzenelenbogen, abbess of St Mary’s in the Capitol in Cologne, and Herman of Hachinberch, canon of the same church; dated 30 January 1352, at vespers, with the notary mark and notarial certificate of Rurgerus de Hillsheynr, imperial notary of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
[30 Jan 1352]
Extent:
1 leaf

2. Add MS 11390

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Title:
Jacob van Maerlant, Der naturen bloeme
Scope & Content:
The manuscript features one of the eleven extant copies of the Middle Dutch Der naturen bloeme (The Flower of Nature): a natural encyclopedia and bestiary in verse, divided into thirteen books. Der naturen bloeme was written around 1270 by the Flemish poet Jacob van Maerlant (b. c. 1200, d. c. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
c 1300 - c 1325
Extent:

Parchment codex

3. Add MS 14042

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Add MS 14042
Title:
Middle Dutch prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This Middle Dutch prayer-book contains a large section of rosaries and prayers dedicated to the Virgin Mary (ff. 5r-245v), followed by prayers dedicated to Christ and saints, and prayers for Communion. The manuscript contains a large number of pasted and sewn in coloured woodcuts and engravings....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
1517-1523
Extent:

1 volume

4. 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

5. Harley MS 3828

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3828
Title:
Middle Dutch prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This composite prayer-book with Middle Dutch and Latin texts consists of four distinct parts: two parts (ff. 1r-12v, and ff. 17r-75v) were made in Flanders (probably Bruges) in the 1440s; and two others (ff. 13r-16v, and ff. 76r-208r) in the Netherlands (probably North Brabant) in the 2nd half o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1440-c 1500
Extent:
1 volume