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Egerton MS 675
- Record Id:
- 032-001983727
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001983727
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000053.0x000329
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165163806.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 675
- Title:
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Collection of sermons in Middle Dutch
- Scope & Content:
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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 original Latin into Middle Dutch.
The colophons at the end of the collection (f. 200v) state that it was written in 1461 by Machtelt Gherijtsdochter. An additional inscription (f. 204r) indicates that the volume belonged to the canonesses regular of St Agnes in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
Contents:
ff. 1r-2r: A table of contents, written in Middle Dutch.
ff. 2v-200v: A collection of sermons by Bernard of Clairvaux (ff. 2v-95v, 105v-117r, 121v-126v, 139r-200v), Nicholas of Clairvaux (ff. 95v-105v, 126v-134r), Guerric of Igny (ff. 117r-121r) and Fulgentius of Ruspe (ff. 134r-139r), translated from Latin into Middle Dutch.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 205r-v: A parchment leaf used as a flyleaf, containing a set of Latin prayers, beginning, '[D]eus qui errantibus ut in viam possint redire iusticiae', written in the late 14th or early 15th century.
ff. 201r-203v are ruled but unwritten; f. 204v is blank.
Decoration:
1 large (4-line) puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in blue and red, developing a three-sided border (f. 3r).
7 large (3-line) initials in blue, with reserved designs, and red pen-flourishing (ff. 7r, 21r, 53r, 134r, 139r, 150r, 180r).
Large (2-line) plain red initials. Capitals highlighted in red. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001983727
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001983727
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165163806.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Dutch, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1461
- End Date:
- 1461
- Date Range:
- 1461
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper; parchment (ff. 204-205 only).
Watermark: A unicorn.
Dimensions: 205 x 145 mm (text space: 140 x 90 mm, written in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 205 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end); ff. 201-203 are paper leaves that originally served as flyleaves; f. 204 is a medieval parchment leaf that originally served as a flyleaf; f. 205 is a parchment leaf from a 15th-century manuscript that has been reused as a flyleaf for this manuscript.
Collation: Indicated by leaf signatures and catchwords.
Script: Gothic cursive, written by Machtelt Gherijtsdochter.
Binding: Pre-1600. Blind-tooled brown leather over wooden boards, with hornplate label framed by metalwork to upper board, inscribed, 'Bernardus sermoene[n] van sinte andries.'; spine rebacked; with the Bridgewater arms gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers; impressions of two metal clasps, now lacking.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Delft, The Netherlands.
Provenance:
Copied by Machtelt Gherijtsdochter, probably a canoness regular of St Agnes in Delft, in 1461, according to the colophon: 'Dit booc heeft gescreven suster Machtelt Gherijts dochter tot eenre memorie ende ic bidde u om gods willen dat ghi voer mi wilt lesen een ave maria ende als ic doot ben een ave maria mit requiem', and 'Dit booc is gescreven int iaer ons heren MCCCC ende lxi op sinte leonaerdus dach gheeyndet' (f. 200v).
The Augustinian canonesses regular of St Agnes, Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands, owned in the 15th century: their ownership inscription: 'Dit boec hoert totten regulierissen tsinte agineten binnen delf inden dale van iozaphat' (f. 204r).
Adam Clarke (b. 1762, d. 1832), Wesleyan Methodist minister and scholar: after his death, Adam Clarke's library passed to his son, Rev. J. B. B. Clarke, who auctioned the printed books at Evans's on 18 February 1833, and published a detailed catalogue of the manuscripts in 1835. According to Frederic Madden's annotations in the Department of Manuscripts copies of the catalogues, the manuscripts were bought by the booksellers Baynes & Straker (or Baynes & Son), who first issued a catalogue with fixed prices in 1836, and then offered them for sale by auction at Sotheby’s on 20 June, 1836. Almost all the lots were bought in, and re-offered at Sotheby’s on 21 May, 1838 [where this manuscript was lot 14], but the auction was stopped at lot 5 'in consequence of no bidders appearing'. A selection of manuscripts were then purchased privately by the British Museum for £126 19s. 6d (Egerton MSS 628-709), and a further 17 lots were purchased subsequently for £2 9s. 6d. (Egerton MSS 710-730).
Purchased by the British Museum from Baynes & Son, 29 May 1838 (see note, f. [i] recto), using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829).
- Information About Copies:
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Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1836-1840 (London: British Museum, 1843), no. Eg. 675.
Karel de Flou and Edward Gailliard, Beschrijving van Middelnederlandse en andere handschriften die in Engeland bewaard worden, Verslagen en Mededelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Taal- en Letterkunde, 3 vols (Ghent: Koninklijke Vlaamsche Academie voor Taal- en Letterkunde, 1895–1897), I (1895), pp. 119-21.
Robert Priebsch, Deutsche Handschriften in England, 2 vols (Erlangen: Junge, 1896–1901), II (1901), pp. 63-64 (no. 86).
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 581.
J. P. Gumbert, The Dutch and their Books in the Manuscript Age, The Panizzi Lectures, 1989 (London: British Library, 1990), p. 87 n. 60.
Karl Stooker and Theo Verbeij, Collecties op orde: Middelnederlandse handschriften uit kloosters en semi-religieuze gemeenschappen in de Nederlanden, Miscellanea neerlandica 15-16, 2 vols (Leuven: Peeters, 1997), II: Repertorium, p. 102 (no. 277).
Daniël Ermens and Willemien van Dijk, Repertorium van Middelnederlandse preken in handschriften tot en met 1550 = Repertorium of Middle Dutch Sermons Preserved in Manuscripts from Before 1550, Miscellanea Neerlandica, 29, 7 vols (Leuven: Peeters, 2008), VI: Leiden-Zwolle, pp. 78-82.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)