(Q21171)
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Rule of Saint Augustine; Sermon on Matthew 25:6
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Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
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Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141
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Spegher, Marghareta van den, Sister
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Essen, Anna van, Sister
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Prince Arenberg Library
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1480-1499
15. century
1480Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Extent: iii+126+iii; 136 x 99 mm bound to 145 x 110 mm; paper
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Eleven nuns and their confessor listed in colophon (fol. 118r): Beatrix Noeys (†1497), Margarete Bont, Janne van den Velde (†1504), Maria van Hausbeke (†1530), Katherine Tymmermans, (†1530), Maria Meerts (†1503), Margarete Joerdaens (†1519), Janne Colijns (†1491), Anne Joerdaens (†1495), Rijckmoct van Zellien (†1532), Margarete van den Rade (†1540), and Father Philips Nycholaes (†1500).
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Confessor Philips Nycholaes's tenure at the Cloister of Jericho from 1480 to his death in 1500 set the outer date limits of this manuscript
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Dutch with some Latin rubrics
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Binding: Original vellum wrappers; traces of two thongs each on front and back cover; sticker attached to spine; edges dyed blue
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Layout: One column of eighteen lines; frame-ruled in dry point and ink with double horizontal bounding lines; the commentary and rule text alternate in the single column, with the rule text underlined in red; written area: 98 x 68 mm
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Script: Hybrida
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Script: Cursive (fols. 119r-126v)
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Script: Scribe: Beatrix Noeys, Margarete Bont, Janne van den Velde, Maria van Hausbeke, Katherine Tymmermans, Maria Meerts, Margarete Joerdaens, Janne Colijns, Anne Joerdaens, Rijckmoct van Zellien, Margarete van den Rade, and Father Philips Nycholaes
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Script: Hand changes at fols. 3r-11r, 11r-14r, 14r-22r, 22v-30r, 30v-35r, 35r-50v, 51r-58v, 59r-66v, 67r-83r, 83v-98v, 99r-197r, 107v-118r, 119r-126v
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Decoration: Two three-line initials (fol. 3r, 125v) and one five-line initial (fol. 119r) in blue ink with red penwork; rubrication, underlining, paragraph marks and touches to capitals in red throughout
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Related resource: Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, originated by C. U. Faye, continued and edited by W. H. Bond (New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 451, no. 23.
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Related resource: Stoop, Patricia, Schrijven in commissie. De zusters uit het Brusselse klooster Jericho en de preken van hun biechtvaders (ca. 1456–1510). Hilversum: Verloren, 2013 (Middeleeuwse Studies en Bronnen, CXXVII). 495 pp. (I mention the manuscript at pp. 26, 77, 83 nt. 138, 95, 119, 122-123 table 5, 329 n. 46, 347, 347 n. 81, and 400-402
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Related resource: Webber, Philip E. "Medieval Netherlandic Manuscripts in Greater Philadelphia Libraries." Archives et bibliotheques de Belgique 47, no. 3-4 (1976), pp. 504-506 (article pp. 459-513).
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Provenance: Marghareta van den Spiegher (inscription, S. Marghareta vanden Spiegher, fol. 3r); Sister Anna van Essen (1623; inscription, Dit boexken is in die bewaringhe van suster Anna van Elsen alsoo langhe alst haer overste belieft 1623 den 22 januarius, fol. 1r); Prince Arenberg Library; acquired by the Free Library in 1957 from H. P. Kraus (inscription in pencil, Kraus 59 RS.NXX, inside...
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Contributor: Diane Biunno
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Cataloger: Amey Hutchins
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Funder: Council on Library and Information Resources
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4 December 2023
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4 December 2023
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