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Title

Rule of Saint Augustine; Sermon on Matthew 25:6

Authors

• Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126290.html)
• Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50079116.html)

Other related names

• Spegher, Marghareta van den, Sister, former owner
• Essen, Anna van, Sister, former owner
• Prince Arenberg Library, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 213
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicciSup: 23

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350); Latin

Origin

Place

Brussels, Flanders

Summary

This manuscript was written in the late fifteenth century at the Cloister of Jericho in Brussels by eleven nuns, who are named in the colophon. It contains the Rule of Saint Augustine with commentary by Hugh of Saint-Victor, and a sermon on Matthew 25:6, both in Dutch with some Latin rubrics. It is written on paper in Hybrida script with numerous changes of hand, three penwork initials, and rubrication and underlining in red.

Notes

• 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).
   
• 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
   
• Dutch with some Latin rubrics
   

Watermark

Briquet 10031, 11399, 12497

Extent

Iii+126+iii; 136 x 99 mm bound to 145 x 110 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (2), 2-14 (8), 15 (12), 16 (8)

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Horizontal, lower right last verso of most quires, some partially or mostly trimmed away

Binding

Original vellum wrappers; traces of two thongs each on front and back cover; sticker attached to spine; edges dyed blue

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

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

Script

Hybrida

Cursive (fols. 119r-126v)

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

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

Colophon

Dit sijn der gheender namen die dit boexsken ghescreven hebben uut caritaten. Ons eerweerdighe pater heer Philips Nycholaes god sij sijn loen. Suster Beatrix Noeys, suster Margarete Bont, suster Janne van den Velde, suster Marie van Hansbeke, suster Katherie Tymmermans, suster Maria Meerts, suster Margarete Joerdaens, suster Janne Colijns, suster Anne Joerdaens, suster Rijckmoet van Zelken, suster Maergarete van den Rade. Int boeck des levens sij haerder alder name (fol. 118r)

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 back cover); in pencil on inside front cover: "Provenant de la grande bibliotheque", "WW 2/1/78 $150.00", and "B,7"; in pencil inside back cover, "1825", "k..e..b", "5 francs", and "57-520"
   

Related resources

• 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.
• 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
• 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).

Keywords

• Commentary
• Church Fathers
• Theology
• 15th century
• Christian
• Dutch
• Flemish
• Colophon
• Belgium
• Flanders

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Table of contents

• fol. 3r — Saint Augustine, Regula, with the Expositio in regulam sancti Augustini of Hugh of Saint-Victor, in Dutch
• fol. 119r — Sermon on Matthew 25:6; incipit: Ten midder nacht is een oepen ghemaect siet die brudegom comet gaeet hem teghen … [fol. 119r]; explicit: Dat ghij in mij ende ic in v onverscheydelijc moeten bliuen hier ende inder ewicheit Amen. [fol. 126v]

Decorations

• fol. 3r — Three line decorated initial D
• fol. 119r — Five line Decorated initial M
• fol. 125v — Three line decorated initial O