Composite manuscript, containing collections of Middle Dutch, Latin and Middle French textsCollection of moralising versesBilingual educational treatise containing several texts — 1467 × 1500

Title

Composite manuscript, containing collections of Middle Dutch, Latin and Middle French textsCollection of moralising versesBilingual educational treatise containing several texts — 1467 × 1500

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Misc. 278

Place of origin

Holy Land, Jaffa

Flanders, Bruges

Flanders

Date

15th century, third quarter.

15th century, second half.

1468–70

1467 × 1500

1467.

Language

Latin

Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment, paper

Physical extent

iii + 176 (16 + 80 + 32 + 48) + ii

Binding

18th-century binding, made in Venice for the library of Giacomo Soranzo (Kienhorst 1999, 60).

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817.

Provenance

Bernardo Trevisan, 1652–1720: fol. iii, added in the 18th century for Trevisan's library, gives an incomplete list of contents (Kienhorst 1999, 59–60).

Giacomo Soranzo, 1686–1761

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , –1807

Title

German poems, etc.

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Misc. 278

Summary

Jacob van Maerlant, Martin (with Latin translation by Jan Bukelare), Latin and Dutch

Verses, Latin, German (Dutch?) and French

Disticha Catonis (with French translation), Latin and French

Proverbs, German (Dutch?)

Poem of advice to a youth, German (Dutch?) and French

Date

15th century

Language

Dutch

French

Latin

German

Physical extent

1 volume