Jan van Ruysbroek (Ruusbroec) — 1475; Dutch
MS. Marshall 119
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Jan van Ruysbroek (Ruusbroec) — 1475; Dutch
Shelfmark
MS. Marshall 119
Place of origin
Dutch
Date
1475
Language
Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)
Contents
Form
codex
Support
paper
Physical extent
245 fols.
Binding
Black leather on boards, blind-tooled, with two clasps of brass and leather, contemporary.
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Title
Devotional treatises in Dutch by Jan Ruysbroek
Shelfmark
MS. Marshall 119
Summary
Devotional treatises in Dutch by Jan Ruysbroek (d. 1381):
Fol. 1. 'Hier beghinnen die twalef duechden die heer Ian Ruusbroec ghemaect heeft', beg. 'Dit boec leert van den twalef graden der duechden', in twelve chapters.
Fol. 112. 'Hier beghint een cleyne ende seer deuote materie sprekende van den mynliken liden ende sware passie ons Heren Ihesu Christi van Nasareth ...', beg. 'Die wtwendighe mensche spreket': followed by (fol. 162) a 'deuote oefeninge van den liden ons Heren Jhesu Christi', comprising several prayers.
Fol. 175. 'Dit is onser lieuer Vrowen lering die si sprac toe een regulier die ghenomet was broeder Willem Vos na dat iaer ons Heren dusent cccc ende xxxiij doe die salighe maghet Hedewy van Sciedam ghestoruen was Tiburcius ende Valerianus dach [14 April]', beg. 'Ie weet hoe ic myn dieures', colophon: 'Explicit anno MCCCCLXXV'. Chap. 20 is misplaced after chap. 22. See further R. Priebsch, Deutsche Hss. in England (1896), i. 161.
Date
Written in 1475 in Holland
Language
Dutch
Physical facet
On paper, binding, black leather on boards, blind-tooled, with two clasps of brass and leather, contemporary
Physical extent
245 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript (75).
On the inner front cover is 'Dit bouck hoort toe Sophia Maria Reyers: deyn Godt is myn troost, anno 1614' (cf. MS. Marshall 109).
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Collection contents
Devotional treatises in Dutch by Jan Ruysbroek
