Der leken spieghel, [13--].

Description

Title: Der leken spieghel, [13--].
Creator: van Boendale, Jan, d. 1365
Abstract: Manuscript fragment, on parchment, in Gothic bookhand, produced in the Netherlands during the fourteenth century. Der Leken Spieghel is a Middle Dutch rhymed Biblical epic, composed between 1325 and 1330. This leaf, a binding fragment, contains a portion of Book II which deals with the lineage of Joseph and Mary
Description: Jan van Boendale is also called Jan Decker and Jan de Clerc.
In Middle Dutch.
Illuminated miniatures at chapter headings.
Provenance: Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976.
Extent: 1 25 cm. x 17 cm. v. (1 f.)
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350)

Genre: Early works to 1800
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Name): van Boendale, Jan, d. 1365.
Subject (Topic): History of Biblical events
Poetry
Dutch poetry
Subjects: van Boendale, Jan, d. 1365
Bible > History of Biblical events > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Dutch poetry > Early to 1500
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Jan van Boendale, Der Leken Spieghel. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.