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Prophetie principallement de Flandre et de Picardie
Title
Prophetie principallement de Flandre et de Picardie.
Created
Belgium, 1571.
Physical Description
9 leaves : parchment ; 131 mm x 98 mm
Language
French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Notes
Title from head of text.
Bound with Jan de Millem, Le chemin pour aler en Jherusalem. Item extent: 1 volume (ii + 46 + ii leaves).
Attributed to Agathe, “lequel devant son baptesme estoit appelle Sabiergles.” Per text, original copy of prophecies was taken down on 1430 April 1 “en Judee en la ville de Scarbotte.”
Script: French cursive.
Decoration: red ink rules around text on first five leaves.
Binding: nineteenth-century half calf. Gold-tooled spine, labels read "MS," "Voyage à Jerusalem," and "Proph." Marbled pastedowns.
Secundo folio: Qua[nd].
Prickings throughout. Evidence of repair to parchment (sewing) during production process, f1.
Ownership inscription of Jan Robert Le Avesne of Saint-Quentin, Aisne, and date 1573 on f1r: “Che p[rese]nt livre apertient A Jan Robert le Avesne demorant e[n] la Rue des maulx paroise de St Qunt[i]n.” Mottos “Pour ung mieulx” and “Iespere mievlx.” Ownership inscription of Jerome van Winge, canon of Tournai, on f1r: “Hieronymi Winghij Can(oni)ci Tor. Tor.” Reused parchment: verso containing presentation inscription? to Johannes Campensis. Unidentified 19th-century book stamp on back flyleaf.
In Middle French.
Provenance
Ownership inscription Jan Robert le Avesne. Ownership inscription Jerome van Winge. Purchased from Antiquariat Inlibris on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on parchment presenting prophecies for Flanders and Picardie attributed to a doctor named Agathe.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
November 03, 2021
References
Agathe, active approximately 1430. Prophetie principallement de Flandre et de Picardie. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Agathe, active approximately 1430. Prophetie principallement de Flandre et de Picardie. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Belgium - 16th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance - Belgium - 16th century.
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