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Document Details : Title: Wijsheid is de hoogste gave Gods Subtitle: De ontdekking van een strofische sproke in het handschrift-Van Hulthem Author(s): VAN ANROOIJ, Wim Journal: Spiegel der Letteren Volume: 50 Issue: 4 Date: 2008 Pages: 409-432 DOI: 10.2143/SDL.50.4.2033501 Abstract : The Van Hulthem manuscript (Brussels, c. 1405/08) consists of 214 numbered texts. Strictly speaking there are far more texts. For instance, the manuscript contains two collections of wisdom texts, with 234 (No. 108) and 225 (No. 148) items respectively. This contribution focuses on the previous history of one of these collections (No. 148). This collection, with rhyming texts with a size from two to twenty verses, goes back to a collection of Freidank proverbs and a series of texts attributed to authorities. The Freidank proverbs have been intermingled with yet other wisdom texts. The longest of these additional texts originate from Brabant/Flanders and go back to the first half of the fourteenth century. The proverbs attributed to authorities form an uninterrupted unit. Twelve consecutive proverbs appear to be one stanzaic poem, which has not been recognized as such by the copyist. He must have thought that he was writing down twelve separate proverbs. |
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