{"title":"Volgens het boekje: Gerard Leeus Nederlandstalige editie van de Meditationes de vita et passione Jesu Christi","authors":"A. Dlabačová","doi":"10.2143/OGE.91.1.3289292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.91.1.3289292","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores the Dutch recension of the richly illustrated Latin Meditationes de vita et passione Jesu Christi, a weekly excersie that went directly into print and was first published by Gerard Leeu in Antwerp on 10 February 1485. The Dutch text appeared about two years later, on 5 Janruary 1487. Both the Dutch and the Latin texts contain at their core the sixty-five prayers on the Passion (from Christ’s agony in the Garden of Gethsemane to his funeral) from Jordan of Quedlinburg’s Meditationes de passione Christi (1365). Each of the prayers is accompanied by a woodcut, which in itself was an important innovation and departure from previous manuscript transmission that did not systematically illustrate each prayer. Furthermore, the compiler of the weekly exercise used Jordan’s prayers as his reference point, and divided them over five days of the week (Monday-Friday). He added other (meditative) texts and prayers so that readers are presented with an exercise for each day of the week that permits them to meditate on the entire life of Christ (from Mary’s visit to Elizabeth to Mary’s Ascension), as well as on other subjects, such as the four last things (death, judgement, hell, heaven) throughout the week. Here, images are also used as an integral part of the meditative exercise. The printed text might have been based on a similar exercise found in a manuscript from South-Holland, currently held at The Hague, Royal Library, 133 H 1. Moreover, the Dutch edition of 1487 is not just a translation of Leeu’s earlier Latin edition: apart from changes to its physical appearance, the text has undergone a siginificant reworking as well. The meditations to be performed before lunch, before and after dinner, and before going to sleep, are longer and much more detailed than in the Latin edition, allowing unexperienced readers to use these ‘intimate scripts’ in their meditations. Leeu’s parallel editions of the Latin and Dutch Meditationes thus provided various groups of readers (Latinate, non-Latinate, those familiar with meditative techniques and the Gospels, and those who were not) to participate in affective meditation on Christ’s life and to deepen their spiritual lifes in a similar fashion despite the differences in their background.","PeriodicalId":39580,"journal":{"name":"Ons Geestelijk Erf","volume":"91 1","pages":"109-157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49438682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"De oudste Mariagetijden in het Nederlands : editie van de tekst in handschrift St.-Petersburg, Biblioteka Akademii Nauk, O 257 (1300-1350)","authors":"Y. Desplenter","doi":"10.2143/OGE.91.1.3289291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.91.1.3289291","url":null,"abstract":"This article contains an edition of the oldest Middle Dutch version of the Hours of the Virgin, according to MS St.-Petersburg, Biblioteka Akademii Nauk, O 257 (1300-1350). This vernacular version is a translation of the so called Little Office of the Virgin (use of Rome), as it was prayed – first in Latin, later on also in the vernacular – in many religious communities from the early Middle Ages until the middle of the sixteenth century. This oldest translation in Middle Dutch was most probably made in the southern part of medieval Brabant, and might have been intended for those who had to pray the Little Office in Latin, but had insufficient knowledge of the lingua franca of the Church.","PeriodicalId":39580,"journal":{"name":"Ons Geestelijk Erf","volume":"91 1","pages":"43-108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68172509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The passion from the Middle Dutch Life of Jesus: Critical edition of a fourteenth-century passion harmony from Red Cloister (MS. Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, 920) Het lijdensverhaal uit het middelnederlandse Leven van Jezus","authors":"A. D. Hollander, M. Klomp","doi":"10.2143/OGE.91.1.3289290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.91.1.3289290","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39580,"journal":{"name":"Ons Geestelijk Erf","volume":"91 1","pages":"3-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68172873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"750 years on : Beatrice of Nazareth revisited","authors":"J. Deploige, Veerle Fraeters","doi":"10.2143/OGE.89.3.0000000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.89.3.0000000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39580,"journal":{"name":"Ons Geestelijk Erf","volume":"89 1","pages":"211-224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68172459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hugo van Sint-Victors Soliloquium de arrha animae in het Middelnederlands: Kritische editie van de oudste Middelnederlandse vertaling van Hugo's zelfgesprek over de opgang naar de hoogtse liefde","authors":"R. Hoff, K. Schepers","doi":"10.2143/OGE.89.1.3285125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.89.1.3285125","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39580,"journal":{"name":"Ons Geestelijk Erf","volume":"89 1","pages":"6-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68172437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Causa spiritualis instructionis: The Modern Devout Collatio as a Community of Learning","authors":"P. Boonstra","doi":"10.2143/OGE.88.1.3248513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.88.1.3248513","url":null,"abstract":"On Sundays and holidays, the Brothers of the Common Life would invite laypeople to their House and offer them some spiritual instructions by reading vernacular religious texts to them. This practice of collatio has received little attention in recent scholarship. By invoking the paradigm of the ‘community of learning’ this article hopes to offer a tentative exploration of the collatio and the possibilities for further research it offers. Proposing a general reconstruction of the overall nature of the discussion, the interaction and the close distance between the urban laypeople and the Brothers of the Common Life will be stressed. Two books of collations will allow for an examination of the topics to be discussed during the collatio and the way in which they were to be treated. The collatio provided laypeople with applicable religious thought: religious instructions they could fruitfully apply to their daily lives. Moreover, the collatio communicated the message that select religious knowledge should be available to laypeople, and that laypeople should actively seek out opportunities to acquire such learning. As laypeople were active participants in the urban religious landscape – for instance visiting sermons, reading vernacular religious texts, or forming personal relations with the local clergy – the collatio simultaneously responded to a lay demand for religious knowledge and offered the Brothers of the Common Life a chance to reach out to an urban audience.","PeriodicalId":39580,"journal":{"name":"Ons Geestelijk Erf","volume":"88 1","pages":"35-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43075393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Het Groenendaalse verzamelhandschrift van Jan van Leeuwen : een reconstructie : codicologisch-filologische analyse van Brussel, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, II 138","authors":"E. Vandemeulebroucke, M. Kors","doi":"10.2143/OGE.87.3.3239923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.87.3.3239923","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39580,"journal":{"name":"Ons Geestelijk Erf","volume":"87 1","pages":"359-408"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68172765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"De Allerzielenpreek van Judocus a Castro o.f.m. in handschrift Antwerpen Ruusbroecgenootschap, neerl. 37","authors":"A. Hollander, T. Mertens","doi":"10.2143/OGE.88.2.3256934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.88.2.3256934","url":null,"abstract":"In this article a sermon by Judocus a Castro ofm (Josse van der Borght, † 1634) is edited and commented upon. This sermon is only preserved in MS. Antwerp, Ruusbroecgenootschap, neerl. 37. The occasion of the sermon is All Souls Day. The listeners are urged to help the ‘poor little souls’ in purgatory. It also lashes in a passage scholars from Louvain, who gave a lame answer to a theological question of the preacher.","PeriodicalId":39580,"journal":{"name":"Ons Geestelijk Erf","volume":"88 1","pages":"297-314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68172930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Rhine to the Vistula: The low countries, Germany and religious reform in renaissance Poland","authors":"Howard Louthan","doi":"10.2143/OGE.87.1.3200544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/OGE.87.1.3200544","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39580,"journal":{"name":"Ons Geestelijk Erf","volume":"87 1","pages":"179-199"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68172524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}