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MS NH108http://sylvester.jtsa.edu:8881/R/UJM6IV7PG65CECURLREFPV5IF3UX6BRA36PVYQ5SSG114AU73G-01876?func=results-jump-full&#38;set_entry=000015&#38;set_number=000230&#38;base=GEN01Texts originated in the Devotio moderna movement. Collation: 1 (parchment flyleaf) + 2-165 + 166 (parchment flyleaf) + i (paper flyleaf) leaves : paper and parchment. Text in black ink; rubrics in red ink. Written in a Gothic hybrid hand (unit 4 in Gothic cursive) Decoration: historiated initial executed in blue, green and yellow watercolors, and red ink (ff. 46r); fol. 70r, in blue only; several initials in red ink. Katherina van Mispeltern was a nun of the Facons monastery when Elyzabeth van Daesdonc was prioress (between 1477 and 1486) and Willem Zeghers (our text reads: Sugger) was prior (between 1468 and 1481); Jacoba Custodis was a nun there while Iacobi de Molendino was prior (between 1481 and 1494) Accompanying materials: Letter by J.A.A.M. Biemans, 12 June, 2001, containing identification and description (6 leaves) in a separate envelope. Selected images also available online via The Digital Scriptorium http://www.scriptorium.columbia.edu 1. fol. 1v: Dedication vow (official document) of a nun. [Incipit] Ego soror Katherina van Mispelteren promitto stabilitatem ... secundum regulam beati Augustini, et constituciones capituli nostri generalis ... Elyzabeth van Daesdonc priorisse huius moasterij ... in presentia dom[i]ni Wilhelmi Suggeri prioris in Korssendonk - 2. ff. 2r-44v?: [rubric] Van een sterven alre begheerten der tijtliker dinghen. [incipit] Men mach vraghen oft van noot es toten staet der volcomenheit die beloefte der willigher aermoeden te doene ende overgeven des tijtlijcs goets (Spiegel der volcomenheit, Part I: De xii stervinghen, chapters 1 and following / Hendrik Herp was written between 1455 and 1460, and published P. Lucidius Verschueren, ed., Antwerp, 1931) - 3. ff. 46r-80r: [heading (incipit formula)] Hier beghint een devoet buecsken van inwendighen ende uutwendighen oefeninghen seer leerlic ende nutte ionge beghinnende menschen ... vorgaen groeten vertroestingehn, dat ierste capittel. [incipit] Als u eenighe teghenheiden toecomen, so merct haer orbaerlicheit - 4. ff. 84r-162r: Middle Dutch translation/adaptation of De imitatione Christi / commonly attributed to Thomas a Kempis. ff. 84r-85v: Table of contents [Title] Dits de tafel van Qui sequere me; ff. 86r-162r: Text [rubric (incipit formula)] Hier beghint een zeer orberlijc [ver] vermaninge toten ghesteliken leven ende is gheheten int latijn qui Sequitur me ende heest ghemaect een regulier bi swol broder thomas. [incipit] Die my na volghet en wandelt niet in dust[er]nisse seit die heere Dit sijn die woerden ons heeren - 5. f. 166r: Dedication vow (official document) of a nun. [Incipit] Ego soror Jacoba Custodis promitto stabilitatem et conversionen morum meorum ... secundum regulam beati Augustini, et constituciones capituli nostri generalis ... Elyzabeth van Daesdonc priorisse huius moasterij ... in presencia dompni Iacobi de Molendino prioris Korssendonck.