Anonymous Dutch scribe

Los 8
14.12.2022 10:30UTC +00:00
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Los 8 | Anonymous Dutch scribe
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Anonymous Dutch scribe

A fragment from the Roman der Lorreinen, in Middle Dutch, manuscript on vellum [Netherlands, probably Brabant, first half 14th century]

A fragment in Middle Dutch from the Roman der Lorreinen, the vernacular translation of an Old French romance completed in the 13th century for circulation among the newly-emerged Brabantine and Flemish urban bourgeoisie.



270 x c.55mm. 2 columns of 42 lines, text block: 225mm high, modern pen annotation ‘55’ on recto, the recto with the remains of a 2-line initial in red. The text mentions ‘fromont’ twice, suggesting it may be a fragment of Lorreinen I (binding fragment, central crease where the spine would have been).



The Middle Dutch Roman de Lorreinen has as its subject the never-ending feud between Loherain and Bordelais knights: Garin le Loherain and his brother Begon from Lorraine are the sworn enemies of Fromont de Lens and Guillaume de Monclin from Bordeaux, the two families locked into violent conflict across the generations. Translated into Dutch from two French chansons de geste from the Lorrain cycle in the middle of the 13th century (Lorreinen I), with a continuation of the text composed by a Brabantine poet that dates from the final quarter of the 13th century (Lorreinen II), no complete manuscript of the Roman der Lorreinen survives. For the most part, these vernacular texts survive as fragments of what must have been relatively modest manuscripts, presumably owned by the urban bourgeoisie who emerged in Flanders and Brabant after the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302 (see J. B. van der Have, ‘The Manuscripts of the Middle Dutch Charlemagne Romances’, Olifant, vol. 26, no 2, 2011, p.29). This reading audience fuelled a demand for texts in Dutch, as opposed to the French used by the court.





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