The Heber-Serrure codex (Ghent, University Library, Ms. 1374)

The Heber-Serrure codex (Ghent, University Library, Ms. 1374) This repository holds the raw XML data underlying the diplomatic edition of the Heber-Serrure codex (Ghent, University Library, Ms. 1374), a Middle Dutch miscellany, dating to the late fourteenth century. The edition was published in the series "Middelnederlandse verzamelhandschriften", under the auspices of the series' editorial panel. The present, digital edition follows the (TEI-inspired) MVN-guidelines developed by Peter Boot and Herman Brinkman, supported by a publicly available Oxygen framework (Github). The edition and the (Dutch-language) introduction can be consulted online (additionally archived through the Wayback Machine). A IIIF-compliant, open-access facsimile of the manuscript can be consulted through the website of Ghent University Library. The material in this repository is shared under an open access-license (Creative Commons; CC-BY-SA 4.0) that encourages re-use but requires an explicit attribution. If you use this edition, please provide an appropriate scholarly citation, e.g.: Renée Gabriël & Mike Kestemont (eds). De Heber-Serrurecodex: Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Hs. 1374. Diplomatische editie bezorgd door Renée Gabriël en Mike Kestemont, met een dialectologische analyse door Amand Berteloot. Middeleeuwse Verzamelhandschriften uit de Nederlanden XVII. Amsterdam, Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis en Cultuur van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 2023. URL: hbsr.mvn.huygens.knaw.nl. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8385501. English summary The Heber-Serrure manuscript (Ghent, University Library, Ms. 1374) is a miscellany containing Middle Dutch rhyming texts, mostly ethical and didactic in content. Although the manuscript is not explicitly dated or localized, there is ample reason to assume that the codex was compiled near the end of the fourteenth century in the Carthusian monastery of Herne (about 18 miles southwest of Brussels). For a variety of reasons, this codex deserves our attention (and a new, modern edition), as it continues to fascinate both philologists and book historians. Until now, the Heber-Serrure manuscript has been primarily valued because of the many unique texts which it contains, including sizable excerpts from the Spiegel historiael (the Middle Dutch adaption of Vincent of Beauvais’ Speculum historiale) as well as a number of rare strophic poems by Jacob van Maerlant, but also the Rinclus. All of these works have already been edited in the past, based on the Heber-Serrure codex. These historic editions, however, were often heavily critical in orientation and appeared in isolation from one another, thus hindering our view on the joint survival of these works, as well as the original context in which this book was produced and meant to function. The present diplomatic edition aims to correct this situation. From the point of book history too, the Heber-Serrure manuscript present us with a remarkable object for scholarly study: the manuscript only contains rhyming texts, but these have been copied as continuous prose, most likely to save space (and time). Moreover, the available evidence suggests that the text collection wasn’t copied from a prior witness: in this manuscript, we can almost literally peak over the scribe’s shoulder, because we are dealing with a ‘growth miscellany’ that was composed in distinct phases, even though these phases were not meticulously planned beforehand. The single scribe of the book also acted as the book’s compiler, thus enabling privileged insights into the dynamic process that led to the gradual expansion of the codex’s content. That we can place the composition of the Heber-Serrure manuscript relatively precisely (in Herne) is unusual for a vernacular medieval codex in the medieval Low Countries. A such, we are able to study the codex in relation to a large number of contemporary sources that were produced in the same monastic environment. The manuscript’s main and only scribe is currently known under the pen name ‘Speculum scribe’, named so after his most famous copy, the second part of the Middle Dutch Speculum historiale adaptation (Spiegel historiael) in Vienna, Ö.N.B. Cod. 13.708; the scribe’s historic identity has not been established (yet), although a large number of manuscripts survive in his handwriting.赫伯-塞鲁尔抄本（根特大学图书馆，Ms. 1374） 本仓库存储了赫伯-塞鲁尔抄本（根特大学图书馆，Ms. 1374）原样转录版所依托的原始XML数据。该抄本为一部十四世纪晚期的中古荷兰语杂集。本转录本由《中古荷兰语杂抄本丛刊》（Middelnederlandse verzamelhandschriften）编委会主持刊行。当前的数字版转录本遵循由Peter Boot与Herman Brinkman制定的、受文本编码倡议（TEI，Text Encoding Initiative）启发的MVN编订规范，并依托GitHub上公开可用的Oxygen XML编辑框架完成。本转录本及荷兰语导论可在线查阅（同时可通过互联网档案馆（Wayback Machine）进行归档访问）。一份符合国际图像互操作框架（IIIF，International Image Interoperability Framework）标准的开放获取手稿影印本可通过根特大学图书馆官网查阅。本仓库内的素材采用知识共享（Creative Commons）CC-BY-SA 4.0开放获取许可协议发布，允许二次使用但需明确标注原作者。若您使用本转录本，请附上规范的学术引用，例如： Renée Gabriël与Mike Kestemont（编）. 《赫伯-塞鲁尔抄本：根特大学图书馆藏Ms. 1374号手稿》. 由Renée Gabriël与Mike Kestemont负责校勘，Amand Berteloot负责方言分析. 《尼德兰中古杂抄本丛刊》第17卷. 阿姆斯特丹：荷兰皇家艺术与科学院胡伊岑文化与历史研究所，2023年. 网址：hbsr.mvn.huygens.knaw.nl. DOI：10.5281/zenodo.8385501. 英文摘要 赫伯-塞鲁尔手稿（根特大学图书馆，Ms. 1374）是一部收录中古荷兰语韵文文本的杂集，内容多以伦理说教为主。尽管该手稿未标注明确的成书时间与地点，但有充分理由推断其编订于十四世纪末期，地点位于布鲁塞尔西南约18英里的埃纳加尔都西会修道院。出于诸多原因，该抄本值得学界关注（并亟需推出全新的现代校勘本），其始终吸引着文献学家与书籍史家的研究兴趣。 迄今为止，赫伯-塞鲁尔手稿的学术价值主要源于其收录的大量独有文本：其中包括节选自《历史之镜》（Spiegel historiael，即博韦的樊尚《Historial Mirror》的中古荷兰语译本）的大段内容，雅各布·范·马尔兰特的若干罕见节诗体作品，以及《Rinclus》一文。上述所有作品此前均以赫伯-塞鲁尔抄本为底本完成过校勘。但这些早期校勘本多以批判性考证为导向，且均单独刊行，这阻碍了学界对这些作品的共同流传情况，以及该手稿的原始编订背景与功能的研究。本原样转录版正是为纠正这一局限而推出。 从书籍史视角来看，赫伯-塞鲁尔手稿同样是极具研究价值的对象：该手稿仅收录韵文文本，但抄写时却将其以连续散文的形式誊写，此举大概率是为节省篇幅与抄写时间。此外，现有证据表明该文本集并非抄自此前的传世版本：我们几乎可以直观地窥见抄写者的誊写过程——这是一部“逐步扩充的杂集”，其编订分多个阶段完成，且各阶段并未经过细致规划。该手稿的唯一抄写者同时也是编订者，这使得学界得以深入探究该抄本内容逐步扩充的动态过程。 对于中世纪低地地区的本土语言中古抄本而言，能够相对精准地确定赫伯-塞鲁尔手稿的编订地点（埃纳）与时间实属罕见。借此，我们可以将该抄本与同一修道院环境中产生的大量同期文献进行关联研究。该手稿唯一的主要抄写者目前被学界以“镜之抄写者”为绰号指代，这一称呼源自其最知名的抄本——藏于维也纳奥地利国家图书馆（Ö.N.B.）Cod. 13.708号的中古荷兰语《历史之镜》（Spiegel historiael）译本第二部分；尽管该抄写者的手迹留存于大量抄本中，但其真实身份至今尚未考证确定。