TNTL 110

Karina van Dalen-Oskam

Verdwaalde voorouders. De herkomst van v. 9115-9154 van Jacob van Maerlants Rijmbijbel

Abstract - The first part of Jacob van Maerlant's Rijmbijbel (1271) is a translation/adaptation of Peter Comestor's Historia Scholastica. Ll. 9115-9154, however, contain a genealogy from Jacob to David for which Maerlant seems to have consulted neither Comestor nor any other of the tradionally known sources of the Rijmbijbel. It is Peter of Poitier's
Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi which not only contains all the facts (minus two minor details), it is also often added to manuscripts with Comestor's Historia Scholastica. Both Compendium and Rijmbijbel revolve around Jesus; Maerlant includes the genealogy when introducing His most famous ancestor and prefiguration: David.