connection between the two resulting in #Dutch #polder (see #Poldri) the word’s immediate etymology is from #MiddleDutch #polre > pol (drained or diked land) with a ‘d’ thrown in for fun where polre itself was originally a dike or dam and these of course could first have been made from tree
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Today’s delivery! I’m genuinely proud that the surviving translations from Middle Dutch into French - and there aren’t that many - have been given a place in this wonderful book series on translation, from antiquity up to today. #middledutch #middelnederlands
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...

#MiddleDutch #fragment claxon!

The back of the book, showing a short strip of parchment with a line of middle Dutch.

The binding was reinforced with a piece of parchment that contains #MiddleDutch verses. These fragments are all that remain of a #medieval codex. #Fragmentology 2/3

Can you add 2 fragments from Jan van Boendale's Der leken spiegel? They are available thanks to MMFC and Fragmentarium @fragmentarium.bsky.social
1. Antwerpen, EHC, Fragm. 50 a-c: fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-c...
2. Gent, UB, Hs. 1588: fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-7...
#Fragmentology #MiddleDutch

SB zu Berlin, Ms. germ. fol. 751 , 1300

Are we missing any Middle Dutch gems? Help us expand our list of digitized #MiddleDutch #manuscripts and prints from libraries worldwide! Check out what's already there and let us know what should be added: nl.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisou...