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Suster Bertken (1426 - 1514)

Short name Suster Bertken
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First name Suster
Birth name Bertken
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Alternative name Bertken van Utrecht — Bertha Jacobs
Date of birth 1426
Date of death 1514
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Sex Female
Place of birth Utrecht
Place of death Utrecht
Lived in Netherlands
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Religion / ideology Catholic
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Suster Bertkens boeck dat sy selver gemaect ende bescreven heeft (1516) 2 0

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MENTIONED IN:
- Romein, Vrouwenspiegel 1935, 1
- Ter Laan 1941 (DBNL)
- G.P.M. Knuvelder, Beknopt handboek tot de geschiedenis der Nederlandse letterkunde. 1982 (10th ed.), p. 81: "Zij dichtte een aantal geestelijke liederen, die na haar dood [...] werden uitgegeven".
- Van Bork en Verkruijsse, 1985 (DBNL)
- Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon (DVN online-portrait)
- De Jeu 171: haar neef Cornelis Suys zorgde ervoor dat haar Latijnse psalmbewerkingen bekend werden bij de geleerden aan de Sorbonne
- see URL for pages about her in Women's Writing from the Low Countries

Utrechtse literaire canon nr. 17 (2008)

Lived (from 1457) as a recluse at the Buurkerk in Utrecht.
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