Gerard Appelmans was a 13th-century

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in the

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who wrote a theologically and linguistically innovative mystical gloss on the

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entitled ''Glose op den pater noster''. This treatise is part of a manuscript now in the

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, MS 3067–73, folios 143-151v. It was edited and published in 1927.L. Reypens, "Gheraert Appelmans' Glose op het Vaderons", ''

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'', 1 (1927), pp. 83-107.

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