'Brabantian Deeds') is a rhyming chronicle of some 46,000 verses written in the 14th and 15th centuries in the Middle Dutch language.
It provides a history of the Duchy of Brabant, and the original five volumes were written by Jan van Boendale (c. 1280–c.
Boendale's main sources were the Chronica de origine ducum Brabantiae of 1294 and Spieghel Historiael of Jacob van Maerlant.
[citation needed] Books six and seven, which extend the scope of the chronicled events to 1440, were written by an anonymous continuator.
[citation needed] The text was first edited by Jan Frans Willems and Jean Henri Bormans beginning in 1839.