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This manuscript, written in the first quarter of the sixteenth century in Rouen, contains Pierre Mesenge's Journal de sainct voyage pour visiter le sainct sepulcre, a first-person account of a journey to Jerusalem in 1507. The author describes sites in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, as well as other cities. The text is primarily in French but includes many prayers in Latin. The manuscript is written on parchment with numerous small illuminated initials and line-fillers.
Support: Parchment; Extent: iv+67+iv; 322 x 220 mm bound to 330 x 235 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; Collation: 1-8 (8), 9 (3, +3); Catchwords: Horizontal catchwords in lower center margin, verso; some lost due to trimming
Single column of thirty-eight lines; frame-ruled with single vertical and double horizontal bounding lines, ruled full across in ink; prickings extant; written area: 215 x 145 mm
Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Rectangular border along upper and inner margin of text with a gold ground framed in black with vines, scrolls, fruits, and flowers and one six-line blue and white scrolled initial (fol. 1r); ten prayers introduced by two-line initials alternating between monochrome and gold initials (fol. 6v); a single pen and ink two-line inhabited initial depicting a man's profile (fol. 24v); one- and two- line monochrome initials and line fillers throughout the book, some decorated with fruit, flowers, or penwork
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Rouen, France
First quarter 16th century
Dutch seventeenth-century gold-tooled parchment
Middle French (ca. 1400-1600); Latin
Written in Rouen after 1507. Early provenance unknown. P. A. Bolongaro-Crevenna collection, Amsterdam (Catalogue raisonné de la collection de livres de M. Pierre Antoine Crevenna à A. 1775, V, 37) (sale, April 1790, lot 5780 [on paper label inside front cover]); in the collection of Thomas Johnes of Hafod, the seventh Duke of Newcastle (his "Magnificent library"), sold by order of the Earl of Lincoln (sale, Sotheby, 6 December 1937, lot 956) to Charles J. Sawyer, Ltd. Unidentified catalogue entry, in French, glued to inside front cover. Several numbers on the verso of f. i, in lead: "MS. 915.69 M 56," "23/B," "411," "5y3 d. 12." On back flyleaf in ink: "Ixr. Gg" and in lead: "6432." Acquired for the collection of Phyllis Walter Goodhart (bookplate) and Howard L. Goodhart in May 1938, and given to Bryn Mawr College (bookplate) in 1942
Rouen, France
First quarter 16th century
Middle French (ca. 1400-1600); Latin
Written in Rouen after 1507. Early provenance unknown. P. A. Bolongaro-Crevenna collection, Amsterdam (sale, April 1790, lot 5780 [on paper label inside front cover]); in the collection of Thomas Johnes of Hafod, the seventh Duke of Newcastle (his "Magnificent library"), sold by order of the Earl of Lincoln (sale, Sotheby, 6 December 1937, lot 956) to Charles J. Sawyer, Ltd. Unidentified catalogue entry, in French, glued to inside front cover. Several numbers on the verso of f. i, in lead: "MS. 915.69 M 56," "23/B," "411," "5y3 d. 12." On back flyleaf in ink: "Ixr. Gg" and in lead: "6432." Acquired for the collection of Phyllis Walter Goodhart (bookplate) and Howard L. Goodhart in May 1938, and given to Bryn Mawr College (bookplate) in 1942 (provenance)
This manuscript, written in the first quarter of the sixteenth century in Rouen, contains Pierre Mesenge's Journal de sainct voyage pour visiter le sainct sepulcre, a first-person account of a journey to Jerusalem in 1507. The author describes sites in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, as well as other cities. The text is primarily in French but includes many prayers in Latin. The manuscript is written on parchment with numerous small illuminated initials and line-fillers.
Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Rectangular border along upper and inner margin of text with a gold ground framed in black with vines, scrolls, fruits, and flowers and one six-line blue and white scrolled initial (fol. 1r); ten prayers introduced by two-line initials alternating between monochrome and gold initials (fol. 6v); a single pen and ink two-line inhabited initial depicting a man's profile (fol. 24v); one- and two- line monochrome initials and line fillers throughout the book, some decorated with fruit, flowers, or penwork
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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