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Pélerinage de vie humaine [end lacking] 1r
Pélerinage de l'âme [beginning lacking] 80r
Pélerinage de Jésus Christ 135r
L'oroison de de l'auteur 203r
Pélerinage de vie humaine [end lacking] 1r
Pélerinage de l'âme [beginning lacking] 80r
Pélerinage de Jésus Christ 135r
L'oroison de de l'auteur 203r
Pélerinage de vie humaine [end lacking] 1r
Pélerinage de l'âme [beginning lacking] 80r
Pélerinage de Jésus Christ 135r
L'oroison de de l'auteur 203r
Pélerinage de vie humaine [end lacking] 1r
Pélerinage de l'âme [beginning lacking] 80r
Pélerinage de Jésus Christ 135r
L'oroison de de l'auteur 203r
All Decorations
This imposing manuscript contains a trilogy of versified allegorical works by Guillaume de Deguileville (1295-before 1358), the popular Cistercian author whose works circulated widely in French. The first text contained in the manuscript is the Pèlerinage de la vie humaine in its first recension, the second is the Pèlerinage de l'âme and the third is the Pèlerinage de Jesus-Christ. The texts are accompanied by a total of 284 pen-and-wash drawings of varying artistic quality; at least three different artists appear to have worked on the illustration campaign. A colophon found on the recto and verso of the final folio states that the book was produced by the scribe Fromentin in 1437 at the behest of Duke René of Anjou for his councilor and chamberlain Louis Martel, lord of Angierville. On folio 106r the remains of a marginal note for an illuminator can be discerned.
Support: Parchment; Extent: ii+204+ii; 356 x 249 mm bound to 366 x 273 mm; Foliation: Foliated in modern pencil in lower right corner; also foliated in contemporary red ink in upper right corner [starts with iii and numbers absent on a few leaves]; Collation: 1 (6), 2 (14), 3-7 (12), 8 (16), 9 (6), 10 (12), 11 (10), 12 (14, -2 -13 -14), 13 (12, -1), 14-16 (12), 17 (10, -9), 18 (16, -15 -16)
Two columns of forty-four lines, ruled in lead; written area: 258 x 173 mm
Bâtarde
Two-hundred-and-eighty-four pen-and-wash drawings in gold frames, by at least three different illuminators; many flourished initials
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.
Five folios missing between folios 79 and 80; one folio missing between folios 124 and 125; one folio missing between folios 189 and 190 (as per original foliation markings)
The three publications of the texts contained in this volume, edited by J.J. Stürzinger 1893-1897, include illustrations drawn from this manuscript
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.
Angers?, France
According to the contemporary colophon, fol. 204v, written by order of René of Anjou for Louis Martel, seigneur d'Angierville, his councilor and chamberlain, in 1437; 1437
French, early-nineteenth-century green morocco with gold-tooled spine, boards and board edges by Bozerian, Paris
Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Made by Rene I, duc d'Anjou, as a gift to Louis Martel, seigneur d'Angierville (his councilor and chamberlain), 1437; William Beckford of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire and Bath (1759-1844); Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 10th duke of Hamilton and Brenden, Hamilton Place, Scotland, 1844; William Alexander Anthony Archibald Douglas Hamilton, 11th duke of Hamilton and Brenden; Royal Museum of Berlin, 1882; sale, Sotheby's, London, 23 May 1889, lot 48; Henry Hucks Gibbs, 1st Lord of Aldenham ("Aldenham House, Herts.," armorial bookplate on inside front cover); A.S.W. Rosenbach, 26 May 1930
Angers?, France
According to the contemporary colophon, fol. 204v, written by order of René of Anjou for Louis Martel, seigneur d'Angierville, his councilor and chamberlain, in 1437; 1437
Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Made by Rene I, duc d'Anjou, as a gift to Louis Martel, seigneur d'Angierville
This imposing manuscript contains a trilogy of versified allegorical works by Guillaume de Deguileville (1295-before 1358), the popular Cistercian author whose works circulated widely in French. The first text contained in the manuscript is the Pèlerinage de la vie humaine in its first recension, the second is the Pèlerinage de l'âme and the third is the Pèlerinage de Jesus-Christ. The texts are accompanied by a total of 284 pen-and-wash drawings of varying artistic quality; at least three different artists appear to have worked on the illustration campaign. A colophon found on the recto and verso of the final folio states that the book was produced by the scribe Fromentin in 1437 at the behest of Duke René of Anjou for his councilor and chamberlain Louis Martel, lord of Angierville. On folio 106r the remains of a marginal note for an illuminator can be discerned.
Five folios missing between folios 79 and 80; one folio missing between folios 124 and 125; one folio missing between folios 189 and 190 (as per original foliation markings)
The three publications of the texts contained in this volume, edited by J.J. Stürzinger 1893-1897, include illustrations drawn from this manuscript
Bâtarde
Two-hundred-and-eighty-four pen-and-wash drawings in gold frames, by at least three different illuminators; many flourished initials
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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