Le Pelerinage de vie humaine, etc
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Description
- Title
- Le Pelerinage de vie humaine, etc
- Creator
- Guillaume, de Deguileville, active 14th century
- Contributor
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Aethicus Ister.
Ruysbroeck, Willem van, approximately 1210-approximately 1270. - Published / Created
- [ca. 1400]
- Publication Place
- France
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment (thick, poor quality; trimmed) of 1) Guillaume de Deguilleville, Le Pelerinage de vie humaine. 2) Guillaume de Deguilleville, three poems in Latin. 3) Poem added in a 15th-century hand, contrasting the life of a servant and a rich man. 4) Willem van Ruysbroeck, Itinerarium. 5) Summary of Aethicus Ister, Cosmographia III.31-39, on the land of Gog and Magog. 6) Jean Chapuis, Les sept articles de la fois; often attributed, as it is here, to Jean de Meun
- Description
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In Latin and French.
Script: Composed of two distinct parts. Written by multiple scribes in cursive, with or without loops.
Part I (ff. 1r-92v): illustrated with 79 column miniatures; two others on ff. 83v and 85r have been cut out. The miniatures are simple pen drawings, tinted pink, red, tan, purple, and blue, in pen-ruled frames, tinted in yellow; on ff. 18r and 22r with ivy leaves on hair-line stems at corners and centers. On f. 16v an unframed drawing of the carpenter's pax. 2-line initials throughout, red or blue with black or red penwork. First letter of each verse stroked in yellow. Proper names in red.
Part II (ff. 93r-129r, 129v-141v) has two distinct formats. Between ff. 93r and 135r (art. 5), two 2-line initials, red, with simple brown penwork. Some capitals stroked in red or yellow. Between ff. 135v and 141r (art. 6), three crude tinted drawings, red, green and brown, in initials, either divided red and brown with red flourishes and dots, or red, with a scroll and a fish incorporated. Three drawings cut out from ff. 135v, 136v and 137r. Space left for one drawing on f. 139r and for two on f. 140v. 2-line initials in red, some with red penwork.
Folio 1r-v damaged, with loss of text and parts of miniatures.
Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown, mottled calf with a gold-tooled spine and a red label. Edges spattered red. - Provenance
- Acquired from Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827) by Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 6343). Bought by Edwin J. Beinecke for the Beinecke Library.
- Extent
- ff. i + 141 +i : 265 x 190 (208 x 142) mm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been partially digitized.
- Language
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Latin
French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 406
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Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval France 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
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Guillaume, de Deguileville, active 14th century.
Franciscans - Subject (Topic)
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Manuscripts
Cosmography
Devotional literature
Devotional literature, French
French literature
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval
Theology - Subjects
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Guillaume, de Deguileville, active 14th century
Franciscans > Manuscripts
Cosmography > Early works to 1800
Devotional literature > Early works to 1800
Devotional literature, French
French literature > To 1500
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Theology > Early works to 1800
France > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Le Pelerinage de Vie Humaine. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9734568
- Object ID (OID)
- 2013558
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