Manchester. The John Rylands Library, French MS 2

Source

Manchester Digital Collections

Library

The John Rylands Library

Shelfmark

• French MS 2

Biblissima authority file

• https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q248495

Language

• Middle French

Title

• Oeuvres (Pelerinaige de la vie humane)

Agent

• Preferred form

  • Guillaume de Digulleville (1295?-1380?)

  Role

  • Author

  Original form

  • Guillaume, de Deguileville, 1295-1359
  • Deguileville, Guillaume de

  Other form

  • Guillaume de Digulleville (1295?-1380?)
  • Guillaume de Digulleville
  • GUILLERMUS DE DEGUILEVILLA
  • Guillaume de Deguilleville
  • Guillaume de Digulleville 1295?-1380?
  • Guillaume de Deguileville‏
  • Guillaume, de Deguileville, 14th cent.
  • Guillaume, de Déguilleville
  • Guillaume de Deguileville
  • Guillaume de Déguileville 1295-1360
  • Author: Guillaume, de Déguileville
  • Guillaume, de Déguileville, 1295-1360
  • Guillaume Deguilleville
  • Guillaume <de Déguileville>
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  • https://portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/43093/pdata4a76f5901deb3655f58d7e39fb807c661a1f23e8

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q6316

• Role

  • Former owner

  Original form

  • Marguerite Chenbellain

• Preferred form

  • James Ludovic Lindsay (comte de Crawford, 1847-1913)

  Role

  • Former owner

  Original form

  • Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847-1913

  Other form

  • Lindsay, James Ludovic, Earl (1847-1913)
  • James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford
  • Lindsay, James Ludovic (1847-1913)
  • James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), peer and collector
  • James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford
  • James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, 1847-1913
  • Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of, 1847-1913
  • James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford 1847-1913
  • James Ludovic Lindsay, 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
  • James Ludovic Lindsay 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
  • Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
  • James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford of Haigh Hall
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  • https://portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/43093/pdataed4314ddb224663282640f87bfd9c67c4121155b

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q8190

Description

• Extent:
  252 folios (ii+ 249 +i) Leaf height: 323 mm, width: 250 mm.
  Binding:
  

  16th century French binding. Wooden boards covered with stamped brown leather and bosses.

  
  Decoration:
  The decoration throughout is very good French work of the period and shows the influence of Burgundian artists, possibly related to those of the Master of the Berry Apocalypse (Meiss, 1974, p370.)
  

  Rubrication

  The incipts and explicits are marked throughout.
  

  Initials

  There are finely ornamented initials throughout the text.
  

  Miniatures

  176 coloured miniatures, column width is 80 mm and taking up 6-11 lines of text.
  Acquisition:
  

  Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands from James Ludovic Lindsay 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford. Bequeathed by Rylands to the John Rylands Library.

  
  Layout:
  

  Double columns, 39 lines of text.

  
  Collation:
  Quires 1-21⁸
  Quire 22⁶ (folios 169-74)
  Quires 23-30⁸ (folios 175-238)
  Quire 31⁶
  Quire 32⁶ wants 6, blank.
  
  Catchwords in lettre batarde can be found in the lower, inner margin of the verso of the final leaf of each quire as far as 168v and then in current cursiva.

  Secundo folio: Maintes

  
  Script:
  

  Written in letter batarde by one hand.

  
  Data Source(s):
  Description based on Moses Tyson, Hand-List of the Collection of the French and Italian Manuscripts in The John Rylands Library (1930), pp.569-70 and on N.R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, III, Lampeter - Oxford (Oxford, 1983), p.431.
  Subject(s):
  Christianity; Poetry; French literature
  Abstract:
  

  The 'Pelerinaige de la vie humane' of Guillame de Deguilleville, Cistercian monk and writer, with many very fine colour illustrations in a French style. This allegorical text written in vernacular verse was inspired by Guillaume de L'orris's and Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose.

  
  Material:
  Vellum
  Provenance:
  

  Marguerite Chenbellain, widow of Etienne Bourcier gifted the manuscript to her neice, a nun of the Franciscan convent of Auxonne, to go to the convent after her death. As detailed in the inscription on 249r .

  Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847-1913

  
  Additions:
  Folio 249, this note is a later addition.
  Technique(s):
  Handwriting
  Medium:
  Ink

Place

• Preferred form

  • Burgundy (France)

  Original form

  • Burgundy

  Other form

  • Bourgogne (?)
  • Bourgogne
  • France (Bourgogne ?)
  • France (Bourgogne)
  • Burgund (IV)
  • Burgund
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  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q28252

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License

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Digitisation

• https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/view/MS-FRENCH-00002

Manifest URL

• https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/iiif/MS-FRENCH-00002