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Title

La merveilleuse histoire de l'esprit qui depuis n'agueres cest apparu au monastere des religieuses de Saint Pierre de Lyon

Authors

• Montalembert, Adrien de
• Alix, de Tessieu, soeur

Other related names

• Francis I, King of France, 1494-1547, recipient

Call number

Ms. Codex 637
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2369328
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2369328

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

1712

Place

Lyon

Summary

18th-century manuscript copy of a work published in 1528 with an additional (unpublished?) work by the same author dated 1525. Describes apparitions, the torment of young religious by devils and exorcism in the abbey. Also includes an inventory of the sacristy of the Abbey de St. Pierre de Lyon dated 24 September 1503. The second work describes apparitions of sister Alix de Tessieu to members of the religious community. Manuscript leaf with prayers for vespers and lauds in Latin pasted inside front cover.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from illustrated title page (f. 1r); Titles for second work from title page (f. 37r), and caption title (f. 38r). Attribution from colophon (f. 34v) and from the introduction to the second work (f.38r-39v)). Date for the second work, 1525, (f. 39r).
   

Extent

52 leaves : 191 x 142 (140 x 105) mm. bound to 196 x 150 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii (contemporary paper) + 54 + ii (contemporary paper); [ii], 1-66, [viii], 1-27, [i], contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners; [1-52], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. References in this record are to modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century calf.

Decoration

Title pages illustrated with pen and ink borders (f. 1r, 37r); pen and ink design (f. 37v).

Script

Written in a cursive script, with the first work in the hand of Eholin Vautier and the second work in a different hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Freeman Fine Arts, 1997.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church.--Archdiocese of Lyon (France)--History
• Apparitions--France--Lyon
• Monasticism and religious orders for women--France--History--16th century

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover (Bifolium closed) — Pasted manuscript leaf, Inside front cover
• Inside fron cover (Bifolium open) — Pasted manuscript leaf, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Decorated title page, f. 1r
• fol. 37r — Decorated title page, f. 37r
• fol. 37v — Decoration, f. 37v