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Title

Journal de sainct voyage pour visiter le sainct sepulcre

Authors

• Mésenge, Pierre, ?-ca. 1521 (http://viaf.org/viaf/64147423043144880831)

Other related names

• Bolongaro, Pietro, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/14296785)
• Johnes, Thomas, 1748-1816, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/62351038)
• Gordan, Phyllis Walter Goodhart, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/64131789)
• Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/78699777)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 13
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms13.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Middle French (ca. 1400-1600); Latin

Origin

Place

Rouen, France

Summary

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.

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)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords in lower center margin, verso; some lost due to trimming

Binding

Dutch seventeenth-century gold-tooled parchment

Layout

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

Decoration

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

Script

Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata

Provenance

• 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
   

Keywords

• 16th century
• French
• France
• Illumination
• Geography

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Preface
• fol. 2v — Journal de sainct voyage pour visiter le sainct sepulcre; incipit: En l'an de grace mil cinq cens et sept le huitiesme jour d'auril apres pasques je pierre mesenge presbytre chanoine de Rouen . . . [fol. 2v]; explicit: Et de la a laide de dieu nous en retournasmes en france chascun en sa maison. Et feusmes de retour en ceste ville de Rouen le vingtiesme jour de decembre en l'an dessusd. [fol. 66v]
• fol. 10r — De candye
• fol. 24v — Du sainct sepulcre de n[ost]re seigneur
• fol. 26r — De la disposition de toute leglise en general
• fol. 26v — Du mont de calvaire
• fol. 40r — De leglise de bethleem
• fol. 42r — De bethleem
• fol. 49v — De iherico
• fol. 54v — De la cite de damas
• fol. 55r — De la cite de ierusalem et de la maniere de vivre et des h[ab]itans dicelle
• fol. 56v — Du temple salomon
• fol. 59r — Du Retour de iherusalem
• fol. 61v — De la cite de famagosse
• fol. 62r — De nycossie
• fol. 65r — De la cite de corffou

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Phyllis Walter Goodhart
• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Bryn Mawr College Library, "The Gift of Mrs. John Dozier Gordan, Jr."
• fol. 1r — Illuminated partial border
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial P