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Title

Traictie des VII fruis de tribulacion

Other related names

• Heiss, Joseph-Louis baron d', former owner, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/170712775)
• Mackenzie, William, 1758-1828, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/44186515)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

18
(Philadelphia, United States, Library Company)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 18
• Call_Accession_number: Ms. 18 875.Q

Publisher

Library Company

Language

Middle French (ca. 1400-1600); Latin

Origin

Place

France

Summary

This late-fifteenth-century manuscript contains an unpublished devotional text, the "Traictie des VII fruis de tribulacion," written by a member of the Celestine order. This late-fifteenth-century manuscript contains an unpublished devotional text, the "Traictie des VII fruis de tribulacion," written by a member of the Celestine order. It contains a single opening miniature representing a kneeling layman in prayer before Saint Michael, Saint James (or possibly Saint Roch), and a bishop saint. The unidentified coat-of-arms below has been erased and crudely re-drawn. The text is lightly annotated by a later, seventeenth-century hand, and contains a table of contents in a similar script (fol. 77r). An added Latin devotional poem in a non-professional hand is present on folio 78. There is an illegible early ownership note on the recto of the parchment flyleaf as well as an early inscription with the date of 1538. The manuscript was subsequently owned by Joseph-Louis Baron d'Heiss (ambassador of the Palatine Elector in Paris), and may have been purchased from the latter's sale in 1785 directly by William Mackenzie of Philadelphia. It contains a single opening miniature representing a kneeling layman in prayer before Saint Michael, Saint James (or possibly Saint Roch), and a bishop saint. The unidentified coat-of-arms below has been erased and crudely re-drawn. The text is lightly annotated by a later, seventeenth-century hand, and contains a table of contents in a similar script (fol. 77r). An added Latin devotional poem in a non-professional hand is present on folio 78. There is an illegible early ownership note on the recto of the parchment flyleaf as well as an early inscription with the date of 1538. The manuscript was subsequently owned by the Baron d'Hess (apparently Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel), and may have been purchased from the latter's sale in 1785 directly by William Mackenzie of Philadelphia.

Notes

• Rubric on fol. 1r: "Cy est ung traictie des vii. fruis de tribulacion fait par ung religieux de l'ordre des célestins pour consoler les désolez."
   

Extent

I+79+ii; 154 x 115 mm bound to 163 x 122 mm

Foliation

Early foliation in ink to fol. 21r, upper right corner; modern foliation in pencil to fol. 8r, lower right corner

Collation

1 (9, +1), 2-9 (8), 10 (6)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Blue half morocco with marbled paper sides, tooled spine with "875" and Yi2" labels, "TRAITE DE PIETE" gold stamped, "LIBRARY CO. PHILA." stamped

Layout

One column of twenty lines, ruled in red ink; written area: 101 x 67 mm

Decoration

Single opening miniature representing a kneeling layman in prayer before Saint Michael, Saint James, and a bishop saint; illuminated initials at the start of each chapter

Script

Bâtarde

Provenance

• Early ownership inscription on recto of upper parchment flyleaf: "Ce livre est a madame le .... [rubbed] dame mons[ieur] le grant mestre et.... [indistinct]; inscription with large initial in display font on same page: "L'an mil cinq cens et trente huit"; Baron d'Heiss (ambassador of the Palatine Elector in Paris), Paris (his anonymous sale, Paris, 7 March 1785, lot 35); William Mackenzie, Philadelphia; bequeathed to the Loganian Library in 1828, later the Library Company of Philadelphia, according to the Loganian accession book
   

Related resources

• De Bure, Catalogue des livres rare et précieux de M. .... (d'Hess), Paris, 7 March 1785, lot 35
• Faye, C.U., continued and edited by W.H. Bond, Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 469, no. 18.

Keywords

• Private devotional text
• 15th century
• French
• Illumination
• France
• Devotion
• Theology

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• Unnumbered recto — Ownership inscriptions; inscription from 1538
• fol. 1r — Traictie des VII fruis de tribulacion; incipit: Siccome dit l'appostre nous n'avons pas en ce monde... [fol. 1r]; explicit: ...la nous doint en toutes nos adversitez, le père, et le filz, et le benoist saint esperit. A.M.E.N. [fol. 77r]
• fol. 77r — Table of contents, 17th century
• fol. 78r — Latin devotional prayer, Circa passionem domini; incipit: Recogita qualiter dominus septem horis pro te passus sit... [fol. 78r]; explicit: Per eternam gloriam in celis. amen. [fol. 78v]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Loganian Library
• fol. 1r — Large miniature, Donor in prayer before Saints Michael, James (or Roch), and an unidentified bishop saint
• fol. 1r — Coat-of-arms, unidentified
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 2r — Manicule
• fol. 12v — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 21r — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 29v — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 36v — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 39r — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 44r — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 60r — Illuminated initial