Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 210

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DS ID:

DS4554

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 210

Title:

Le chemin de paradis (The way to paradise)

Author:

Germain, Jean, 1397-1461

Jean Germain WIKIDATA

Place:

Burgundy?, France

Burgundy TGN

Date:

1460-1470

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle French (ca. 1400-1600); Latin

Middle French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+186+iii; 275 x 195 mm bound to 290 x 215 mm; mixed

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Missing leaves

Note:

Written in pencil is the comment, "An extremely important volume. The drawings represent the tapestry which Jean Germain, Bishop of Chalon, had made for his cathedral (? the prologue). It is therefore extremely curious and valuable for the history of early French tapestry. T??." On the back endpaper is written, "Collections sll. i10 ii-xiiii12 xv5
Binding: Eighteenth-century brown calf over pasteboard; "CHEMIN DU PARAD[IS] PAR S. GERMAIN EVESQUE DE CHALONS. MANUSCRIT CURIEUX [P]AR SES MINIATURES DE 1380" stamped in gold on spine; Phillipps label 219 pasted on tail of spine
Layout: One column of twenty to thirty-three lines; frame-ruled in lead; written area: 184 x 107 mm
Script: Bâtarde
Script: Gothic--textualis quadrata
Decoration: Six double-page watercolor illustrations on parchment, depicting the procession of the Church Militant and interspersed to correspond with appropriate sections of the text; six large decorated initials in red, blue, and yellow at the openings of the first two parts (fols. 6r, 42r); large initials in red at the beginning of the remaining parts (fols. 94r, 108r, 142v); smaller...
Related resource: Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, originated by C. U. Faye, continued and edited by W. H. Bond (New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 451, no. 21.
Related resource: Moodey, Elizabeth J., "Unlikely Heroes in Jean Germain's Vision of Orthodoxy," Essays in Medieval Studies 29 (2014): pp. 106-109 (article pp. 103-112).
Provenance: Early inscriptions crossed out (lower margins, fols. 72v and 168r); the name Jehan in lead (lower margin, fol. 77r); Sir Thomas Phillips (stamp on front flyleaf and number MS. 219 on flyleaf, inside front cover, and on label on tail of spine); acquired from H. P. Kraus, New York (cat. 75, no. 39); Free Library of Philadelphia; inscriptions on front endpaper include "160," "140...

Keyword:

Missing leaves

biblical

France

illustrations (layout features)

Theology

Fifteenth century

French (culture or style)

Allegory

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_210.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_210/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia