La passe solitaire

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Description

Title
La passe solitaire
Creator
Amboise, Catherine d', 1481?-1550
Published / Created
[between 1509 and 1525]
Publication Place
France
Abstract

Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, incomplete, containing the text of a prose allegorical pilgrimage of the soul. The narrator's soul is led by Dame Inspiration to the Fountain of Penitence (Fontaine de penitence); after being washed there, the soul continues her journey toward the Promised Land (Terre de promission) on the Ship of Penitence (Navire de penitence).

Description
In Middle French.
Laid in: autograph letter,signed, from the Liverpool bookseller Jaggard to Allan Heywood Bright, 1896 April 27, concerning the unknown early provenance of the manuscript. With autograph and typed notes by Allan Heywood Bright, 1898 and undated.
Title from ownership inscription by Remy Megret (f80r).
Opening sentence: Les continuelles meditationes de la volubilite et soudaine mutation des creatures raisonnables.
Layout: single columns of 19 lines.
Script: gothic bastarda.
Decoration: 13 large full-color miniatures in architectural frames illustrating various events in the allegorical pilgrimage of the author's soul, guided by Dame Inspiration. The opening miniature is full-page and depicts the author asleep beneath a tree hung with her coat of arms. Other subjects include: the soul, accompanied by Dame Inspiration, begins her pilgrimage to the Fontaine de Penitence f.9; Inspiration explains to the soul what needs to be done in order to reach the Fontaine de Penitence f.11, the soul, carried on the back of Inspiration, flies to the Château de Contention diabolique f.17, Inspiration and the soul meet Raison f.20; the soul enters the Chemin de Crainte de Dieu f.35; souls are cleansed in the Fontaine de Penitence f.47; the soul sets off on her journey to the Terre de Promission f.50v; the company journey to the coast where they find boats awaiting them f.53; the company embark f.58; the company sets off on the Navire de Penitence f.61; the company is attacked by seven other boats f.63; the company is swept up by the Vent de Hypocrisie f.69v.
Provenance
Ex libris Catherine d'Amboise; Remy Megret of the Premonstratensian abbey of Notre Dame de Thenailles in Douay. Previously owned by Allan Heywood Bright. Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Christie's London sale, 16 July 2014, lot 24) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2014.
Extent
80 l.: 235 x 150 mm.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Beinecke MS 1201
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Container / Volume
Box

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Early works to 1800
Illuminations (visual works) France 16th century
Manuscripts, Medieval France 16th century
Manuscripts, Reenaissance France 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material
parchment ;
Resource Type
unspecified
Subject (Geographic)
Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name)
Amboise, Catherine d', 1481?-1550.
Megret, Remy.
Subject (Topic)
Allegories
Devotional literature, French
French prose literature
Illumination of books and manuscripts, French
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance
Manuscripts, Medieval
Repentance
Soul
Women
Conduct of life
Women authors, French
Subjects
Amboise, Catherine d', 1481?-1550
Megret, Remy
Allegories
Devotional literature, French > Early works to 1800
French prose literature > Early works to 1800
Illumination of books and manuscripts, French
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Repentance > Early works to 1800
Soul > Early works to 1800
Women > Conduct of life > Early works to 1800
Women authors, French
France > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Bright, Allan Heywood > Ownership
Megret, Remy > Autograph

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Citation
Catherine d'Amboise, La Passe solitaire. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
12435967
Object ID (OID)
16883014

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