Book/Printed Material The Overseas Expeditions by the French against the Turks and Other Saracens and Moors Overseas. Passages faiz oultre mer par les François contre les Turcqs et autres Sarrazins et Mores oultre marins
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Title
- The Overseas Expeditions by the French against the Turks and Other Saracens and Moors Overseas.
Other Title
- Passages faiz oultre mer par les François contre les Turcqs et autres Sarrazins et Mores oultre marins
Summary
- Les Passages faiz oultre mer par les François contre les Turcqs et autres Sarrazins et Mores oultre marins (The overseas expeditions by the French against the Turks and other Saracens and Moors overseas), commonly known as Passages d'outremer (The expeditions to outremer), is an illuminated manuscript made in France around 1472-75. It includes 66 miniatures, most likely painted by Jean Colombe (active 1463-98), an illuminator from Bourges. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, Pope Pius II pleaded for the liberation of the Christian holy places in the Middle East. The pope's project never came to fruition, but it revived a certain interest in the Crusades undertaken centuries earlier by the Europeans. In 1472, Louis de Laval, governor of Champagne and advisor to King Louis XI, asked his chaplain and secretary, Sébastien Mamerot, to write a chronicle of the Crusades. The work is a compilation of various stories from the legendary conquest of Jerusalem by Charlemagne to the battle of Nicopolis in 1396 and the siege of Constantinople in 1394-1402. One piece of text was added at a later date to the beginning of the manuscript: the French translation of a letter written by Sultan Bajazed II (circa 1447-1512) to King Charles VIII (1470-98), sent from Constantinople on July 4, 1488 (folio 3 verso), followed by a copy in Latin and Italian (folio 4 recto). The manuscript was owned successively by Diane de Poitiers (1499-1566), Charles-Henri de Clermont-Tonnerre (1571-1640), and, according to the bookplates found in the manuscript, by Cardinal Mazarin (1602-61) before it became a part of the royal library in 1668.
Names
- Bayezid II, Sultan of the Turks, 1447 or 1448-1512 Contributor.
- Chastellain, Georges, 1405?-1475 Author.
- Colombe, Jean, active 1463-1498 Illuminator.
- Mamerot, Sébastien, active 15th century Author.
Created / Published
- [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1472 to 1475]
Headings
- - France
- - Israel--Jerusalem
- - Turkey--Istanbul
- - 800 to 1488
- - Catholic Church
- - Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814
- - Correspondence
- - Crusades
- - Holy Roman Empire
- - Illuminations
- - Legends
- - Letters
- - Miniatures (Illuminations)
- - Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - Original resource extent: 293 folios.
- - Original resource at: National Library of France.
- - Content in French and Italian and Latin.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Source Collection
- Illuminated Manuscripts from Europe
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021668070
Online Format
- compressed data
- image
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Contributor
- Bayezid II, Sultan of the Turks
- Chastellain, Georges
- Colombe, Jean, Active
- Mamerot, Sébastien, Active 15th Century