Book/Printed Material The Pilgrimage of Human Life. Le pèlerinage de la vie humaine
About this Item
Title
- The Pilgrimage of Human Life.
Other Title
- Le pèlerinage de la vie humaine
Summary
- The allegorical text of Le pèlerinage de la vie humaine (The pilgrimage of human life) written in vernacular verse was inspired by the 13th-century French poem Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun. Composed circa 1330-32 by Guillaume de Digulleville, with a second recension in 1355, this text represents the earlier of the two versions. Produced in northeast France in 1370, this copy from the Walters Art Museum (W.141) contains a frontispiece miniature with a portrait of the author, as well as 83 tinted grisaille illustrations. These images are based on models consistent with contemporary thematic choices and contain abundant anecdotal detail, lending character to the text. The Institute for Textual Research and History, at the National Center for Scientific Research in France has been gathering all reproductions of Digulleville's manuscripts. The version shown here is one of the few copies outside of France. The text consists of a prologue and four books. It is written in brown ink, with rubrics in red, in littera cursiva formata script, and in two columns to the page, often with borders between them. There are painted capitals at text divisions and an illuminated capital on the frontispiece. The names of speakers are generally centered, sometimes above the illustrations. There is no original punctuation. The illustrations are of average quality, especially toward the end, and are contained in yellow frames with vine leaves. Instructions to artists appear as text next to images (for example, on folio 8 recto), as letters inside images, and as phrases in the lower-left margins (for example on folio 45 recto).
Names
- Guillaume, de Deguileville, active 14th century Author.
Created / Published
- France : [publisher not identified], 1370.
Headings
- - France
- - 1330 to 1332
- - Allegory
- - Death
- - French poetry
- - Heaven
- - Illuminations
- - Literature, Medieval
- - Miniatures (Illuminations)
- - Poetry
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - "Walters Ms. W.141"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
- - Original resource extent: 93 folios : parchment ; 19.3 x 27 centimeters.
- - Original resource at: Walters Art Museum.
- - Content in Old French (842-ca. 1400).
- - 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
- 2021668186
Online Format
- compressed data
- image