Le Château périlleux.

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Robert de Saint-Martin, frère, -1388.

Language:

French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Subjects (All):

• Jesus Christ--Passion.
• Jesus Christ.
• Passion of Jesus Christ.
• Asceticism--Early works to 1800.
• Asceticism.
• Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.
• Devotional literature, French.
• Monastic and religious life--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
• Monastic and religious life.
• History.
• Spirituality--Catholic Church.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, French -- 15th century.
• Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

• Formerly owned by J. A. J. Delignières de Bommy d'Abbéville (bookplate, inside upper cover; stamp, f. 1r); M. Victor Advielle d'Arras 1889 (bookplate, flyleaf i recto; stamp, f. 1r, f. 95v).
• Purchased, 1952.

Physical Description:

101 leaves : paper ; 202 x 141 (134 x 88) mm bound to 208 x 145 mm

Place of Publication:

[Northern France], [between 1450 and 1460]

Language Note:

Middle French.

Summary:

Two works written in one hand: A copy of Frère Robert's Château périlleux, (f. 1r-85v), and a second work, Le Pelerinage de Damoiselle Sapience, (f. 86r-95v). Account of the Passion of Jesus Christ is interpolated in first work (f. 51r-63v).

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title from incipit (f. 1r).
• First work, incipit (f. 1r): Cy commence le chateau perilleux compose par ung devot religieux nomme Robert; (f. 85v)...Explicit Le chastiau perilleux.
• Second work, incipit (f. 86r): Damoiselle Sapience sen ala oultre mer en pelerinage par devotion...
• Attribution to Robert de Saint-Martin made by Sister Marie Brisson.
• Foliation: Paper, iii (modern paper) + 95 + iii (modern paper); [1-95]; 19th-century[?] foliation in ink, upper right recto.
• Layout: Written in 28 long lines; ruled in ink; prickings visible.
• Script: Written in bâtarde script by a single hand.
• Decoration: 5-line puzzle initial in red and blue with red penwork ornamentation (f. 1r); 2-line red or blue initials throughout; capitals touched in yellow; red or blue paragraph marks; red used for underlining.
• Binding: Half calf dated 1813.
• Origin: Written in northern France between 1450 and 1460 (Zacour-Hirsch).
• Moderate to heavy oxidation of ink at the end, particularly f. 86-95.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 56 (Ms. French 10).

Publications about:

First text is discussed by Sister Marie Brisson, Un dix-huitième manuscrit du Chastel perilleux, Romania 97 (1976), pp. 384-395. See also her dissertation, A Critical Edition and Study of Frère Robert (Chartreux) Le Chastel Perilleux (1971), published in Analecta Cartusiana, Univ. Salzburg, 1974.

Cited as:

Robert de Saint-Martin, Le château périlleux (Ms. Codex 660). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Contains:

• Pelerinage de damoiselle sapience.
• Damoiselle sapience sen ala oultre mer en pelerinage.

OCLC:

155985339

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