Accession number
MS B.1
Object title
Chapelet de virginité (MS B.1).
Display Date
ca. 1475.
Created
Loire River Valley, France, ca. 1475.
Binding
19th-century purple morocco.
Credit line
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Description
39 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 232 x 150 mm
Provenance
Jeanne de Laval (1433-98), second wife of Rene d'Anjou, her arms (gules, a lion passant guardant or, tongued and clawed argent) on fol. 39v; Didier Petit, Lyons; his sale, Catalogue de la collection formée par M. Didier Petit à Lyon ..., Paris, 1843, no. 366; Joseph Barrios; bought in 1849 by Bertram, Fourth Earl of Ashburnham (ms. 288); his sale, London, Sotheby's June 10, 1901, lot 100; purchased by Curt F. Bühler in Feb. 1928 from Veuve Belin, Paris.
Notes
Ms. possibly written by Jeanne de Laval's secretary, Jean Migon, and illuminated in the Loire River Valley, France, ca. 1475.
Decoration: 5 illuminated borders and initials depicting the flowers in the 'garland of virginity.'
This rare text is a variant of the Chapelet de Virginité attributed to Pèlerin de Vermandois (f. 1480) (also spelled as Vermendois), see (New York, Morgan Library, Gifts in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary, 1974, p. 15) and a variant text reference (Pèlerin de Vermandois, Le Chapelet de Virginité, 1862).
The Chapelet is discourse on the virtues of spiritual love which uses five flowers from the 'garland of virginity' (lily, viola, rose, marigold and lily-of-the-valley) to symbolize the five virtues of Virginity (Virginity, Humility, Charity/Love, Patience and Faith).
Decoration: 5 illuminated borders and initials depicting the flowers in the 'garland of virginity.'
This rare text is a variant of the Chapelet de Virginité attributed to Pèlerin de Vermandois (f. 1480) (also spelled as Vermendois), see (New York, Morgan Library, Gifts in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary, 1974, p. 15) and a variant text reference (Pèlerin de Vermandois, Le Chapelet de Virginité, 1862).
The Chapelet is discourse on the virtues of spiritual love which uses five flowers from the 'garland of virginity' (lily, viola, rose, marigold and lily-of-the-valley) to symbolize the five virtues of Virginity (Virginity, Humility, Charity/Love, Patience and Faith).
Script
bastarda.
Language
French
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