Walters Ms. W.141, Guillaume de Digulleville's Le pèlerinage de la vie humaine Le pèlerinage de vie humaine Deguileville, Guillaume de, active 14th century Guillaume de Digulleville Principal cataloger Randall, Lilian M.C. Cataloger Shartrand, Emily Editor Herbert, Lynley Copy editor Dibble, Charles Contributor Brown, Emily Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Noel, William Contributor Schuele, Allyson Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Contributor Toth, Michael B. Contributor Wiegand, Kimber Conservator Owen, Linda Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 This allegorical text written in vernacular verse was inspired by Guillaume de Lorris's and Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose. Composed ca. 1330-1332 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, the Walters' copy contains a frontispiece miniature with a portrait of the author, as well as eighty-three tinted grisaille illustrations. These images are based on models consistent with contemporary thematic choices and contain abundant anecdotal detail, lending character to the text. As of spring 2014 the Institute for the Study of Textual History, Romance Languages in France has been gathering all reproductions of Digulleville's manuscripts. W. 141 is one of the few copies outside of France. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.141 The primary language in this manuscript is French, Old (842-ca.1400). 1r - 93v Le pèlerinage de vie humaine "A ceulz de ceste Region qui niont point de maison" Fol. 1r: Prologue; fols. 1r-35v: Book 1; fols. 36r-64r: Book 2; fols. 64r-80r: Book 3, explicit before a four line rubric accompanying the image on fol. 64r; fols. 80r-93v: Book 4; fol. 93v: "Amen..." Explicits in darker brown ink than main text; text divisions in red through quire 7; names of speakers generally centered, sometimes above illustrations; no original punctuation "Amen/ Explicit le songe de pelerinaige/ de vie humaine" First line centered with a dark brown ink and a larger and more formal hand for the first two words.

Average preparation and selection of medium weight parchment, several corners repaired (eg. fol. 9r lower-left corner)

 Foliation: i+93+i27.0 19.3 22.1 16.2 Front-flyleaf contains a Gruel dealer note describing the book's contents

Quires 1-11: 8 (fols. 1-88); Quire 12: 6, lacking the third folio (fols. 89-93) On versos directly below the left text column

Ruled in lead Littera cursiva formata Frontispiece miniature of author (fol. 1r); tinted grisaille illustrations throughout text, average quality especially toward the end; illuminated initials; borders between columns of text; painted capitals at text divisions; instructions to artists appear as text next to images (eg. fol. 8r), as letters inside images (eg. fol. 33r), and as phrases in the lower left margins (eg. fol. 45r); rubrics in red; text in brown ink Portrait of Author Guillaume de Gigulleville Frontispiece miniature

Average workmanship by same artist of first part of manuscript illustrations

 Grace of God leading Pilgrim Book 1 Tinted grisaille illustration LEFT: Priest baptizing Pilgrim; RIGHT: Grace of God leading Pilgrim Book 1 Tinted grisaille illustration Bishop/Moses before altar Book 1 Tinted grisaille illustration Reason and Bishop/Moses, Sacrament of Marrage Book 1 Tinted grisaille illustration Bishop/Moses tonsuring Book 1 Tinted grisaille illustration Bishop/Moses and Priest Book 1 Tinted grisaille illustration Pilgrim and Reason Book 1 Tinted grisaille illustration Bishop/Moses addressing Pilgrim Book 1 Tinted grisaille illustration Bishop/Moses giving Host Book 1 Tinted grisaille illustration Pilgrim and Reason Book 1 Tinted grisaille illustration LEFT: Pilgrim with Nature kneeling before Grace of God; RIGHT: Bishop/Moses, Charity, Penitence Book 1 Tinted grisaille illustration Priest administering Host Book 1 Tinted grisaille illustration Grace of God shows Host to Pilgrim Book 1 Tinted grisaille illustration Grace of God with Pilgrim takes scrip Book 1 Tinted grisaille illustration Grace of God gives scrip to Pilgrim Book I Tinted grisaille illustration Grace of God gives staff to Pilgrim Book 1 Tinted grisaille illustration TOP: Pilgrim and Grace of God look at armor; BOTTOM: Pilgrim receives shirt-of-mail Book 1 Tinted grisaille illustration Pilgrim receives coat-of-mail from Grace of God Book 1 Tinted grisaille illustration Pilgrim and Grace of God Book 1 Tinted grisaille illustration Pilgrim and Grace of God with sword in belt Book 1 Tinted grisaille illustration Pilgrim in armor with Grace of God Book 1 Tinted grisaille illustration LEFT: Pilgrim points to armor cast on ground; RIGHT: Grace of God leads Memory to be Pilgrim's servant Book 1 Tinted grisaille illustration TOP: Bishop/Moses gives Pilgrim bread; BOTTOM: Pilgrim and Grace of God Book 1 Tinted grisaille illustration LEFT: Memory following Pilgrim; RIGHT: Memory following Pilgrim Book 1 Tinted grisaille illustration Pilgrim and Natural Understanding Book 2 Tinted grisaille illustration Pilgrim, Reason, and Natural Understanding Book 2 Tinted grisaille illustration Pilgrim and Natural Understanding Book 2 Tinted grisaille illustration Pilgrim and Reason with quarrelsome Natural Understanding Book 2 Tinted grisaille illustration Natural Understanding turns back on Pilgrim and Reason Book 2 Tinted grisaille illustration Reason and Pilgrim Book 2 Tinted grisaille illustration Reason separating Pilgrim's soul from body Book 2 Tinted grisaille illustration Reason and Pilgrim discussing armor's weight Book 2 Tinted grisaille illustration

The rubricator misidentifies the Reason as Grace of God in this image as that is who appears in comparative versions of the text

 Reason facing Pilgrim Book 2 Tinted grisaille illustration

The rubricator misidentifies the Reason as Grace of God in this image as that is who appears in comparative versions of the text

 Grace of God and Pilgrim confronted Book 2 Tinted grisaille illustration Pilgrim with Industry and Idleness Book 2 Tinted grisaille illustration Pilgrim with Industry and Idleness Book 2 Tinted grisaille illustration

Same as image on fol. 46v except Pilgrim faces opposite direction

 Grace of God reproves Pilgrim at hedge of Penitence Book 2 Tinted grisaille illustration Sloth with Pilgrim whose foot is caught in the rope of Judas Book 2 Tinted grisaille illustration Sloth strikes Pilgrim in the head with an axe Book 2 Tinted grisaille illustration Sloth leads Pilgrim by rope Book 2 Tinted grisaille illustration Pilgrim with Pride carrying Flattery on her back Book 2 Tinted grisaille illustration Pilgrim watches Envy being ridden by her daughters Treason and Libel Book 2 Tinted grisaille illustration LEFT: Envy, Treason, and Libel attack Pilgrim; RIGHT: Pilgrim and Wrath meet Book 2 Tinted grisaille illustration Memory gives Pilgrim armor Book 2 Tinted grisaille illustration Pilgrim and Avarice Book 3 Tinted grisaille illustration Pilgrim climbs hill Book 3 Tinted grisaille illustration Pilgrim with church and chess board Book 3 Tinted grisaille illustration LEFT: Gluttony and Pilgrim; RIGHT: Pilgrim and Venus Book 3 Tinted grisaille illustration Pilgrim falls as he looses Hope and Faith Book 3 Tinted grisaille illustration Grace of God restores Hope and Faith to Pilgrim Book 3 Tinted grisaille illustration Pilgrim before Virgin and Child Book 3 Tinted grisaille illustration Grace of God and Pilgrim with tears of penitence Book 3 Tinted grisaille illustration Grace of God and Pilgrim with vat of tears Book 3 Tinted grisaille illustration Pilgrim before Sea of the World Book 3 Tinted grisaille illustration LEFT: Pilgrim and Satan fishing; RIGHT: Pilgrim drives away Heresy Book 3 Tinted grisaille illustration Grace of God explains perils to Pilgrim Book 3 Tinted grisaille illustration Pilgrim meets Youth Book 3 Tinted grisaille illustration Pilgrim flying on back of Youth Book 3 Tinted grisaille illustration Youth drops Pilgrim into water Book 3 Tinted grisaille illustration Tribulation pinches Pilgrim with tongs Book 3 Tinted grisaille illustration Pilgrim sees Ship of Religion Book 3 Tinted grisaille illustration Grace of God leads Pilgrim onto Ship of Religion as Fear of God waits on the gangplank Book 3 Tinted grisaille illustration LEFT: Fear of God hits Pilgrim with club; RIGHT: Pilgrim sees Chastity and Voluntary Poverty enter church; Pilgrim sees Obedience and Discipline enter church Book 3 Tinted grisaille illustration LEFT: Pilgrim sees Abstinence before door; Pilgrim sees Prayer before altar; RIGHT: Pilgrim sees Praise of God Book 3 Tinted grisaille illustration TOP: Pilgrim and Abstinence witness dead feeding the living; BOTTOM: Pilgrim and Grace of God Book 3 Tinted grisaille illustration LEFT: Obedience ties rope around Pilgrim's tounge and writs; RIGHT: Pilgrim meets Infirmity and Old Age Book 3 Tinted grisaille illustration Death steps across body of Pilgrim on bed with Grace of God behind his head Book 3 Tinted grisaille illustration

Paris, France; bound by Léon Gruel in the early twentieth century in light tan fabric with a green velvet floral pattern and touches of gold; applied over a binding described in London, Sotheby's, 25 May, 1906 catalogue entry as olive morocco binding with brass corners containing coroneted "R" inscriptions

 Third quarter of the 14th century CE Northeast France (French Flanders) Created in Northeast France (French Flanders), ca. 1370; effaced ownership inscriptions (fol. 93v) can be partially seen under ultraviolet light Inscription from fifteenth century reading "De da.../Cest livre est a moy J..." believed by De Ricci to reference Jacques of Armagnac, duke of Nemours J. and J. Leighton, London, bought manuscript at the Sotheby's auction held on May 25, 1906 Léon Gruel, Paris, early twentieth century; Gruel and Engelmann bookplate with inscription "N 1120" Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased between ca. 1906 and 1931 from Gruel Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest Relevant Works De Ricci, Seymour, and W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935; p. 847, cat. no. 511. Camille, Michael. "The Illustrated Manuscripts of Deguilieville's 'Pèlerinages,' 1330-1426. 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In Le livre de sagesse: supports, médiations, usages: Actes du colloque de Metz (13-15 September 2006). Edited by Nicolas Brucker, 27-41. Bern: Peter Lang Publishing, 2008; pp. 27-32, 34, 36-40. Legaré, Anne-Marie. "Les deux épouses de René d'Anjou et leurs livres." In Splendeur de l'enluminure: Le roi René et les livres. Exhibition Catalogue: Du 3 octobre 2009 au 3 janvier 2010 au Château d’Angers. Edited by Marc-Edouard Gautier and Francois Avril, 59-72. Arles and Paris: Actes Sud, 2010; p. 71. Veysseyre, Géraldine. "Manuscrits à voir, manuscrits à lire, manuscrits lus: Les marginalia du Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine comme indices de sa réception médiévale." In The Pèlerinage Allegories of Guillaume de Deguileville: Tradition, Authority, and Influence. Edited by Marco Nievergelt and Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs Kamath, 48-64. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013; p. 51. 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