Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Lyon (France) -- History.
Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Lyon (France).
Apparitions -- France -- Lyon.
Monasticism and religious orders for women -- France -- History -- 16th century.
Monasticism and religious orders for women.
History.
Apparitions.
France.
France -- Lyon.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

Biography/History:

Aumonier to Francis I, King of France; the second work in this volume is addressed to Francis I.

Summary:

18th-century manuscript copy of a work published in 1528 with an additional (unpublished?) work by the same author dated 1525. Describes apparitions, the torment of young religious by devils and exorcism in the abbey. Also includes an inventory of the sacristy of the Abbey de St. Pierre de Lyon dated 24 September 1503. The second work describes apparitions of sister Alix de Tessieu to members of the religious community. Manuscript leaf with prayers for vespers and lauds in Latin pasted inside front cover.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from illustrated title page (f. 1r); Titles for second work from title page (f. 37r), and caption title (f. 38r). Attribution from colophon (f. 34v) and from the introduction to the second work (f.38r-39v)). Date for the second work, 1525, (f. 39r).
Pagination: Paper, ii (contemporary paper) + 54 + ii (contemporary paper); [ii], 1-66, [viii], 1-27, [i], contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners; [1-52], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. References in this record are to modern foliation.
Script: Written in a cursive script, with the first work in the hand of Eholin Vautier and the second work in a different hand.
Decoration: Title pages illustrated with pen and ink borders (f. 1r, 37r); pen and ink design (f. 37v).
Binding: 18th-century calf.
Origin: Written in Lyon in 1712 (f. 34v).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Freeman Fine Arts, 1997.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 637

Contributor:

Alix, de Tessieu, soeur
Francis I, King of France, 1494-1547, addressee.

Contains:

Histoire de soeur Alix de Tessieu religieuse de St. Pierre les nonnains de Lyon.
Histoire de la soeur Alix de Tesieux religieuse de Sainct Pierre de Lyon avant la reforme de l'ordre de Sainct Benôit.

OCLC:

209763342