A Guide to Mental Pilgrimage: Paris, Bibliotheque de L'Arsenal Ms. 212

Abstract

A discussion of a 15th-century manuscript (Ms. 212) in the Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal, Paris. The manuscript is written in late-15th-century Latin libraria script on unruled vellum and features many illustrations. The text corroborates and promulgates the sites in the Holy Land at which pilgrims could obtain plenary indulgences, according to the researches of the Franciscan Christophorus da Varese, who certified nine full indulgences in Jerusalem; the places he lists correspond closely to those mentioned in the manuscript. The manuscript also functions as a book of private devotion, as a guide to mental pilgrimage. Its text and pictorial style suggest it was copied in the second half of the 15th century along the Rhine in Germany. The writer describes the folios sequentially, in order to discuss the text-image combinations that produce a pictorial pilgrimage experience.

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