VOYAGE EN TERRE SAINTE GACHI JEHAN MANUSCRIT... Lot 29

VOYAGE EN TERRE SAINTE GACHI JEHAN MANUSCRIT probably autograph of a Voyage en Terre Sainte, 1532; small volume in-4 (200 x 145 mm) of 360 pages on 180 paper pages (beginning and end missing; first page browned and partly erased with missing corners; upper half of last leaf missing; some pages missing); lower board of original vellum binding only preserved; placed in an old skin binding. of the last leaf is missing; a few pages are missing); bottom board of original vellum binding only preserved; placed in an antique stamped sow skin binding with remains of clasps; modern cardboard slipcase. Exceptional unpublished manuscript of the account of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the early 16th century, illustrated with drawings. The minor friar Jehan GACHI, native of Cluses in Savoy, doctor in theology, was guardian of the convent of the Cordeliers of Beaune; he was later (1539) father provincial of the Franciscans of Burgundy; he is the author of a new Trialogue containing the expression of the errors of Martin Luther, the grievances of the ecclesiastical Hierarchy and the triumphs of Invincible Truth (1524); last confessor of the Poor Clares of Geneva, expelled from this city, he rhymed a pamphlet The Deploration of the City of Genefve. He left for the Holy Land in the spring of 1532. In Venice, he met in May Denis Possot, a clergyman from Coulommiers, who was making the same pilgrimage; they therefore made the journey together, which is confirmed by Possot's published account (Le Voyage en Terre Sainte composé par Maître Denis Possot et achevé par Messire Charles Philippe Seigneur de Champarmoy et de Grandchamp, published by R. Chaudière in 1536). The manuscript begins when the travelers arrive in Ferrara. On May 7 they were in Venice; Gachi devoted a good twenty pages to it, marveling at the number and magnificence of the churches. They left on May 14 aboard the Sancta Maria, loaded with weapons for Famagusta, in company of the provender of Cyprus Stampoulo, and of the governor of Zante Barbarigo; they sailed along the coasts of Istria then of Albania and Morea. On June 1, they are in Jacinte (Zante), where Angelo Barbarigo makes his entry (Gachi describes the ceremony). On June 14 they stopped in Cyprus, from where they left on June 21, to arrive in Japhe (Jaffa) on June 27 and in Rame (Ramla) on July 1, and to enter Jerusalem on July 2 "at sunset"; they were lodged in the convent of the "Mount of Sion". July 4: "Sensuyt the first day [...] peregrination to the torrent of Cedron, valley of Jehoshaphat, Bethany and mount Dolyves and contains xxxiiii stations"... "... The second day, the fifth of July, containing the pilgrimages made to the very important city of Betleem from the holy crescent and the place of the nativity of Nre Sgr de laparition des Anges to the shepherds of the three Roix Sepulchre sainct Jerosme de leglise S. Catherine's church and other places in and around Alenvyron and contains this day xxvi stations "... ". The third day containing the visitacion of the mountains of Judea of the maysons of Zacharie where was made the visitacion our lady by it conpose the magnificat and the nativite S. Jehan baptiste and the first desert of his penitence and the place where the wood of the holy cross was grown and the first entrance of the holy sepulchre of our Lord ".... "The fourth day contains the visit of the Holy Sepulchre of our Lord of the Mount of Calvary and of the other holy places enclosed in the very great Church of the Holy predict sepulchre"... On July 7, Gachi celebrates mass "above the Holy Sepulchre"; detailed report of the ceremony where two gentlemen are made knights of the Holy Sepulchre; visit of "all the other places inside the said church" .... Etc. "The xth day [July 13] mentions the residence in the temple of the Holy Sepulchre...". La treziesme Journee [15 July] contenant les stations faictes en Ebron et lenvyron ". Gachi then indicates : " Remainders still to go to visit Galilee where we had well deliberate to go but for the fact that there was great danger for the Arabs and we were very small number of pilgrims could not go because it required too much money " (he draws up however the list of the twenty stations to be made in Galilee). He then explains at length the thirteen "nations and sects" living in Jerusalem, their rites and customs, their alphabets... : Greeks, Jacobites, Surians, Nestorians, Armenians, Georgians, Abbasins or Indians, Maronites, Nubians or Jamenians, Biduins or Madiamians, Morosabites, Jews, then " The XIIIth nation is the one that holds and unjustly draws the holy land it is the dampnable nation of the Saracens payens and mahometists which how forceaulx live lubberly and have aultant of women that it can nourish and are infamous sodomites "... " Sensuit le retour de nos pelerinaige de la terre saincte". They leave Jerusalem on July 16. Diary of the