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| Keywords: British Library Additional 37049 22r St Hugh.png British Library Additional 37049 an illustrated Yorkshire Carthusian Religious Miscellany The four drawings have been described as follows The four drawings depict the rôle of St Hugh Bishop of Grenoble in the founding of the mother-house of the Carthusian Order the Grand Chartreuse From p 25 of the cited source In the first image St Hugh both mitred and nimbed sits on his episcopal throne dreaming about the seven stars These fall to the ground dividing the visionary bishop in the visual syntax of the picture from Bruno in a doctor's cap and his six companions In the next scene Hugh relates the dream to the seven who kneel now in front of him He then directs the group to a wilderness place the desolation of which is indicated by a forest Finally the new Carthusian monks arrayed in their distinctive white robes enter the monastery they have built while the bishop presides ”whether metaphorically or literally is unclear ”in the background Quoted from Jessica Brantley Reading in the Wilderness Private Devotion and Public Performance in Late Medieval England University Of Chicago Press 2007 ISBN 0226071324 p 19 Transcription of the first twelve lines of the poem below the drawings taken from Jessica Brantley Reading in the Wilderness Private Devotion and Public Performance in Late Medieval England University Of Chicago Press 2007 ISBN 0226071324 p 19 <poem> At þe begynyng of þe chartirhows god dyd schewe To þe byschop of gracionapolitane saynt hewe Seuen sternes goyng in wildernes to þat place Wher now þe ordir of þe chartirhows abydyng has And when þes sternes at þat place had bene At þe bischop's fete þai felle al bedene; And aftyr þis visione þe sothe for to saye þe doctor Bruno and sex felows withouten delay Come to þis holy bischop cownsel to take To lyf solytary in wildernes and þis warld to forsake And at his feete mekly downe þai al felle Praying hymn of informacioun and his cownsell to telle </poem> James Hogg ed An Illustrated Yorkshire Carthusian Religious Miscellany British Library London Additional MS 37049 Volume 3 The Illustrations 1981 Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg A-5020 Salzburg Austria p 25 Unknown Carthusian monk Late 15th century PD-old-100 Carthusian miscellany 1460-1500 - BL Add MS 37049 Saint-Hugues de Châteauneuf Grande-Chartreuse monastery Bishops in art Bruno of Cologne Carthusians in art | ||||
