The Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt
Paris, Bibl. nat., MS Fr
19093
© Carl F. Barnes, Jr., 2001
Folio Subjects, Top to Bottom 1r Miscellaneous / Felibien
Inscription / Saint-Germain-des-Pres Number 1v "Preface" / Seated Apostles
/ Man and
Woman / Tumbler (Salome?) 2r Villard, who went to Hungary
/ Snail 2v Crucifixion 3r Later Copy of 2v / later
Pilaster 3v Pride / Humility 4r Bear / Swan / Architectural
Motif (Heavenly Jerusalem?) 4v Ecclesia 5r Perpetual Motion Device 5v Leaf Faces / Leaf Rinceau
/ Leaves 6r Tomb of a Saracen 6v Horologe / Dragon 7r Lectern 7v Insects / Labyrinth 8r Crucifixion Group / later
"Greek" Inscription, date 1533 8v Two Mounted Knights 9r Gamblers / Tantalus Cup
/ Handwarmer 9v Laon Tower Plan / Turret
/ Bearded Head 10r Laon Tower Elevation 10v Virgin and Child / Reims
Nave Aisle Window 11r Seated Christ / Dragon
on Foliate Motif 11v Standing Nude beside Altar 12r Prostitute who appeared
before Solomon 12v Seated Knight / Bishop
/ Magus pointing at a Star 13r Unidentified (Joseph and
Brothers? Christ before Caiphias?) 13v Deposition / Lion and
Ox Evangelist Symbols 14r Seated Knight with Falcon
and Lady 14v Wrestlers / Cistercian
Squares Church Plan / Cambrai Choir Plan 15r Plan "devised" by Villard
and Pierre de Corbie / Meaux Choir Plan 15v Hungarian (Pilis?) Paving
Tiles / Pier Plan / Chartres West Rose 16r Lausanne South Transept
Rose / Seated Figure (Moses removing Sandals?) 16v Majestas Domini 17r Vaucelles Choir Plan /
Prone Sleeping Apostle 17v Roofing Schemes / Sconce 18r Bearded Head / Beginning
of Geometrical Figures 18v Geometrical Figures 19r Geometrical Figures 19v Geometrical Figures, including
"Face in the Square" 20r "By this means one . .
." (Palimpsest later than Villard) 20v "By this means one . .
." (Palimpsest later than Villard) 21r "By this means one . .
." (Palimpsest later than Villard) 21v Wheel of Fortune / Two
later Recipes (Waterproofing / Depilatory) 22r Leaf Faces / Standing
and Seated Nudes 22v Carpentry Devices 23r Carpentry Devices 23v Seated Sleeping Apostle
/ Soldier Mounting a Horse 24r Lion Training 24v Frontal Lion / Porcupine 25r Seated King (Solomon?) 25v Standing Christ with Disk
/ Archer and Spearman 26r Parakeets / Man playing
a Violin / Dog / Woman with Bird / Dog 26v Three Scenes of Lion Killing 27r Gladiator(?) and Lion
/ Martyrdom of Sts. Cosmas and Damian 27v Two Side Views of Choir
Stalls / Christ (?) Blessing 28r Prophet with Scroll /
Apostle (St. John the Evangelist?) 28v Flagellation of Christ
/ Arrest of Christ 29r Side View of Choir Stall 29v Man in Chlamys 30r Plan of a Trebuchet 30v Reims Radiating Chapel
Interior 31r Reims Chapel Exterior 31v Reims Nave Interior and
Exterior Elevations 32r Reims Pier Plans and Templates 32v Reims Choir Buttresses 33r Cannabis Elixir Recipe
/ Flower Color Preserver Recipe 33v J. Mancel Comment (15th
Century) that "there are 41 leaves in the book" Revised 23 February 2005