- Author
- Higden, Ranulf, -1364 [Browse]
- Uniform title
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- Format
- Book
- Language
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- English
- English, Middle (1100-1500)
- Published/Created
- [London, England] ; [between 1400 and 1425]
- Description
- iii, 212, iii : parchment ; 450 x 300 mm
Details
- Subject(s)
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- Translator
- Donor
- Bookseller
- Related name
- Form/Genre
- Manuscripts—England—15th century
- Notes
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- Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon in the Middle English translation by John Trevisa.
- Script: Anglicana formata; written by Scribe Delta.
- Decoration: Books open with a 5- to 6-line painted initial with full floriate borders of bar frames, colored vines, and spray-work, of burnished gold, green, blue, pink, and magenta.
- Binding note
- England, early 19th century; diced Russia leather over pasteboard.
- Language(s)
- Text in Middle English.
- Provenance
- Garrett Ms. 151 was written apparently in London by Scribe Delta (see Script) in the first quarter of the 15th century, but its early provenance is unknown. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript on 15 July 1925 from the London antiquarian bookseller Bernard Quaritch. Garrett donated the manuscript to the Princeton University Library in 1942.
- Source acquisition
- Gift; of Robert Garrett, Princeton Class of 1897, 1942.
- References
- Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 348-353
- Cite as
- Garrett MS. 151, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
- Other format(s)
- Also available in an electronic version.
- In
- Robert Garrett Collection
- Other views
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