Details

Subject(s)

• World history—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Great Britain—History—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, English (Middle)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Translator

• Trevisa, John, -1402 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Bookseller

• Bernard Quaritch (Firm) [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 151 [Browse]

Notes

• 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 note

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