Details

Subject(s)

• Christian poetry, English (Middle) [Browse]
• Love poetry, English (Middle) [Browse]
• Christian ethics—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Courtly love—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, English (Middle)—England [Browse]
• Manuscripts, English (Middle)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Bookseller

• Bernard Quaritch (Firm) [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 136 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre

Poetry [Browse]

Notes

• Title from printed catalog.
• Script: Anglicana formata.
• Decoration: The prologue and books 1-8 open with a 2- to 6-line blue initial with red penwork: fols. 1r, 7v, 55v, 70r, 87v, 130r, 141v, 172r. Divisions within books marked with similar 1- to 2-line initials.

Binding note

England, early 19th century. Diced Russia leather of tan color over pasteboard, rebacked.

Rights and reproductions note

In Middle English; prefatory matter in Latin.

Provenance

Garrett MS. 136 is of unknown early provenance. Various unidentified dealer's markings appear on fols. i verso and ii recto. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript from the London antiquarian bookseller Bernard Quaritch on 1 October 1905. His gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 313-315.

Cite as

Garrett MS. 136, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1099489325