Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Latin—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Former owner

• Spottiswood, John, 1565-1639 [Browse]
• Pringle, Alexander [Browse]
• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]
• Sweetheart Abbey (New Abbey, Scotland) [Browse]

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Bookseller

• Sotheby's (Firm) [Browse]
• Bernard Quaritch (Firm) [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 27. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Donors' bookplates [Browse]
• Wooden boards [Browse]
• Vellum bindings [Browse]
• Gilt edges [Browse]
• Gauffered edges [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Ribbon markers [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• decorated initials [Browse]
• historiated initials [Browse]
• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]

Medium/​Support

parchment rdamat

Summary note

3 volumes of a 4-volume Bible produced in France (the third volume is not extant), containing several of the standard prefaces with certain exceptions. Twelve leaves from the New Testament volume were removed for their initials.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from printed catalog.
• Two line drawings of unicorns? (vol. 2, vol. 444v).
• Collation: Parchment ; fol. ii (modern parchment) + 407 + ii (modern parchment), ii (modern parchment) + 444 + ii (modern parchment), ii (modern parchment) + 371 + ii (modern parchment) ; modern foliation in pencil.
• Layout: 22-23 lines per page in two columns ; ruled.
• Description: Chapter numbers and running titles in alternating blue and red
• Decoration: Northern French, possibly Picardy or Artois, ca. 1260s or 1270s. Contains historiated and pen-flourished initials throughout the three volumes and the Balliol coat of arms added to an initial in the preface to Joshua (vol. 1, fol. 326r).
• Origin: Probably produced in Northern France (Picardy or Artois) in the 13th century.

Binding note

Later binding. England, late 19th century? Parchment over wooden boards (8 mm thick). Edges of textblock gauffered and gilt. Multi-colored endbands. 2 green silk bookmarks in each volume.

Language note

Latin;

Script

Textualis precissa

Provenance

Owned from the late 13th century until probably 1560 by the Sweetheart Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in Kirkcudbright, Scotland. Intermediate provenance unknown. In 1624 owned by Sir John Spottiswoode, Archbishop of St Andrews and then passed through the Cunynghams of Caprington to Alexander Pringle of Yair, Selkirkshire, who consigned it to Sotheby's London in 1895. Purchased by Bernard Quaritch who sold it in 1909 to Robert Garrett, of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897. His gift to Princeton University in 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift; of Robert Garrett, Princeton Class of 1897, 1942.

Publications about

Online description and images of miniatures available in two subscription-based resources: ArtStor (www.artstor.org) and the Index of Christian Art (http://ica.princeton.edu/).

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, vol. 1, pages 8-11.

Place name(s)

France

Other title(s)

Biblia latina a manu scotica scripta

OCLC

1091907748

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