Details

Subject(s)

• Bible Revelation—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Former owner

• Breslauer, Martin, 1871-1940 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 32. [Browse]

Summary note

An early copy of the Glossa ordinaria on the Apocalypse, written, annotated and expanded by several hands before the text of the gloss became standardized.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from printed catalog.
• Decoration: Two initials with red and green foliate penwork, a few litterae notabiliores for incipits.
• Origin: Probably written in northeastern France or Rhineland.

Binding note

United States, 20th century. Bound for Princeton University Library by Scott Husby.

Language note

In Latin

Provenance

Early and intermediate provenance unknown. Acquired by Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897 from the Berlin bookseller Martin Breslauer (1871-1940) in 1905 and donated to 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, pages 28-29
• Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, volume 1, page 870

Cite as

Garrett MS. 32, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other format(s)

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/).

Other title(s)

New Testament Apocalypse with Glossa ordinaria

OCLC

1340380046

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