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Subject(s)

• Bible. John—Sermons—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 64. [Browse]

Notes

• Title from printed catalog.
• Script: Protogothic, using ampersand, e-caudata for æ, upright d and occasional uncial d, long s, and sometimes short s at ends of words.
• Decoration: Sermons open with an 8- to 10-line foliate Romanesque pen-drawn initial in brown ink, uncolored (fols. 28r, 39v, 50r, 61r, 89r, and 102r); beasts included within initials on fols. 50r and 61r; Sermon 1 opens with a 3-line parti-colored initial in red and green on fol. 3r.

Binding note

France (Alsace), 12th century. Quarter-sawn oak (10 mm thick), with plain-wound endbands over split alum-tawed bands.

Provenance

Garrett MS. 64 is probably from Alsace, possibly the Metz area (see Script), but is of unknown early provenance. An unidentified American sale catalogue description formerly pasted on the inside front cover lists this manuscript as no. 380, and quotes a 1904 publication (prices given in dollars). Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript in March 1925 from the New York bookseller Erhard Weyhe (1882-1972), House of Weyhe. Garrett's 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 122-124.

Cite as

Garrett MS. 64, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other title(s)

In Johannis epistulam ad Parthos tractatus

OCLC

1091941280

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