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Subject(s)

• Theology, Doctrinal—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—England [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Bookseller

• Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 75. [Browse]

Notes

• Title from printed catalog.
• Text in Latin.
• Script: Anglicana. A 14th-century scribe, probably in Oxford, was responsible for the main text. An early 15th-century scribe was responsible for the marginal annotations and second text.
• Decoration: Two-line blue initials with red pen flourishes for each chapter.

Binding note

England, late 19th century. Bound by Roger de Coverly, active in London from 1871 to 1901.

Provenance

Garrett MS. 75 was bound together with Garrett MSS. 66, 85, 86, and 87 until the late 19th century, when the volume was broken up into at least five separate volumes, which were bound in matching bindings by Roger de Coverly. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript on 10 June 1926 from the New York antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich (1865-1930). Gar- rett'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 152-153.

Cite as

Garrett MS. 75, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1097219804

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