Details

Subject(s)

• Solitude—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Sin—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Catholic Church—Sermons—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—France [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts [Browse]

Bookseller

Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930 [Browse]

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 93. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Sermons [Browse]

Notes

• Title from printed catalog.
• Script: Bâtarde. Common abbreviations; ampersand used for et; little punctuation. Occasional subject notes and names written in margins by the scribe.
• Decoration: French Gothic; major textual divisions open with 3- to 4-line blue initials, with blue, pink, and white foliage decoration, on gold squares; gold bars, lined blue and pink, around inner column, and rincaux floral half border: fol. 1r, De vita solitaria, book I; fol. 39r, De vita solitaria, book II; and fol. 101r, Speculum peccatoris. Two-line blue or red initials, with red or blue pen flourishes on fols. 2-96 and similar 1-line initials, fols. 108-110.

Binding note

France, late 18th century. Light brown or citron morocco, ornate gilt stamps at the enter of the front and back panels, within triple-line gilt frame, fleuron stamps on spine;

Provenance

Garrett MS. 93 belonged to the religious house of the Célestins d'Ambert, in Clermont-Ferrand, France, whose 17th-century ownership inscription is on fol. 1r, “Celestinorum Beatae Mariae de Amberto.” Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript in August 1925 from the New York antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich (1865-1930). 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 197-198.

Cite as

Garrett MS. 93, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other title(s)

Speculum peccatoris.

OCLC

1097210602

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