Details

Subject(s)

• Logic—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]

Former owner

Bignon, Jean, active 1512-1544 [Browse]

Bookseller

Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930 [Browse]

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 115 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]

Notes

• Title from printed catalog.
• Script: Carolingian minuscule with several abbreviations; written by several scribes.
• Decoration: None.

Binding note

France, early 18th century. Tanned calf over pasteboard, with gold-stamped device “Bibliothec Bignon” on front and back panels.

Provenance

Garrett MS. 115 was written in France, perhaps in Aquitaine and possibly Limoges, because the manuscript includes near-contemporary additions in the hand of Adémar of Chabannes (fols. 57v-58r), which were most likely made between 1028 and his departure for the Holy Land in 1033. The earliest recorded owner of the manuscript is Jean-Paul Bignon (1662-1743), abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Quentin-en-l'Île (Aisne, Picardy) and a member of the Académie Française. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript 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 258-260.

Cite as

Garrett MS. 115, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1098106790

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