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Subject(s)

• Encyclopedias and dictionaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Latin language—Etymology—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—Italy [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. 117 [Browse]

Notes

• Title from printed catalog.
• Script: Textualis rotunda.
• Decoration: Italian Gothic. Each of the 20 books opens with a 7-line (e.g., fol. 1r) or 5-line rose or magenta ini- tial with blue, pale green, orange, and rose patterns (sometimes leaf-like), and fine white filigree decoration, on gold square ground, outlined black, occasionally with colored foliage extending into the margins.

Binding note

United States (?), early 20th century.

Provenance

Garrett MS. 117 was written in northern Italy, possibly Bologna, in the first half to mid-14th century, judging from the style of script and decoration. An early 16th-century ownership inscription for Paolo di Spinetti (?) is written in italic script in dark brown ink on fol. 144v: “D. Pauli de Spinet[is] tar' ll. d.” Intermediate provenance is unknown. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript on 22 Decem- ber 1924 from the New York antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich (1865-1930). Garrett placed the manuscript on deposit at the Princeton University Library as no. 05724. His gift to the Library, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 263-265.

Cite as

Garrett MS. 117, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

78940167

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