L'histoire ancienne jusqu'à Cesar ; Faits des romains.

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)
Published/​Created
[Paris?, France] : [producer not identified], [between 1425 and 1450]
Description
1 volume (2, 271, ii leaves) : parchment, illustrations

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Notes
  • Title from printed catalog.
  • Script: Textualis libraria, by several scribes writing in pale to dark brown ink. Punctuation comprised of punctus for major pauses.
  • Decoration: Gothic illumination, probably Paris. Includes col- umn miniatures, historiated initials, and decorated initials in orange, pink, mauve, pastel blue, royal blue, olive green, and yellow.
Binding note
France, 18th century. Brown calf over pasteboard, with marbled paper pastedowns.
Provenance
Garrett MS. 128 is of unknown early and intermediate provenance. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript on 18 April 1925 from the New York antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich (1865-1930). Garrett's gift to the Princeton University Library in 1942.
Source acquisition
Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 291-294.
Cite as
Garrett MS. 128, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Other title(s)
  • Faits des romains
  • Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César. Selections (Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 128)
  • Faits des Romains.
OCLC
1099488500
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