Details

Subject(s)

• Caesar, Julius—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Rome—History—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, French—France [Browse]
• Manuscripts, French—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Bookseller

• North, Ernest Dressel, 1858-1945 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 129 [Browse]

Notes

• Title from printed catalog.
• Script: Bastard Secretary. Written in one hand.
• Decoration: Fol. 1r:*Three-quarter-page framed miniature (215 x 250 mm): Julius Caesar is shown dressed in a blue and gold cloak and on a horse covered in a rose-and-gold fabric. Under a deep blue sky, Caesar is leading a troop of nine men and two horses toward a welcoming party of five men outside city gates, which have 2 small escutcheons and 2 pennants depicting the imperial double eagle in gold (sable, a double eagle displayed or). A man, having climbed a tree, looks down on the group.

Binding note

France, 18th century. Brown calf over pasteboard, with marbled paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Garrett MS. 129 was probably executed in northern France or Burgundy for a noble patron in the third quarter of the 15th century. The New York bookseller Ernest Dressel North described the manuscript using a description extracted from the Christie's catalogue of the Beaufoy library. On 12 December 1924, North sold the manuscript to Robert Garrett (1875-1961), Class of 1897, of Baltimore, Maryland, whose bookplate is on inside front cover. His 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 295-297.

Cite as

Garrett MS. 129, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1099514041

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