Script: Humanistica cancellaresca. Scribe1 wrote in French (fols. 1-39), scribe 2 in Flemish, Latin, and a final prayer in French (fols. 40-83).
Decoration: Flemish Renaissance painting, including nine full-page arched miniatures, each surrounded by a full frame border with architectural decoration resembling wood.
Bibliographic references
In Middle Dutch, Middle French, and Latin.
Binding note
England (?), 18th or 19th century. Dark blue velvet over pasteboard.
Provenance
Garrett MS. 132 has the arms of an early female owner on fol. 20v, now obliterated and appearing simply as a black (formerly argent?) lozenge in the lower margin. A heraldic lozenge (dexter argent; sinister or, two lions rampant addorsed gules) is in the initial on fol. 67r for the opening of the prayer to St. Elizabeth of Hungary; the arms belong to the lords of Cordes de Waudripont, Hainaut, Belgium. By the 19th century, the manuscript was in the library of the British antiquarian Edward Hailstone (1818-1890), of Walton Hall, located near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript at an unknown date. 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 303-306.
Cite as
Garrett MS. 132, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
OCLC
1099504990
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