Details

Subject(s)

• Jesus Christ—Passion—Meditations—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Devotional literature—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Devotional literature, Dutch (Middle) [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Dutch—Netherlands [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Dutch—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Former owner

• Garrett, Thomas Harrison, 1848-1888 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 135 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Meditations [Browse]

Notes

• Title from printed catalog.
• Script: Textualis semi-quadrata.
• Decoration: Late Gothic. Flemish painting of the Ghent-Bruges area, early 16th century. Includes 8 full page, arched miniatures with ornamented borders and matching borders on the facing leaf (except for removed leaf between fols. 52|53).

Bibliographic references

In Dutch, Middle French, and Latin.

Binding note

France, 19th century. Dark blue morocco over pasteboard; covers gold-tooled in dentelle pattern, with additional tooling on turn-ins and board edges.

Provenance

Garrett MS. 135 was written and decorated in the Ghent-Bruges area of Flanders in the early 16th century, but its subsequent provenance is unknown until it was acquired by Thomas Harrison Garrett (1850-1888), Class of 1868, of Baltimore, Maryland. His bookplate is on the inside front cover and the number 32 is written in pencil in the upper left corner. The manuscript entered the collection of his son, Robert Garrett (1875-1961), also of Baltimore, Class of 1897. On his father's bookplate, Garrett wrote his initials “R.G. June 1927” in pencil. 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 311-313.

Cite as

Garrett MS. 135, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1099492230

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