Details

Subject(s)

• Law—England—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Statutes—England—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—England [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Bookseller

• Bernard Quaritch (Firm) [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 146 [Browse]

Notes

• Title from printed catalog.
• The table of contents, listing 49 English statutes and other texts, does not correspond fully to the contents of the manuscript. Some items in the volume are omitted in the manuscript or are listed out of sequence.
• Script: Anglicana, by several scribes working on the various booklets.
• Decoration: Foliate initial E begins text of Magna Carta (fol. 5r), with infilling of trefoil and cinquefoil leaves on gold. The background of the divided blue and rose initial has curvilinear bars with paired trefoil leaves in green and olive on top and bottom margins; a green parrot is perched on the branch in the bottom margin.

Binding note

England, 14th century (?). The textblock is sewn on five alum-tawed bands, which are laced into a parchment wrapper bearing the Breton arms drawn in brown ink.

Provenance

Garrett MS. 146 seems to have been made for a member of the Breton family at the very end of the 13th century or beginning of the 14th. The earliest indication of provenance is a heraldic crest drawn in dark brown ink along with the name Breton on the manuscript's parchment wrapper. Robert Garrett (18751961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript on 15 July 1925 from the London antiquarian bookseller Bernard QuaritchQuaritch. 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 336-338.

Cite as

Garrett MS. 146, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1099510864

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