Details

Subject(s)

• Latin poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Rome—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—Italy [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts [Browse]

Former owner

Patterson, Robert W., 1850-1921 [Browse]

Donor

Patterson, Robert W., 1850-1921 [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 30. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]

Notes

• Script: Humanistica antiqua.
• Decoration: Fol. 1r with a 4-line gold initial M (“Mecenas”) set in 8 lines of white vine-stem on fields of blue, green, and pink and outlined in blue. A similar white vinestem border at the foot of the page, surrounding an unidentified heraldic shield. Subsequent books and texts open with 3- or 4-line gold initials on similar backgrounds: fols. 23r, 36v, 60v, and 75v.

Binding note

Italy, 15th century. Brown calfskin blind-tooled in a knot-work pattern over oak boards (7-8 mm thick), with grooved edges. Gilt edges; 3 bands; remains of two straps on the front cover, with two nails each, and two catchplates on the lower cover, one original, the other a replacement.

Provenance

Princeton MS. 30 was probably written and decorated in central Italy, possibly Siena, according to A.C. de la Mare. The manuscript is dated “xvi Kal. Junias mcccclv” (17 May 1455). The present manuscript was sold on 14 February 1913 as part of the Dunn sale at Sotheby's, London. The London bookselling firm of J. & J. Leighton purchased the manuscript and sold it to Robert W. Patterson (1850-1921), of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Class of 1876, the donor of the Robert Patterson '76 Collection of Editions of Horace, who gave this manuscript to the Princeton University Library. A presentation bookplate is on the inside front cover. Princeton Ms. 30 was accessioned on 13 June 1913 as no. 298299 and catalogued as Ms. 2865.1455.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert W. Patterson, 1913.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 203-204.

Cite as

Princeton MS. 30, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1340158550

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