Details

Subject(s)

• Spiritual life—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Christian life—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, German—Germany [Browse]
• Manuscripts, German—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Former owner

• Klosterkirche Rot an der Rot [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 60. [Browse]

Notes

• Script: Hybrida libraria.
• German translation (here written in a Swabian dialect) from the original Dutch mystical treatise, written around 1455 to 1460 by Hendrik Herp, a Franciscan who was born in North Brabant.
• Decoration: Each book opens with an 5- to 8-line red initial with red, ochre, and black decoration (fols. 1r, 32r, 60r, 147r); lesser divisions marked with 2- to 3-line plain red initials.

Binding note

Germany, late 15th or early 16th century. Alumtawed pigskin over wooden boards (9-10 mm thick), decorated with concentric frames, containing 7 circular stamps (possibly an Evangelist symbol of an eagle for St. Mark) in the center panel, surrounded by a rectangle containing lozenge-shaped stamps of a unicorn, together with 4 of the same circular stamp in each corner.

Provenance

Princeton MS. 60 was completed in 1486, according to the colophon on fol. 170v. The manuscript was from the Premonstratensian monastery of Rot an der Rot (also known as Roth, Mönchsroth, and Münchsroth), in Upper Swabia, Baden-Württemberg. The monastery's shelf number “M.II” is on the spine. The manuscript may still have been in the substantial library when the counts of Erbach-Erbach inherited the former monastery and its property in 1808. Intermediate provenance is unknown. An unidentified German dealer offered the manuscript for sale. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript and placed it on deposit in the Princeton University Library from 1906 to 1924 (Garrett Deposit no. 1460), as indicated on fol. 2r. It was returned to Garrett between 1924 and 1935. De Ricci saw the manuscript and gave it the shelf number 123, written in pencil on the front pastedown and subsequently erased. But Garrett donated the manuscript to the Princeton University Library separately from the rest of his collection, as a result of which it has a Princeton shelf number.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 258-259.

Cite as

Princeton MS. 60, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1107761322

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