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Subject(s)

• Law—Iceland—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Icelandic—Iceland [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Icelandic—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. Princeton MS. 62. [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]

Notes

• Script: Textualis libraria.
• Decoration: Twelve ornamental but somewhat crude initials, including four figurative initials: Fol. 3v: initial F, bird perched above four-legged animal with tail, standing on hind legs. Fol. 18v: initial Þ, head of human, bearded, and wearing hat. Fol. 40r: initial S, bird perched on base. Fol. 135v: initial P, man, possibly thief, hanging from gallows. Eight decorated initials in red, purple, green, ochre, gold, and silver: M (fol. 2r), P (fol. 10v), P (fol. 18v), P (fol. 29v), F (fol. 35v), E (fol. 65v), H (fol. 101r), P (fol. 110r), and S (fol. 123v). Occasional light brown penwork decoration in lower margins (e.g., fol. 117r) and hardpoint decoration (fol. 7r).

Binding note

Iceland, 17th century (?). Blind-tooled calf over chamfered wooden boards (8 mm thick); tooled in concentric frames filled with an outer border of arabesques, with tooling in the middle.

Contents

• 1.2r-143v: “Magnus með guðs myskunn nordueg konungr son hakon konungs sonar sueris konungs sendir ollum guðs vinum ok sinum a islaunde queo guðs ok sina.”
• 2.144r-152v: Amendments (réttarbætur) by King Erik Magnusson (r. 1280-1299), 1280 and 2 July 1294; King Hakon Magnusson (r. 1299-1319), 23 June 1305, 14 June 1314, 28 March 1318; King Hakon Magnusson the Younger (r. 1355-1380), 10 June 1375.
• 3.153v-167v: Chapter headings (bálkar) to the main text, subdivided by “capituli” (!). Fol. 168r is blank.
• 4.168v-169r: Notes on the payment of tithes.

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Provenance

Princeton MS. 62 was written in Iceland, in the second half of the 16th century. Early provenance is unknown. There are several ownership marks of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript in March 1931 from the London antiquarian bookseller Bernard Quaritch. Garrett's gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett, 1942.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 262-263.

Cite as

Princeton MS. 62, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1107789139

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