Details

Subject(s)

• Catholic Church—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Catholic Church—Liturgy—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Missals—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—France [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts [Browse]

Donor

• Richardson, Ernest Cushing, 1860-1939 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 64. [Browse]

Notes

• Script: Protogothic by several scribes.
• Decoration: Large decorated initials in brown penwork, set on purple fields, and sometimes accented with red. fol. 14v, Easter vigil, “Exvltet iam angelica,” 9-line initial E terminating in beasts' heads with interlacing pattern.

Binding note

Unbound fragments, stored in a box.

Provenance

Princeton MS. 64 was written in southern France, probably in Aquitaine, to judge by both musical notation and evidence from the Sanctorale. Intermediate provenance is unknown. Ernest Cushing Richardson (1860-1939), who served as University Librarian of Princeton University from 1890 to 1925, acquired this manuscript as recovered binder's waste and presented it to the Library as a gift in the early years of the 20th century.

Source acquisition

Gift; Ernest Cushing Richardson.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 263-265.

Cite as

Princeton MS. 64, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1107746779

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