Details

Subject(s)

• Devotional calendars—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]

Donor

• Brunschwig, Silvain S. [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 79. [Browse]

Notes

• Parchment; fols. 21, folded vertically into thirds, the top half then folded down to 70 x 35 mm; when open, leaves measure 135 x 110 mm (123 x 86 mm); the two vertical folds in each leaf form three columns.
• Script: Textualis rotunda.
• Decoration: Elaborate rota table on 90 x 90 mm square, gold, blue, green, red (fol. 15r). Each calendar leaf (fols. 1-12) begins with a 5-line blue initial KL with red pen work.

Binding note

Italy, 15th century. Dark brown leather wrapper extending over the fore-edge. The textblock is riveted together with three brass nails anchored into brass plates ending in a loop, from which the folding calendar could be carried on a monk's belt or girdle.

Provenance

Princeton MS. 79 was written around 1455, the year given in the rota on fol. 15r. It is possibly of Florentine origin, to judge from the inclusion of locally venerated saints in the calendar Intermediate provenance is unknown. In 1951, Mrs. Carl W. Jones of Minneapolis and Dr. Silvain S. Brunschwig of New York City donated the manuscript to the Princeton University Library.

Source acquisition

Gift; Mrs. Carl W. Jones and Dr. Silvain S. Brunschwig, 1951.

References

• Elmer Adler, “An Informal Talk on Books and Book Collecting” in Elmer Adler in the World of Books (Princeton: Friends of the Princeton University Library, 1964), pp. 112-114.
• Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 282-284.

Cite as

Princeton MS. 79, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1108750801

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