Details

Subject(s)

• Aeneas (Legendary character)—Poetry [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

Houghton, Arthur Amory, 1906-1990 [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 123 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Epic poetry [Browse]
• Poetry [Browse]

Notes

• Script: Humanistica antiqua.
• Decoration: Book II begins with the rubric “Publii maronis liber 2 incipit,” followed by space for an unexecuted 3-line initial C beginning book II; the missing initial was supplied later as a crude 2-line initial in black ink. The rest of the first word (“Conticuere”) is written in pale red ink by the original scribe. Each line begins with a pale red 1-line initial.

Binding note

Housed in a modern red morocco box.

Provenance

Princeton MS. 123 was written in Italy in the mid-15th century. The manuscript's early and intermediate provenance is unknown. It was in the collection of the American book collector Arthur Houghton, Jr. (1906-1990), whose plate “AHA” is inside the box. The Princeton University Library purchased the manuscript in 1979 at the Christie's, London, sale of Houghton's miniature books.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 354-355.

Cite as

Princeton MS. 123, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1112076999

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