Details

Subject(s)

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

Former owner

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872 [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 126 [Browse]

Notes

• The text is chiefly comprised of three Latin prayers to the Holy Name of Jesus, which have been transcribed and edited in Catherine A. Carsley, “Devotion to the Holy Name: Late Medieval Piety in England,” pulc 53, no. 2 (1992), pp. 170-172.
• Script: Textualis quadrata.
• Decoration: At the end of the prayer roll is a miniature (87 x 84 mm) depicting the Trinity (Mercy Seat), surrounded by four gray angels in the corners, with the arma Christi (instruments of the Passion) and a kneeling donor dressed in black on left. The miniature shows the donor, or rather the patron who commissioned the manuscript, kneeling before the Trinity (Mercy Seat), where he may be reciting the three prayers written above. God the Father wears pink robe, crowned with a gold halo and golden rays spreading over orange background, encircled by blue and black horseshoe-shaped rings.

Binding note

Currently stored in a modern drop-spine box, but originally it might have been kept in a fabric sack (with drawstring), a leather pouch, a cuir bouilli case, or some other container.

Contents

1. face: “ || [O ihesu o dulcissime ihesu o] | ihesu fili marie virginis plenus | misericordia et pietate o dulcis ihesu secundum | magnam misericordiam tuam miserere mei ...” Explicit: “... per te ihesu christe saluator mundi rex glorie. Qui cum deo patre et spiritu sancto viuis et regnas deus. Per omnia secula seculorum Amen.”

Provenance

Princeton MS. 126 has been described as an English prayer roll and may well have been produced in England, although it is also possible that it was produced in the Low Countries for an English patron. The intermediate provenance is unknown. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), of Middle Hill, Worcestershire, acquired the manuscript. The roll remained in the Phillipps collection and was purchased by the London antiquarian bookseller William H. Robinson, Ltd., in 1946. It was sold at the Sotheby's, London, on 14 July 1981, as “Property of the Trustees of the Robinson Trust.” The Princeton University Library acquired the manuscript at that sale.

Source acquisition

Gift; Edna French Reed, 1953.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 358-359.

Cite as

Princeton MS. 126, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1112085122

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