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Subject(s)

• Catholic Church—Prayers and devotions—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]

Scribe

Baldinotti, Tommaso, 1451-1511 [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 129 [Browse]

Notes

• Script: Textualis rotunda.
• Decoration: Includes one full-page miniature, and 4 historiated initials. Subsequent Hours in the Office of the Virgin open with decorated 5- to 6-line colored initials set on gold fields and with floriate borders of blue, pink, orange, and gold balls with black hairline pen-work, extending into the margins.

Binding note

Italy, 18thcentury. Gold-tooled red calf over paste-board; rebacked in 1996; edges gilt; marbled paper pastedowns; endbands with secondary sewing in red silk.

Provenance

Princeton MS. 129 was written either in Pistoia or in Florence by the Italian humanist and poet Tommaso Baldinotti of Pistoia. The heraldic horse-head shield of an early owner is enclosed within a wreath in the lower border on fol. 14r (azure, a bend sable [or argent]). Intermediate provenance is unknown. The number 29 (?) is written in dark ink on the front pastedown, dating probably to the 19th century. The manuscript was possibly acquired by Robert Dix Benson (1861-1931), of Passaic, New Jersey, in the early 20th century; he gave it to his daughter, Olive Guthrie Benson. In 1919, she married John Howe Carlisle, also of Passaic. Their sons, Robert Dix Benson Carlisle of Montclair, New Jersey, Class of 1944, and David Benson Carlisle of Ridgewood, New Jersey, donated the manuscript to the Princeton University Library in 1988.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 364-365.

Cite as

Princeton MS. 129, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1112077679

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