Details

Subject(s)

• Franciscans—Rules—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Monastic and religious life—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Sermons, Latin—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—Germany [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, German—Germany [Browse]
• Manuscripts, German—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts [Browse]

Former owner

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

Bookseller

• Sam Fogg Rare Books & Manuscripts (Firm) [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 175 [Browse]

Notes

• Title from printed catalog.
• Script: Cursiva libraria, in many hands.
• Decoration: None. There are guide letters and spaces on fol. 35r-v for four unexecuted initials.

Binding note

Germany, late 15th century. Beveled boards (8 mm thick), probably oak, covered in parchment with the hair side facing out and decorated front and back by four concentric frames with a cross saltire at the center.

Provenance

Princeton Ms. 175 is a composite volume of sermons and other texts written by various members of the Franciscan order in paper booklets during the period 1350-1475. Intermediate provenance is unknown. The Princeton University Library purchased from the London antiquarian bookseller Sam Fogg Rare Books in 2001 (Acc. no. 2002-95).

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 446-449.

Cite as

Princeton MS. 175, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1116175072

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