Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Bookseller

Rich, O. (Obadiah), 1777-1850 [Browse]

Former owner

• Gilmor, Robert, 1774-1848 [Browse]
• Garrett, Thomas Harrison, 1848-1888 [Browse]
• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Booksellers

John and Arthur Arch [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 28. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Gilt edges [Browse]
• Ribbon markers [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]
• historiated initials [Browse]
• decorated initials [Browse]

Medium/​Support

parchment rdamat

Summary note

Bible with a double psalter, consisting of two parallel versions by Jerome, the Gallican in the left column and the Hebraic in the right.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title devised by cataloger.
• Accompanied by a note from Robert Gilmor.
• Collation: Parchment ; fol. ii (paper) + 458 + ii (paper) ; modern foliation in pencil.
• Layout: 51 lines per page in two columns.
• Description: Running titles in red and blue.
• Decoration: 1- and 2-line pen-work initials in blue and red for versals, chapters, regular psalms, and prologue for Pentateuch. 5- and 8-line pen-work initials in blue or red, adorned with flourishes, often with foliage, creatures, and figures in Hebraic Psalms. 5-line decorated initials for two prologues of the double psalter. 8-line historiated initials for the first prologue, Frater Ambrosius, books of the Bible, and in the Gallican psalms. Colors of blue, rose, orange, green, pink, gray, tawny yellow, and burnished gold. See the entry in Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 13-15 for detailed descriptions of the historiated initials.
• Origin: Written and illuminated in England in the 1270s.

Binding note

Later binding. Bound in 1832 by Obadiah Rich in England. Blue morocco with gold tooling, and gold-tooled turn-ins. Blue paper pastedowns. Multi-colored endbands. Gilt edges. 2 purple ribbon markers.

Language note

Latin;

Script

Gothic textura rotunda

Contents

• 1. fol. 1r-381r: [Old Testament]
• 2. fol. 381v-458r: [New Testament]

Provenance

Early provenance unknown. Sold in 1830 by booksellers John and Arthur Arch to Obadiah Rich who purchased it for Robert Gilmor, Jr. Passed through members of the Gilmor family. Later acquired by Thomas Harrison Garrett and bequeathed to his son Robert Garrett. His gift to Princeton University Library in 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.

Publications about

Bennett, Adelaide. "The Place of Garrett 28 in Thirteenth-Century English Illumination," Diss. Columbia University, 1973 (full set of reproductions).

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 12-16.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

England.

Other title(s)

Biblia

OCLC

1091977101

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