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Subject(s)

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

Former owner

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]
• Basilica di San Domenico (Perugia, Italy) [Browse]

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 42. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Breviaries [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Wooden boards [Browse]
• Clasps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]
• historiated initials [Browse]
• decorated initials [Browse]
• illuminations (paintings) [Browse]
• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]

Medium/​Support

parchment rdamat

Summary note

Breviary with some additions.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title devised by cataloger.
• Collation: Parchment ; fol. 455 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in ink.
• Layout: 26 lines per page in two columns ; ruled.
• Decoration: Italian Gothic. 12 historiated initials. Colors of blue, slate blue, rose, pink, olive green, orange, and gray. 1- to 4-line initials in blue or red. See the entry in Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library for detailed descriptions of the initials.
• Origin: Probably produced in nothern Italy, possibly Bologna, for a Dominican friar at the beginning of the 14th century.

Binding note

Later binding. 15th-century, Italian. Brown calf over wooden boards. Blind-tooled with overall pattern of interlocking horseshoes enclosing twenty-eight annular dots in central panel, and rosettes in borders. Multi-colored endbands. Remnants of strap-and-pin fastener.

Language note

Latin;

Script

Textualis quadrata

Contents

• 1. pastedown: [Indulgence of Pope Urban VI]
• 2. fol. 1r-3v: [Recipe for iron-gall ink]. Text has been erased.
• 3. fol. 4r-10r: [Graded calendar]
• 4. fol. 10r-84v: [Liturgical psalter for Dominican use]
• 5. fol. 84v-86v: [Dominican litany]
• 6. fol. 88r-263v: [Temporale]
• 7. fol. 263v-418v: [Sanctorale]
• 8. fol. 418v-431r: [Common of Saints]
• 9. fol. 431r-436r: [Miscellaneous items]
• 10. fol. 440r-454v: [Appendix]. Liturgical additions of the offices of the Corpus Christi, Thomas Aquinas, and Ursula of Cologne.

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Provenance

Early provenance unknown. In the 15th or 16th century owned by the Dominican house of St. Dominic in Perugia, Umbria. Bears the signature of Magister Valentinus Camertis, O.T. Intermediate provenance unknown. Robert Garrett, Class of 1897, purchased at an unknown date. His gift to Princeton University Library, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.

Publications about

Denny, Don. "Notes on the Avignon Pietà," Speculum 44 (1969), p. 227 nos. 61, 62.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 64-66.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

Italy Bologna

OCLC

81937995

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