Details

Subject(s)

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

Binder

• Bloc, Lodewijk, fl. 1484-1529 [Browse]

Former owner

• Walker, Thomas Shadford, 1835-1885 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 63. [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

[between 1500 and 1525].

Summary note

Ms. Prayer book, written and illuminated in South Netherlands, probably Bruges.

Notes

• Layout: Parchment; single column of 22 lines, ruled 5 mm; 182 x 126 (111 x 78) mm.
• Decoration: 3-line brown initials painted with gold acanthus, on pink grounds for Prayers. 60 full-page, arched miniatures with full borders of flora and some fauna (150 x 95-8 mm.), all on rectos. The cycle of pictures begins with the Creation of Eve and ends with the Last Judgment; the majority illustrate scenes from the life of Christ.

Binding note

Brown calfskin over wooden boards, with a clasp of blue enamel escutcheon inscribed "P P"; front and back covers stamped with four rectangular panels, each panel decorated with vine-stems and grapes, and fauna including ape, stag, porcupine, squirrel, dog, rabbit, and ox, and each panel inscribed "Ob Lavdem Xpristi Librvm hvnc recte ligavi Lvdovicvs Bloc," Bruges binder, Lodewijk Bloc (active 1484-1529), named in inscription.

Language note

Dutch

Script

Textura semiquadrata.

Provenance

Carmelite nun, with initials "ZML" inscribed on a prominently displayed cloverleaf, possibly referring to Zuster Margriet Lapostole of the Carmelite convent of Our Lady of Sion in Bruges in the 16th century: f. 117r, her portrayal with two saints of her namesake, Margaret of Antioch with the dragon, and Evangelist Apostle John; Dr. Thomas Shadford Walker (1835-1885) of Liverpool; his sale (London, Sotheby's, 23 June 1886, lot no. 201); to Bernard Quaritch, Catalogue 369 (1886), no. 35.691; Catalogue 98 (1888), no. 1384, Catalogue 138 (1893), no. 127, Catalogue 166 (1897), no. 229; Catalogue 207 (1901), no. 2; Catalogue 211 (1902), no. 185; Robert Garrett (1875-1961), Class of 1897, of Baltimore, Maryland, bookplate, and deposit number 1458.

Source acquisition

Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.

Publications about

• Webber, Philip E. "Medieval Netherlandic Manuscripts in Princeton University Library." in Archief-en Bibliotheekwezen in Belgie 53 (1982): pp. 101-105.
• Webber, Philip E. "A Medieval Netherlandic Prayer Cycle on the Life of Christ: Princeton University Library, Garrett Ms. 63." in Ons Geestelijk Erf 52 (1978): pp. 311-362; plates 1 (binding), 2a (f. 1v), 2b (f. 2r), 3 (f. 88r), 4 (f. 117r).

References

• De Ricci, v. 1, p. 875 (no. 63)
• Neuenschwander, p. 14 (no. 36)

Cite as

Garrett MS. 63, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Place name(s)

Belgium Bruges.

OCLC

84323453

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