Item Summary

Breviary with some additions.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Breviary].
Call Number
Garrett MS. 42
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/n296x6261
Publisher
[Bologna?, Italy], [between 1325 and 1400]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1325-1400
Format
Manuscript
Extent
455 leaves : parchment, illustrations, 125 x 90 (78 x 55) mm bound to 133 x 97 mm.
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.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 64-66.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
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.
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.

Discovery Information

Subject
Catholic Church—Prayers and devotions
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
914

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/687788f4-bdb5-482e-9cf3-488342d7d9a1/manifest