Item Summary

A compilation of English devotional treatises in prose and verse, beginning with the Ten Commandments.

Descriptive Information

Title
[English devotional miscellany].
Call Number
Garrett MS. 143
Identifier
https://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/1j92gc56n
Publisher
[England] ; [14--].
Language
Middle English
Date Created
1400
Format
Manuscript
Extent
51 leaves : parchment ; 140 x 95 mm
Provenance
Early provenance unknown; marginal notes in a 17th century hand court hand on fols. 13v and 26r, respectively, refer to Walter Baynton, Esq. ("Precipe Waltero Baynton Armigero") and to the Dean and Chapter of Wells Cathedral, Somerset County: ("Ad Curiam manerij Commorum Ceta[nis?] et capit[a]lis Ecclesie cath[edralis] Wellen[sis] tent[um] apud Chittelham"); later owned by the British book collector Sir Henry Hope Edwardes (1829-1900), 10th baronet of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, whose armorial bookplate is on the front pastedown; sold at his sale at Christie's, London, on 20-23 May 1901 and acquired by the London antiquarian bookseller Bernard Quaritch; Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript from Quaritch on 20 September 1902 and gifted it to the Princeton University Library in 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift; of Robert Garrett, Princeton Class of 1897, 1942.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, pages 332-334
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, volume, page 894
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
fol. 1r-21v: "Decem precepta euangel[iorum]
fol. 21v-26v: "Hit(!) incipiunt septem mortalia peccata"
fol. 26v-29v: "Here begynnyþ þe fyve bodili wittus
fol. 29v-34r: "Here begyneþ þe ten commandementis and telliþ hoo brekeþ hem
fol. 34r-35r: "Here begyneþ þe seuen werkes of merci
fol. 35r-35v: "Here begyneþ þe seuen werkes of gostli merci
fol. 36r-36v: "How a man schulde haue in his hert fyue þynges þat desiryiþ to loue god
fol. 36v-38r: "What is þe kynde of a man in bodi and in soule
fol. 38v-44v: "Here begyneþ seint gregories trentel
44v-46v: "Here begynneþ þe songe of saing þe best
47r-49r: "Here begynneþ þe songe of þonkyng god of al
fol. 49r-51v: "Here begynne þe songe of amendis makinge".
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from printed catalog.
Script: Textualis semi-quadrata.
Decoration: blue 2- to 3-line initials with red flourishes at the beginnings of texts and sometimes sections within texts.
Binding Note
Bound in England in the 19th century by Francis Bedford in brown morocco over pasteboards; 5 raised bands; binding title: "A treatise on the ten commandments. MS."

Discovery Information

Subject
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Spirituality—Catholic Church—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, English (Middle)—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
118

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/40f687d4-ba91-42b9-a240-5e702880bb56/manifest