Item Summary

Lectionary containing Gospel readings for feast days in the Temporale (fol. 1r-155r) and the Sanctorale (fol. 154v-158v). Annotated music with neumes.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Gospel lectionary].
Call Number
Garrett MS. 33
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc6108vq817
Publisher
[France], [between 1500 and 1525]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1500-1525
Format
Musical score
Extent
168 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 265 x 190 (182 x 111) mm bound to 285 x 210 mm.
Provenance
Early provenance unknown. Earliest known owner was William Bragge. Sold from his collection by Sotheby's London in 1876 to Bernard Quaritch. Later sold by an unidentified company to Thomas Harrison Garrett, Class of 1868. Inherited by Robert Garrett, Class of 1897, his gift to Princeton University Library in 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 30-32.
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, volume 1, page 870
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment ; fol. i (marbled paper) + vii (parchment, some modern) + 168 + vi (parchment, some modern) + i (marbled paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 18 lines per page ; ruled.
Decoration: Early 16th-century French paintings. 3- to 6-line miniatures with full foliate borders containing flowers, fruit, animals and fantastical beasts. Historiated initials, decorated crosses and 2-line decorated initials on gold. See the Index of Christian art or the entry in Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library for detailed descriptions of the miniatures.
Origin: Early 16th century French.
Binding Note
Later binding. English, William Townsend and Son, 19th-century. Green morocco over wooden boards. Gold-tooled mandorla with corner quatrefoils and gold-tooled turn-ins. Gold-stamped and tooled spine. Marbled paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Endbands. Gilt edges.

Discovery Information

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

Physical Characteristics

File Count
370

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7ba95d21-c08b-4108-8286-04b43e151e9a/manifest