Item Summary

A collection focusing on miracles, signs, wonders, and healings done by the holy men of sixth-century Italy in the form of a conversation between Pope Gregory and a deacon named Peter.

Descriptive Information

Title
Liber dialogorvm.
Call Number
Garrett MS. 70
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dch702qj36k
Publisher
[Regensburg, Germany], [1081 or 1082]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1081-1082
Extent
86 leaves : parchment ; 250 x 182 (200 x 140) mm bound to 253 x 190 mm.
Provenance
The MS belonged to the Cistercians of Hohenfurth until at least 1910. The Munich antiquarian bookseller Emil Hirsch (1851-1923) listed it for sale in a catalog. Robert Garrett (1875-1961) purchased the manuscript through the bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich (1865-1930). Garrett's gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift Robert Garrett, Princeton Class of 1897 1942.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 137-139.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Incipit: “Incipit liber dialogorvm. Qvadam die dum nimis [q]uorundam secularium tumultibus depressus essem quibus in suis negotiis plerumque…”
Explicit: “…et fidenter dico, quia salutari hostia post mortem non indigemus, si ante mortem hostia ipsi fuerimus. Finit deo gratias ago."
Ms. codex.
Title from incipit (fol. 1r).
List of chapters (fol. 84v-86r). The anonymous text Visio Karoli III, also called Visio Karoli Grossi, on folio 86v. Included in the Chronicon Centulense, this text begins :“Visio quam uidit Karolus de suo nomine tertius imperato".
Collation: Parchment ; quiremarks for quires 5, 7, and 8 (written as “iix”) ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 35 long lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; stress marks ; chapter divisions in orange-red roman numerals in the margins; caps filled in with red; occasionally some lines re-inked in the 12th century.
Decoration: Plain red initials of 6 to 9 lines for the beginnings of the four books: fols. 1r, 16v, 33v, and 58r. Several 2-line litterae notabiliores, and many capitals within the text stroked with red.
Origin: Written in 1081-1082 by the Irish scribe Johannes [Eoin], working in the Irish Benedictine foundation in Regensburg, Germany.
Binding Note
Germany, 13th century. Alum-tawed pigskin over beech boards (6 mm thick). The textblock was trimmed flush with the boards (253 x 190 mm). Strap-and-pin fastening from bottom to top, but previously strapped from top to bottom. Pastedowns are from a 13th-century table of running titles from an unidentified theological manuscript.

Discovery Information

Subject
Christian saints—Italy—Biography—Early works to 1800
Benedict Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino—Early works to 1800
Immortality—Christianity—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton
Parchment (Paper)
Clasps
Wooden boards

Physical Characteristics

File Count
183

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/06282029-176a-41c5-881d-e3ca33719d2a/manifest