Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Poetria nova / Geoffrey of Vinsauf.
Call Number
Garrett MS. 121
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcd504s110r
Publisher
[Italy] : [producer not identified], [between 1350 and 1400]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1350-1400
Format
Manuscript
Extent
1 volume (i, 73, i leaves) : parchment ; 26 cm
Provenance
Garrett MS. 121 is of unknown early and intermediate provenance. The parchment is from a palimpsested account register giving personal names and sums of money (“libr.”) in Italian and Latin. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript from Olschki and placed it on deposit (GD no. 970). Garrett's bookplate is on the front pastedown. His gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 274-275.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Title from printed catalog.
Script: At least two scribes wrote the main text. Scribe 1 uses southern Textualis libraria, fols. 1r-6v (quire 1), 15r-34v (quires 3, 4, and first half of 5). Scribe 2, writing Textualis libraria bordering on Semi-textualis, copied fols. 7r-14v (quire 2), and fols. 34v-73r.
Decoration: 1- to 2-line red initials in margins to mark sections; occasionally red paraph marks instead. Several decorative maniculae and brackets around lines of note drawn in black ink by a later reader.
Binding Note
Italy, 19th century. Reddish and yellow marbled paper over pasteboard.

Discovery Information

Subject
Poetics—Early works to 1800
Rhetoric—Early works to 1800
Didactic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—Italy
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton
Illumination of books and manuscripts

Physical Characteristics

File Count
154

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/db04e026-7408-4b86-a806-e894ec1e23f3/manifest