Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Poetria novella / Gualfredi.
Call Number
Garrett MS. 121
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcd504s110r
Publisher
[Italy], [between 1350 and 1400]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1350-1400
Format
Manuscript
Extent
73 leaves : parchment ; 260 x 185 (125 x 80-90) mm bound to 269 x 200 mm.
Provenance
Unknown early and intermediate provenance. Owned by Leo S. Olschki. Robert Garrett, 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
Incipit: "Incipit poetria nouella maiisti(!) gualfredi anglici. Pappa stupor mundi si dixere pappa nocenti Papa stupor mundi, si dixero papa nocenti Acephalum nomen tribuam tibi si caput addam ..."
Explicit: "Sed licet omnis apex tibi cres[cat] [h]onoris honore, Crescere non poteris quantum de i[ur]e moreres(!)."
Title from printed catalog.
Verses and pen trials (fol. 73v). Manicules. The parchment is from a palimpsested account register giving personal names and sums of money ("libr.") in Italian and Latin.
Collation: Parchment ; fol. i (later) + 73 + i (later) ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 14-15 lines per page.
Decoration: 1- to 2-line red initials in margins to mark sections; occasionally red paraph marks instead. A few initials decorated with a bird (fol. 1r) or a face (fol. 3r, 3v). Several decorative maniculae and brackets around lines of note drawn in black ink by a later reader.
Origin: Written in Italy in the last half of the 14th century.
Binding Note
Later binding. Italy, 19th century. Brown 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)—New Jersey—Princeton

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