Princeton University, Garrett MS. 67.

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2213

Shelfmark:

Garrett MS. 67.

Title:

Evsebii Caesariensis De Evangelica Praeparatione Liber

Place:

Padua, Italy

Padua TGN

Date:

between 1475 and 1500

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 314 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 280 x 210 (178 x 115-120) mm bound to 297 x 220 mm.

Note:

Incipit: "Qvom qvid sit Christianismvs nescientibus aperire statuerim hunc librum quo euangelicae doctrinę ueritatem approbamus….”
Explicit: : “…qui nec sensu, nec ratione quicquam posse comprehendi docentes magno risu omnium explosi sunt. Liber Quartusdecimus et Vltimvs Explicit Foeliciter. Deo Gratias Amen. ”
Ms. codex.
Title from caption (fol. 3b).
Marginal notes and corrections. Contains a dedicatory preface by George of Trebizond addressed to Pope Nicholas V "Ad Sanctissimvm Papam Nicolaum V Georgii Trapezvntii in Tradvctionem Evsebii Praefacio" (folio 2r-3v). Title written on the lower edge: “EVSEBIVS.”
Collation: Parchment ; fols. i (contemporary parchment) + 314 (modern foliation, fols. 2–313; fols. 236 and 299 twice) + i (contemporary parchment) ; catchwords at end of quires ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 26 long lines per page.
Description: Running titles and rubrics in red ink.
Decoration: Characteristic of Padua in the style of simple roman capitals on a colored field decorated with interlaced knot patterns. Eight-line initial E (“Eusebius,” fol. 2r) in red on blue ground with gold frame, outlined in black and with infilling of red and green interlace; on upper and inner margins, blue borders decorated with red and green interlace on gold and with three parrots; on...
Garrett MS. 67 was written and decorated in Padua in the 1450s, according to A.C. de la Mare, and was owned by the Coppo family of Venice. Owned by Pietro Giometti (1812–1859); from 1862 owned by Baldasarre Boncompagni (1821–1894); 1902 acquired by George Dunn (1865–1912); sold 1913 by Sotheby's, London to Maggs Bros.; purchased by Robert Garrett (1875-1961) from the New York antiquarian...

Keyword:

Blind tooled bindings

illuminated manuscripts

Clasps

Bosses (Bindings)

illuminations (paintings)

Wooden boards

Parchment (Paper)

Theology, Practical

Apologetics

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99113127023506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d6df8784-4a4d-448b-88f8-2fbfc387633e/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University