Princeton University, Garrett MS. 70.

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2214

Shelfmark:

Garrett MS. 70.

Title:

Liber dialogorvm.

Place:

Regensburg, Germany

Regensburg TGN

Date:

1081 or 1082

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 86 leaves : parchment ; 250 x 182 (200 x 140) mm bound to 253 x 190 mm.

Note:

Incipit: “Incipit liber dialogorvm. Qvadam die dum nimis quorundam 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.
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.$5NjP

Keyword:

Clasps

Wooden boards

Parchment (Paper)

Christian saints

Immortality--Christianity

Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99113159233506421

IIIF Manifest:

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

Holding Institution:

Princeton University