Princeton University, Garrett MS. 72.

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2215

Shelfmark:

Garrett MS. 72.

Title:

Expositio in evangelium Mathei.

Place:

Fulda, Germany

Fulda TGN

Date:

between 840 and 850

ninth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 174 leaves : parchment ; 295 x 230 (220 x 155) mm bound to 300 x 240 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from incipit (fol. 6r.)
List of Gospel sequences for Temporale, Sanctorale, and Common of Saints (fol. 1r.-4r.), folios 6-8, and some blank pages added in the 15th century.
Incipit: “Incipit expositio in evangelium Mathei. Expositionem itaque scripturus in euangelium beati Mathei oportunum esse paucis primum intimare…”
Explicit: “… conscientia sine doctrine sanctę pabulo|"
Collation: Parchment ; fol. 174 ; quires signed ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 31 lines per page in two columns ; ruled.
Description: Written in Carolingian miniscule, later additions are in Gothic bookhand ; rubricated ; chapter numbers in red at the top of each recto.
Script: Carolingian minuscule (fols. 9r-174v) by several scribes, with a hierarchy of script for display, including Roman Square Capitals, Uncial, and Capitalis rustica.
Decoration: There is a 5-line initial E in red, blue, and green, and red penwork infilling; red and mauve pen flourishes extending into margin (fol. 6r). Other 9th-century 3- and 4-line Roman initials, painted black, at beginning of books 2-5, are not decorated.
Origin: Written in the scriptorium at Fulda, probably about 840-850.
Owned by the Benedictine Abbey of St. Victor of Xanten in the 15th century. In the collections of Sir John Savile the Elder, Sir Henry Savile, and Sir John Savile the Younger. Part of the Savile collection sold by the London bookseller Joseph Lilly. Acquired by Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham. His son sold it to Henry Yates Thompson, who sold it on to Sotheby's who sold it to...

Keyword:

Centerpiece and cornerpiece bindings

illuminated manuscripts

Velvet bindings

Treasure bindings

Wooden boards

decorated initials

Parchment (Paper)

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Bible. Matthew

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99113159823506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6f181f31-3e8e-48bc-8655-5f15e3575730/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University