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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2217

Shelfmark:

Garrett MS. 95

Title:

Miscellany; containing 42 scientific and other texts, most notably by Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln

Miscellany

Place:

Engand

England TGN

Date:

between 1425 and 1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 172 leaves : parchment ; 180 x 128 (117-120 x 80) mm bound to 186 x 135 mm.

Former Owner(s):

Northumberland, Henry Percy, Earl of, 1564-1632

Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland WIKIDATA

Leconfield, Henry Wyndham, Baron, 1830-1901

Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield WIKIDATA

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961

Robert Garrett WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. composite codex.
Title from printed catalog.
Collation: Parchment ; fols. iii (iii is defective) + 172 + ii (i is defective) ; catchwords in banderoles on some quires ; modern pagination in pencil ; modern foliation in pencil consisting of circled numbers.
Layout: 30-33 long lines per page ; partially frame-ruled in light brown ink.
Description: Written in Anglicana under Secretary influence ; rubricated.
Decoration: Red ink used for initials (3- or 2-line initials at beginning of texts, 2-line initials for sections). Five figures and a working volvelle with two moving parts illustrate the Ramon Lull text, fols. 24r-27v. Diagram of a rithmomachia game board (fol. 47v), which is comprised of 128 black and white squares, arranged 16 down and 8 across, with 24 arabic numbers. Figures depicting the...
Early provenance is unknown. In the library of the Earls of Northumberland by mid-16th century. Various unidentified names are found in annotations dating from the 17th centuries: “To the right Reverend father in god Richard Lord Bishop of the”(fol. 1r); “Sr Charles [ ],” “Charles Edwards,” “Sr Thomas Manning”(?), and “LP” (back flyleaf and pastedown). Inherited by Charles Henry Wyndham, Baron...

Keyword:

scientific illustrations (images)

Gold tooled bindings

illuminated manuscripts

Volvelles

Clasps

Wooden boards

Autographs

tables (documents)

Headbands

Manicules

diagrams

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

England

New Jersey--Princeton

Science, Medieval

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99113279633506421

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Holding Institution:

Princeton University