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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2224

Shelfmark:

Garrett MS. 145

Title:

Revelations] /

Revelations

Author:

Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, approximately 1303-1373

Bridget of Sweden WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle English

Middle English WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 77 leaves : parchment ; 230 x 160 (173 x 115) mm bound to 236 x 177 mm.

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961

Robert Garrett WIKIDATA

Note:

Incipit: “Owre lorde Ihesu cryst tellyth seynte Birgytte why he chesyth hyr to be hys spovse and how as a spowse she awyth to aray hyr and be redy to hym. I am maker of heuen and erth and see and of all thynges that ben in hem. I am one wyth the fader and the holy goste nott as goddys of stones or of golde as sometyme was seyde, ne mony goddys as then was wende, bott on god ffadere and sone...
Ending : “…so þat the glorious sepulcre of god myght be had in due reuerence yf he had be sufficient to haue brought it about. And"
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment ; fol. iv (paper) + 77 + vii (paper) ; catchwords on verso of last folio in each quire ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 30-35 lines per page ; lightly frame-ruled in brown.
Description: Rubricated ; later endpapers have watermark (letters surmounted by a crown)
Decoration: The first chapter has a 7-line blue initial. Two-line blue initials begin the rubric to the first chapters and all subsequent chapters. Manicules (fol. 75v, 76r)
Unknown early and intermediate provenance. Owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, perhaps purchased from Thomas Rodd II. Sold from the Phillipps collection in 1896. Bernard Quaritch put it up for sale in 1902. Purchased from Quaritch by Robert Garrett on 1 October 1905. Garrett deposited the manuscript in the Princeton University Library in February 1906 (deposit no. 1397). His gift to the Library, 1942.

Keyword:

Gold tooled bindings

Headbands

Parchment (Paper)

Manicules

decorated initials

Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, approximately 1303-1373

Early works

Manuscripts, English (Middle)

New Jersey--Princeton

England

Visions

Christian saints

Sweden

Private revelations

Biographies

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99113466203506421

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Holding Institution:

Princeton University