Princeton University, Garrett MS no. 40.

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2236

Shelfmark:

Garrett MS no. 40.

Title:

Missale secundum usum fratrum ordinis beate dei genetricis Marie de Monte Carmeli.

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1440 and 1476

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 274 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 377 x 270 (235-240 x 163) mm bound to 396 x 290 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from incipit, folio 7r.
Collation: Parchment ; fol. iii (2 modern paper, 1 parchment) + 274 + iii (1 parchment, 2 paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 25-33 lines per page in two columns ; ruled.
Decoration: Includes 2 full-page miniatures; 42 half-page or column miniatures; 23 historiated initials; 24 calendar illustrations. Calendar pages, Introits, and Proper Prefaces have borders decorated with floriate ornament. In the calendar, vignettes of the occupations of the month are within the lower border and Zodiac medallions in the side margins; KL initials are decorated. Minor initials...
Created for the Carmelites of Nantes. Later owned by Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton. Sold from his collection in 1883 to the Königlich-Preussiche Museum. Sold by Sotheby's in 1889. Sold by Théophile Belin in 1896 to Henry Yates Thompson. Sold from his collection through Sotheby's. Sold to Robert Garrett in 1925 by Bernard Quaritch. His gift to Princeton University Library in 1942.

Keyword:

Gold tooled bindings

illuminated manuscripts

Headbands

Gilt edges

illuminations (paintings)

Silk doublures

Missals (Service books)

decorated initials

Parchment (Paper)

Catholic Church

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

New Jersey--Princeton

Carmelites

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99119419003506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/74c9dc73-cab8-471f-8644-2c3fd5605e48/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University