• Poetria nova / Geoffrey of Vinsauf

Collections:
  • Robert Garrett
  • Manuscripts (Welcome Additions Exhibition)
  • Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
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Language:
  • Latin
Creator:
  • Geoffrey, of Vinsauf, active 1200
Call number:
  • Garrett MS. 121
Extent:
  • 1 volume (i, 73, i leaves) : parchment ; 26 cm
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Description:
  • Title from printed catalog.
  • Script: At least two scribes wrote the main text. Scribe 1 uses southern Textualis libraria, fols. 1r-6v (quire 1), 15r-34v (quires 3, 4, and first half of 5). Scribe 2, writing Textualis libraria bordering on Semi-textualis, copied fols. 7r-14v (quire 2), and fols. 34v-73r.
  • Decoration: 1- to 2-line red initials in margins to mark sections; occasionally red paraph marks instead. Several decorative maniculae and brackets around lines of note drawn in black ink by a later reader.
Publisher:
  • [Italy] : [producer not identified], [between 1350 and 1400]
Subject:
  • Poetics—Early works to 1800
  • Rhetoric—Early works to 1800
  • Didactic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
  • Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—Italy
  • Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton
  • Illumination of books and manuscripts
Title sort:
  • Poetria nova / Geoffrey of Vinsauf.
Spatial:
  • Italy
  • New Jersey
Binding note:
  • Italy, 19th century. Reddish and yellow marbled paper over pasteboard.
Provenance:
  • Garrett MS. 121 is of unknown early and intermediate provenance. The parchment is from a palimpsested account register giving personal names and sums of money (“libr.”) in Italian and Latin. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript from Olschki and placed it on deposit (GD no. 970). Garrett's bookplate is on the front pastedown. His gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.
References:
  • Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 274-275.
Author:
  • Geoffrey, of Vinsauf, active 1200
Created:
  • 1350-01-01T00:00:00Z/1400-12-31T23:59:59Z
Date:
  • 1350-1400
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/0p096d176
Location:
  • HSVM Garrett MS. 121
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Type:
  • Early works to 1800
Uniform title:
  • Poetria nova
Range label:
  • Logical
Bookseller:
  • Leo S. Olschki (Firm)
Contributor:
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 121
Donor:
  • Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961