- Poetria nova / Geoffrey of Vinsauf
- Collections:
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- Robert Garrett
- Manuscripts (Welcome Additions Exhibition)
- Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
- View in catalog:
- Language:
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- Latin
- Creator:
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- Geoffrey, of Vinsauf, active 1200
- Call number:
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- Garrett MS. 120
- Extent:
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- 1 volume (iii, 77, iii leaves) : parchment ; 23 cm
- Format:
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- Manuscript
- Book
- Description:
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- Title from printed catalog.
- Script: Semi-textualis libraria, with cursive glossing script.
- Decoration: Preface opens with an 11-line P, the tail of which extends the length of the text, in red with triangle-shaped wedges along the stem left unpainted; the whole surrounded with penwork flourishes in brown ink. Each of the four parts opens with 2-line unflourished red initial. Minor division marked with 1-line red initials.
- Publisher:
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- [Ravenna?, Italy] : [producer not identified], [between 1350 and 1400]
- Subject:
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- 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:
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- Poetria nova / Geoffrey of Vinsauf.
- Spatial:
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- Italy
- New Jersey
- Binding note:
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- England, 19th century. Paper cover over pasteboard.
- Provenance:
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- Garrett Ms. 120 is of unknown early and intermediate provenance, although the commentary by Benedict of Aquileia would point to Ravenna. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript on 25 April 1925 from the New York antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich (1865-1930). Garrett's gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.
- Source acquisition:
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- Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.
- References:
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- Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 272-273.
- Author:
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- Geoffrey, of Vinsauf, active 1200
- Created:
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- 1350-01-01T00:00:00Z/1400-12-31T23:59:59Z
- Date:
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- 1350-1400
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/4f16c8079
- Location:
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- HSVM Garrett MS. 120
- Edm rights:
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- No Known Copyright
- Type:
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- Early works to 1800
- Uniform title:
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- Poetria nova
- Range label:
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- Logical
- Bookseller:
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- Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930
- Contributor:
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- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 120
- Donor:
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- Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961