• Chronica de rebus Glastoniensis / John of Glastonbury

Extent:

• 1 volume (155 leaves) : parchment ; 32 cm

Date:

• 1497

Language:

• Latin

Author:

• Joannes, Glastoniensis

Description:

• Script: Textualis semi-quadrata.
• Decoration: The prologue (fol. 2v) begins with a 3-line floriated initial U (“Universis patribus ...”) in burnished gold, on a burgundy, orange, rose, blue, and green square field, and black penwork sprays decorated with gold extending into the margins.

Binding note:

• England, 15th century. Quarter-sawn oak boards (9 mm thick) covered in brown-stained leather (probably sheepskin); rebacked.

Provenance:

• Garrett MS. 153 is one of seven largely complete copies of John of Glastonbury's chronicle. It was copied at the Benedictine Abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Glastonbury, Somerset. The monk William Wyche had it copied for Richard Bere (d. 1524), abbot of Glastonbury, 1493-1524, as indicated in the colophon on fol. 139v. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript from the London antiquarian bookseller Bernard Quaritch on 10 August 1928. Garrett's gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.

Source acquisition:

• Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.

Contributor:

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 153

References:

• Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 356-359.

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• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99113479023506421