• Monastic miscellany.

Extent:

• 1 volume (i 197, i leaves) : parchment, illustrations ; 20 cm

Date:

• 1100-1600

Language:

• Latin

Description:

• Script: Manuscripts in this composite volume are in different bookhands: no. 7, Carolingian minuscule, 10th century; nos. 2-6, Protogothic, 12th/13th century; and no. 1, Textualis rotunda, 15th century.
• Decoration: The Catholic Epistles (fols. 27v-100v) are decorated with anthropomorphic and zoömorphic initials at the beginning of each epistle: James, fol. 27v (man blessing as initial I); 1 Peter, fol. 45r (two lions forming P); 2 Peter, fol. 62v, (man with initial S); 1 John, 74r, (dog with foliate tail, Q); 2 John, fol. 91v (foliate letter S); 3 John, fol. 93v (foliate letter S); Jude, fol. 96r (foliate I with lion head).

Binding note:

• Italy, 17th century (?). Blind-tooled brown calf over pasteboard. The textblock is sewn on three bands; endbands with secondary sewing in green and tan. Spine title (written in brown ink): “Opusc. Divers.”

Provenance:

• Princeton MS. 16 is a composite volume from the Cistercian Abbey of Santa Maria di Morimondo, near Milan. The manuscript was owned by the monastery and at least in part produced there. The manuscript was acquired together with over 200 books from Morimondo by the bookseller Ulrico Hoepli (1847-1935), of Milan. Purchased by the Princeton University Library in 1893 (Acc. no. 88330). Other Morimondo manuscripts now in the Manuscripts Division are Princeton Mss. 2, 3, 4, 6; Kane Ms. 1.

Source acquisition:

• Gift George Henry Boker.

Former owner:

• Abbazia di Morimondo

Contributor:

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 16.

References:

• Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 180-182.

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99114388523506421