• Dialogues.

Extent:

• 1 volume (86 leaves) : parchment ; 26 cm

Date:

• 1081-1082

Language:

• Latin

Author:

• Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604

Description:

• Title from printed catalog.
• Script: Late Carolingian minuscule.
• Decoration: Plain red initials of 6 to 9 lines for the beginnings of the four books: fols. 1r, 16v, 33v, and 58r. Several 2-line litterae notabiliores, and many capitals within the text stroked with red.

Binding note:

• Germany, 13th century. Alum-tawed pigskin over beech boards (8 mm thick). The textblock was trimmed flush with the boards (255 x186 mm).

Provenance:

• Garrett MS. 70 was written in 1081-1082 by the Irish scribe Johannes [Eoin], working in the Irish Benedictine foundation in Regensburg, Germany. The Munich antiquarian bookseller Emil Hirsch (1851-1923) offered it in his catalogue Valuable manuscripts of the Middle Ages mostly illuminated (pages 12-13, no. 7, and plate xv). Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript through the New York antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich (1865-1930). Garrett's gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.

Source acquisition:

• Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.

Contributor:

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 70.

References:

• Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 137-139.

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99113159233506421