- Dialogues.
- Extent:
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- 1 volume (86 leaves) : parchment ; 26 cm
- Date:
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- 1081-1082
- Language:
- Author:
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- Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
- Description:
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- 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:
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- Germany, 13th century. Alum-tawed pigskin over beech boards (8 mm thick). The textblock was trimmed flush with the boards (255 x186 mm).
- Provenance:
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- 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:
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- Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.
- Contributor:
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- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 70.
- References:
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- Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 137-139.
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