Lecture notes on Virgil and Cicero / Jacques Sirmond

KEYWORDS:

Extent:

Date:

Language:

Author:

Description:

Script: Secretary. Written by Michael Reginaldus. Occasional marginalia (e.g., fols. 39-41) and Greek words and phrases.
Decoration: None.

Binding note:

France, late 16th or early 17th century. Sewn on four cords laced into a limp-parchment wrapper, with the remains of two leather ties at the fore-edge.

Provenance:

Princeton Ms. 42 is Michael Reginaldus's notes on lectures given in 1582-1583 by Jacques Sirmond. Reginaldus eventually became a professor of literature and rhetoric in Paris. It is possible that Reginaldus wrote the notes at the time of the lectures, but the manuscript may be a fair copy, because the notes have few corrections, abbreviations, or obvious hallmarks of student note-taking. Intermediate provenance is unknown. The manuscript was sold on 26 March 1895 at the Phillipps sale at Sotheby's, London. The London bookseller Bernard Quaritch acquired the manuscript at the sale. Junius Spencer Morgan (1867-1932), Class of 1888, of Princeton, New Jersey, bought it and added his oval, burgundy “Collectio Virgiliana” bookplate with stag head and initials on the inside front cover. His gift to the Princeton University Library, where it was accessioned in July 1899 as no. 118262 and was catalogued as VRGMS 2945.925.

Source acquisition:

Former owner:

Contributor:

References:

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 228-229.

View in catalog: