• Theological miscellany.

Extent:

• 1 volume (246 leaves) : parchment ; 17 cm

Date:

• 1075-1200

Language:

• Latin

Description:

• Title from printed catalog.
• Script: Late Carolingian minuscule (fols. 1r-40v) and Protogothic (fols. 41r-247r) written by many scribes working at different times.
• Decoration: Rubrication and initials.

Binding note:

• Austria, 15th century. Alum-tawed pigskin over beech boards (10 mm thick), top and bottom edges beveled, fore-edges square.

Provenance:

• Garrett MS. 169 was produced in the late 11th and in the 12th century, in whole or part at the Benedictine Abbey of Admont (founded in 1074), diocese of Salzburg, Austria. Five discrete parts were joined into a composite volume by 1376 at the latest, when the codex was described by Peter of Arbon in the earliest surviving Admont catalogue. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript from the London antiquarian bookseller E. P. [Ernst Philip] Goldschmidt (1887-1954) on 7 September 1936. Garrett's initials are written in ink and dated on the front pastedown. His gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.

Source acquisition:

• Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.

Former owner:

• Stift Admont

Contributor:

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 169

References:

• Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 385-389.

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99113572563506421