- Astronomical miscellany
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- 1 volume (ii, 236, ii leaves) : parchment, illustrations ; 28 cm
- Date:
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- 1275-1325
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- Description:
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- Title from printed catalog.
- Script: Textualis libraria. By several scribes active in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.
- Decoration: Particular texts are illustrated with scientific figures and diagrams.
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- France, 18th century. Parchment over pasteboard; sewn on five alum-tawed bands; kettle stitch; no endbands.
- Provenance:
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- Garrett Ms. 99 is probably of Parisian origins, to judge from its contents. The main texts date from the 13th to 14th centuries, with extensive marginal annotations dating from the 14th and 15th centuries. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript on 25 April 1925 from the New York antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich (1865-1930). Garrett deposited the manuscript in the Princeton University Library (deposit no. 9090) in 1940. His 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. 99.
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- Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 218-223.
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