Princeton University, Garrett MS. 67
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS2213
- Shelfmark:
- Garrett MS. 67
- Title:
- Evsebii Caesariensis De Evangelica Praeparatione Liber
- Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 260-approximately 340
- Place:
- Padua, Italy
- Date:
- between 1475 and 1500
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- parchment, illustrations
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 314 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 280 x 210 (178 x 115-120) mm bound to 297 x 220 mm.
- Former Owner(s):
- Coppo family
Giometti, Pietro, 1812-1859
Boncompagni, Baldasarre, 1821-1894
Dunn, George, 1864-1912
- Note:
- Incipit: "Qvom qvid sit Christianismvs nescientibus aperire statuerim hunc librum quo euangelicae doctrinę ueritatem approbamus....”
Explicit: : “...qui nec sensu, nec ratione quicquam posse comprehendi docentes magno risu omnium explosi sunt. Liber Quartusdecimus et Vltimvs Explicit Foeliciter. Deo Gratias Amen. ”
Ms. codex.
Title from caption (fol. 3b).
Marginal notes and corrections. Contains a dedicatory preface by George of Trebizond addressed to Pope Nicholas V "Ad Sanctissimvm Papam Nicolaum V Georgii Trapezvntii in Tradvctionem Evsebii Praefacio" (folio 2r-3v). Title written on the lower edge: “EVSEBIVS.”
Collation: Parchment ; fols. i (contemporary parchment) + 314 (modern foliation, fols. 2–313; fols. 236 and 299 twice) + i (contemporary parchment) ; catchwords at end of quires ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 26 long lines per page.
Description: Running titles and rubrics in red ink.
Decoration: Characteristic of Padua in the style of simple roman capitals on a colored field decorated with interlaced knot patterns. Eight-line initial E (“Eusebius,” fol. 2r) in red on blue ground with gold frame, outlined in black and with infilling of red and green interlace; on upper and inner margins, blue borders decorated with red and green interlace on gold and with three parrots; on...
Origin: Written and decorated in Padua in the late 15th century.
Owned by the Coppo family of Venice; Pietro Giometti; from 1862 owned by Baldasarre Boncompagni; 1902 acquired by George Dunn; sold 1913 by Sotheby's, London to Maggs Bros.; purchased by Robert Garrett from the bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich. Garrett's gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99113127023506421
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d6df8784-4a4d-448b-88f8-2fbfc387633e/manifest
- Holding Institution:
