Manuscripts

Princeton, University Library, MS Garrett 70

  • Latin, Irish
  • c. 1082
  • Continental manuscripts containing Irish, Continental manuscripts containing Irish

A copy of Gregory's Dialogues and the Visio Karoli.

Identifiers
Location
Collection: Robert Garrett collection
Shelfmark
Garrett 70
Type
theological and exegetical literature visions and eschatology
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Latin Secondary: Irish
Date
c. 1082
c. 1082.
Origin, provenance
Origin: GermanyGermany
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Regensburg
Ratisbon ... Regensburg
Bavarian city.

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Provenance: Czech RepublicCzech Republic
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Vyšší BrodVyšší Brod
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Vyšší Brod (Hohenfurt, Bohemia). The MS was still here when Raphael Pavel consulted it for his catalogue description (publ. 1891).
Later provenance: ass. with Voynich (W. M.)Voynich (W. M.)
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Garrett (Robert)Garrett (Robert)
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The American athlete and banker Robert Garrett (1875–1961) acquired the manuscript from W. M. Voynich. In 1942, he donated his vast collection of manuscripts, incl. the present MS, to Princeton University.
Hands, scribes
Hands indexed:
Hand 1 (ff. 1r-86r)

An Irish scribe who signs as Iohannes. See the colophon on f. 86rb.

Iohannes [Irish scribe]Iohannes ... Irish scribe
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Hand 2 (f. 86rb)
Hand 3 (f. 86v)

One or possibly two hands responsible for adding the Visio Karoli, dated by Hoffmann to c.1100 and described by him as writing “im wesentlichen des bayerischen schrägovalen Stils”.

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Sources

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Digitisation wanted
[ed.] Lash, Elliott, “Princeton MS. Garrett 70 (1081–82) and other Regensburg manuscripts as witnesses to an Irish intercessory formula and the linguistic features of late-eleventh-century Middle Irish”, Peritia 31 (2020): 165–192.  
abstract:
The Irish/Latin bilingual notes in Princeton MS. Garrett 70 are edited with a discussion of the linguistic details found therein. The eDIL entry for impide ‘intercession’ is updated. Additionally, a linguistic profile of the late eleventh century is created based on the Regensburg manuscripts and other contemporary autographed manuscripts.
New edition of the glosses. Not seen.
[ed.] Meyer, Kuno, “Neu aufgefundene altirische Glossen”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 8 (1912): 173–177.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
177 Irish glosses (provisional), photographs of which were provided by the librarian Philibert Panhölzl.

Secondary sources (select)

Skemer, Don C., Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, 2 vols, Publications of the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ: Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 2013.  
abstract:
This two-volume catalogue is the first comprehensive scholarly description of the Western medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, one of the finest collections in America. The rich holdings comprise more than 420 manuscripts in the Robert Garrett, Grenville Kane, Robert Taylor, Cotsen Library, and Princeton collections; manuscripts bound with incunables in the Rare Books Division; hundreds of single leaves and cuttings; and about 5,000 original documents in six other collections. The catalogue offers full textual, paleographic, codicological, art-historical, and iconographical descriptions; detailed provenance notes; and full bibliographies. About a third are illuminated manuscripts, which are selectively illustrated in the catalogue’s 128 color plates, which contain nearly 400 images.
Vol. 1, 137–139 Not seen.
Hoffmann, Hartmut, “Irische Schreiber in Deutschland im 11. Jahrhundert”, Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 59 (2003): 97–120.
DigiZeitschriften: <link>
108
De Ricci, Seymour, and W. J. Wilson, Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 2 vols, Reprint ed., New York: Kraus, 1961.
877
Pavel, Raphael, “Beschreibung der im Stifte Hohenfurt befindlichen Handschriften”, in: Die Handschriften-Verzeichnisse der Cistercienser-Stifte, 2 vols, vol. 2: Wilhering, Schlierbach, Ossegg, Hohenfurt, Stams, 2.2, Vienna, 1891. 165–223, 224–346, 347–461 (index).
Internet Archive: <link>
194–195
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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March 2012, last updated: August 2023