INTRODUCTION cd Overview of the Collection HERE ARE SOME 550 medieval and described (Garrett Ms. 26, Garrett Hebrew Ms. 6, Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton and Prince ton Ms. 117). Five Sammelband volumes T University Library’s Department of Rare in the Rare Books Division have been included be- Books and Special Collections, in the Harvey S. cause they contain entire manuscript texts. Descrip- Fire stone Memorial Library. Whole manuscripts tions of these volumes are at the end of the Prince- range in date from the mid-ninth century to the end ton, Kane, and Taylor series. of the sixteenth century. They originated chiefly In addition to manuscripts, the catalogue pro- in England, France, Italy, German-speaking areas, vides descriptions for several medieval documents and the Low Countries. While Latin texts are pre- with Garrett, Taylor, and Princeton shelf numbers. dominant, Prince ton has significant holdings of ver- Prince ton holds more than 5000 English, French, nacular manuscripts, especially Middle English and Italian, Spanish, and other pre-1601 documents in Old French, and smaller numbers of Italian, Span- various collections. Of necessity, it was only pos- ish, Portuguese, German, and Dutch or Flemish, as sible to survey these documentary holdings in the well as one Icelandic manuscript. Most of the man- Appendix (“Document Collections”), without uscripts described in this catalogue are in the De- providing a full listing. The John Hinsdale Scheide partment’s Manuscripts Division, including the col- Collection (c0704), the largest of these document lections of Robert Garrett (1875–1961), Prince ton collections, also includes several folders of membra Class of 1897; Grenville Kane (1854–1943); Rob- disiecta (text leaves, cuttings, and manuscript frag- ert H. Taylor (1908–1985), Class of 1930; and the ments recovered from bindings); an English statute largest series, Prince ton Medieval and Renaissance roll of ca. 1297; an Italian textual amulet of the late Manuscripts, an open collection to which newly ac- fifteenth century; and several Italian inventories quired manuscripts are added and assigned sequen- and notarial documents pertaining to ecclesiastical tial numbers. The Cotsen Children’s Library has a and private libraries. small but distinguished collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, donated by Lloyd E. MATERIALS EXCLUDED Cotsen, Class of 1950. Manuscripts are described by collection, then numerically. Several leaf collec- A number of manuscripts with Garrett, Kane, Tay- tions in the Prince ton series include more than 200 lor, and Prince ton shelf marks were excluded as separate manuscript leaves, cuttings, miniatures, being out of the scope of the catalogue.1 The cat- and fragments, some in multiple folios. Three He- alogue also excludes the hundred or so Western brew manuscripts of Western European origin are manuscripts in The Scheide Library, Princeton, a 1. These include Garrett Mss. 1–16 (Greek); Garrett Mss. and Marchese Paolino de’ Gianfillipi, of Verona; Jean Bap- 17–23 (Armenian); and Garrett Ms. 24 (Georgian, with pa- tiste Joseph Barrois (1780–1855); and Bertram Ashburn- limpsested Greek and Aramaic). Besides Garrett, the other ham, 4th Earl of Ashburnam (1797–1878). For a descrip- Greek manuscripts excluded are Princeton Mss. 5, 18, 19, tion, see Jan-Olof Tjäder, Die nichtliterarischen lateinischen 63, 81, 95, 112, 173, 176, 180, 184, 193, 195, 196, 197, 209, Papyri Italiens aus der Zeit 445–700 (Lund: Gleerup, 1954– 212, 215, and 218. Garrett Ms. 149, two fragments of a Latin 1982), 1: 384–388, 477; or go to the Prince ton University papyrus deed of the second half of the 6th century for a gift Library Papyrus Home Page, at http://www.prince ton.edu/ to a church in Ravenna, has also been omitted. This papy- papyrus. Garrett Mss. 162 and 165 are documents dated 1692 rus was formerly in the collections of Giovanni Saibante, and 1606, respectively, and are therefore too late for the { xi } xii Introduction distinguished private library that has been on de- May 1524 and signed by several people, including posit in the Prince ton University Library for more Pedro de Alvarado (1485?–1541), the conquista- than forty years.2 Byzantine and post-Byzantine dor of Guatemala. This manuscript was formerly Greek manuscripts in the Manuscripts Division owned by the French ethnographers Charles- (primarily in the Garrett and Princeton series) have Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814–1874) and been excluded from the catalogue because they are Alphonse Pinart (1852–1911). Other manuscripts described in Greek Manuscripts at Princeton, Sixth include a treatise in Pokonchí with musical notation to Nineteenth Centuries: A Descriptive Catalogue, by for teaching plain chant, 1595, by Dionisio de Zúñiga Sofia Kotzabassi and Nancy Ševčenko, with col- (ca. 1550 – ca. 1620); and a number of bilingual glos- laboration of Don C. Skemer (Prince ton, N.J.: De- saries, such as a Fray Félix Solano, Vocabulario en partment of Art and Archaeology and Program in lengua castellana. There is also an Andalusian Arabic Hellenic Studies, in association with Princeton Uni- medical manuscript of 1480 from Valencia (Garrett versity Press, 2010). Islamic Ms. 562h), annotated in Latin and Spanish Among manuscripts excluded from the present in the 1540s–1560s, concerning which see Don C. catalogue are a dozen pre-1601 Meso american man- Skemer, “An Arabic Manuscript before the Spanish uscripts. These are among the approximately 275 Inquisition,” pulc 64, no. 1 (2002), pp. 107–120. items in the Garrett, Garrett-Gates, and Prince ton Also excluded are incunables and other early Mesoamerican collections of manuscripts in the na- printed books in the Rare Books Division and other tive languages of the Americas. The manuscripts units of the Department of Rare Books and Special are written in Latin script, often by native scribes, Collections with pre-1601 annotations, text written with some brief Latin and Spanish text and loan on pastedowns and flyleaves, hand-written scholarly words. Many were collected by William E. (Ed- apparatus (e.g., index or table of contents), medi- mond) Gates (1863–1940), then acquired by Rob- eval manuscript leaves used as covers and endleaves, ert Garrett. There are four manuscripts of Domingo and other manuscripts fragments used as binding de Vico (1485–1555), Teologia indorum, in K’iche’ waste.³ There is one manuscript in the Marquand Maya; and a miscellany of ca. 1590 kept by a Fran- Library of Art and Archeology (“Armoir[es] des ciscan friar in New Spain and containing Nahuatl famil[les] des Pays Bas,” a late sixteenth-century ar- translations and cycles of Spanish sermons and ser- morial manuscript, probably copied from Brussels, mon notes. A sixteenth-century manuscript, Titulos Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier, ms. 15652–15656; de los señores del Reino del Quiché, includes a narra- gift of Alan Marquand, sams 1042.129q). Also out tive account in Spanish of the first conquest of the of scope are nearly thirty medieval manuscripts and highlands by the K’iche’; the manuscript is dated 7 eighty illuminated leaves in the Prince ton Univer- catalogue. Seymour de Ricci, vol. 2, p. 1899, listed two dif- American petroleum industry when it was still centered in ferent descriptions for the Arte del navigare manuscript under the area of Titusville, Pennsylvania, allowed him to begin the numbers Kane Ms. 53 and Kane Ms. 54; the error was collecting in the late 1880s; his son John Hinsdale Scheide noticed when Princeton acquired the Kane Collection, and (Class of 1896); and grandson William H. Scheide (Class the number for Kane Ms. 53 was vacated. Kane Ms. 58, a of 1936). Concerning the library, see Julian P. Boyd, The miniature of the naval battle of L’Écluse, or Sluys (24 June Scheide Library: A Summary View of Its History and Its Out­ 1340), which de Ricci described as “probably from a Frois- standing Books, together with an Account of Its Two Founders, sart ms., France, ca. 1460(?) or possibly later,” was excluded William Taylor Scheide and John Hinsdale Scheide (Prince ton, because it is the work of the Spanish Forger. A number of N.J.: n.p., 1947); For William H. Scheide: Fifty Years of Col­ 17th-century manuscripts (formerly Prince ton Mss. 12, 50, lecting: 6 January 2004 (Prince ton, N.J.: Prince ton Univer- 91, 113, 118) were transferred from the Prince ton series to sity Library, 2004); Paul Needham, The Invention and Early c0199 (General Manuscripts Bound), a general collection Spread of European Printing as Represented in the Scheide Li­ of more than 1,500 bound manuscripts written after 1601. brary (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Library, 2007). A 1615 English manuscript (formerly Taylor Ms. 8) was 3. There has never been a full-scale survey of the innumer- moved to the post-1601 portion of the Robert H. Taylor able early printed books with annotations in the Department Collection of English and American Literature (rtc 01). of Rare Books and Special Collections. Some of the better- 2. The Scheide family has acquired the rich holdings of known ones include Homer editions extensively annotated the Scheide Library over three generations. The collectors by the Renaissance humanists Guillaume Budé (1468–1540) are William T. Scheide, whose good fortune in the early and Martin Crusius (1526–1607). Introduction xiii sity Art Museum; and about twelve manuscripts in his family claimed descent from an Andorran fam- the Special Collections Department of the Prince- ily named Pino. Among illuminated manuscripts ton Theological Seminary Library. donated by Pyne are a fourteenth-century Italian pontifical, which seems to have made its way from Naples to the Kingdom of Aragon (Princeton Ms. FORMATION OF THE 7), and a Spanish missal, Use of Seville, from the COLLECTION 1420s (Princeton Ms. 9). Other early Princeton col- lectors supported the University’s efforts to turn a The Prince ton University Library’s medieval and small liberal arts college into a research university Renaissance manuscript collections began around by providing faculty and students in the humanities 1876 with the acquisition of two fifteenth-century with rare and unique collections.