Allegoriae librorum Ovidii Metamorphoseos

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Title: Allegoriae librorum Ovidii Metamorphoseos
Creator: Giovanni del Virgilio, active 1319
Contributor: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1500]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Iohannes de Virgilio (Giovanni del Virgilio, 1300-1350), Allegoriae librorum Ovidii Metamorphoseos, in prose and verse
Description: In Latin.
Watermark: tower, var. Piccard, Turmwasserzeichen 611-613; var. Briquet, 15911?.
Copied by one hand in extremely small Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria. In the poetical sections the majuscules at the opening of each verse are set apart.
Headings ("liber secundus" etc.) in clumsy Capitalis (several times erroneous: "LIBE"). Space for a 2-line initial left free on the first line of f. 1r, although this is not the beginning of the text.
Binding: Fifteenth century. Brown leather (sheepskin?) over cardboard (replacing worm-eaten wooden boards), blind-tooled with a frame of fillets and rolls; in the central panel a motif made of small rhomboid stamps. Parchment front pastedown. Remnants or marks of four clasps attached to the front cover.
Provenance: Purchased from Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley (MS 86 in his collection), on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. ii + 49 : 210 x 145 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Giovanni del Virgilio, active 1319.
Subject (Topic): Allegories
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Giovanni del Virgilio, active 1319
Allegories
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Giovanni del Virgilio, Allegoriae Librorum Ovidii Metamorphoseos. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.