Heroides

Description

Title: Heroides
Creator: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Published / Created: [between 1500 and 1525]
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Ovid, Heroides 16 (Paris to Helen) 1-38, 145-378, with an unidentified French translation. Latin text, which is written only on the verso of each leaf, faces the French translation, which is written on the recto of each leaf
Description: In French and Latin.
Script: Latin text written in a round humanistic script much influenced by printing; Scribe 1) ff. 1v-21v and Scribe 2) ff. 22r-36r. French text written in upright batarde; Scribe 1) ff. 2r-22r and Scribe 2) ff. 22r-36r (a more flamboyant style of script).
Two initials, one at beginning of Latin text (2-line), the other at the beginning of French text (3-line), respectively gold on blue square ground with gold filigree and gold on dark red square ground with gold filigree. Most stanzas introduced by paragraph marks in gold on blue or red alternating grounds, with gold filigree. First letter of each verse stroked with yellow, as are usually majuscules in text. Headings on ff. 1v and 2r in red.
Binding: Seventeenth century, France (?). Bound in red goatskin, gold-tooled. Gilt edges. Title, much worn, on spine.
Provenance: Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1956 by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. i + ii + 36 + ii + ii : 211 x 142 (148 x 195) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French

Genre: Translations
Manuscripts, Renaissance France 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Literature, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Narrative poetry, Latin
Subjects: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Literature, Medieval > Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Narrative poetry, Latin
France > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Ovid, Heroides. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.