Metamorphoses
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2004169
Description
- Title
- Metamorphoses
- Creator
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Contributor
- Bonsignori, Giovanni.
- Published / Created
- 1407/1408-1409.
- Publication Place
- Central Italy (Florence?)
- Abstract
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Manuscript on paper of Ovid, Metamorphoses, translated into Italian and with allegorical interpretations by Giovanni Bonsignori (Citta di Castello, d. after 1377), finished 29/30 Nov. 1377. With various Italian poems by different poets. The scribe Giovanni Tolosini did the copying from an Apulian exemplar and at the request of Chirico di Pietro Tolosini
- Description
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In Italian.
Watermarks: Briquet 8348 and 11868-11869 (?).
Script: Copied by Giovanni Tolosini in very small Gothica Semihybrida Libraria/Currens (Mercantesca).
Headings in black up to f. 27v, afterwards in red. Heightening of majuscules in yellow up to f. 27v. 3- (sometimes 4- or 5-) line flourished initials alternately in red with blue penwork and blue with red penwork, with penwork extensions in the left margin or in the intercolumnar space. Large decorated flourished initials with developed and diversified penwork (c. 7 lines) in the same colours.
The upper edges damaged by moist, especially in the fold.
Binding: Fifteenth century. Half leather (red-brown goatskin, which replaces an original wider piece of leather) with unbevelled wooden boards and remnants of two clasps attached to the front cover. Bound on three white leather thongs. On the spine a paper label with the handwritten 18th-century inscription "Metam. d'Ovidi[o]". On the front board the number "45" is written in ink; on the inner side of the rear board a 5-line account in Italian, 16th century, by the same hand (?) as copied the latter part of art. 8. - Provenance
- Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
- Extent
- ff. i + i + 160 + ii : 300 x 220 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Italian
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 688
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Subject (Topic)
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Classical literature
Italian poetry
Literature, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Classical literature
Italian poetry > To 1400
Literature, Medieval > Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Ovid, Metamorphoses. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9645806
- Object ID (OID)
- 2004169
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