Heroides (fragment).

Description

Title: Heroides (fragment).
Creator: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Published / Created: approximately 1350.
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript bifolium on parchment, containing text from the Heroides, with the text of the Italian prose translation by Filippo Ceffi framing it in the margins
Description: In Latin and Italian.
Script: gothica textualis rotunda italiana.
Decoration: capitals touched in yellow ink. Headings in red ink.
Labeled in a large later hand: "Ricorda...anno...161...."
Provenance: Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1994.
Extent: 1 bifolium : 347 mm x 485 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin
Italian

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: text
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Ceffi, Filippo.
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Ceffi, Filippo
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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