Heroides; Epistolae ex Ponto

Description

Title: Heroides; Epistolae ex Ponto
Creator: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Published / Created: 1303; [between 1300 and 1315]
Publication Place: Rheims
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment, composed of two parts. Part I (ff. 1-44): Ovid, Heroides I-XIV; XVI-XXI (line 12). Part II (ff. 46-82): Ovid, Epistolae ex Ponto, I.1-IV.16. For the first eight letters, a brief introductory paragraph, written by the same scribe as the text, appears in outer margin
Description: In Latin.
Script: Both parts written by one scribe (Part I dated 1303) whose hand is characterized by an unusually tall double compartment a. Notes were added to the parchment pastedowns, now the flyleaves, in the 15th century.
Decorative initials, 4-line, body split red and blue, with neat penwork flourishes, in red (ff. 1r, 46r); plain initials, 3- to 2-line, alternate red and blue for each letter throughout text; first letter of each verse placed on middle ruling of three vertical bounding lines.
Stains in upper margin result in some loss of text.
Binding: Fifteenth century. Caught up sewing on four double, tawed supports. Covers wanting.
Provenance: Purchased from H.P. Kraus in 1970 with the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. i + 82 + i : 187 x 66 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Beinecke MS 479
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Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval France 14th 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): Elegiac poetry, Latin
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin letters
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Elegiac poetry, Latin
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin letters
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
France > 14th 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.