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1. Algorismus
- Creator:
- Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1460.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 977
- Image Count:
- 26
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Joannes de Sacrobosco's Algorismus vulgaris, a treatise on mathermatics, numbers, and Hindu-Arabic numerals. Here incorrectly attributed to Boethius in the opening rubric and The manuscript is a palimpsest containing portions of Ovid's Heroides: on f. 2, Epistle XVI, lines 109-172; on f. 3, Epistle XVI, lines 173-233; on f. 5, Epistle XIV, lines 79-132; on f. 7, Epistle XIII, lines 119-166; on f. 8, Epistle XVI, lines 234-297. Remaining leaves unidentified
- Alternative Title:
- Algorismus vulgaris and Algorismus Boetii incipit
- Description:
- In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger. Variant title from opening rubric., Layout: Single columns of 32 lines., Script: gothic hybrida., Decoration: rubrication., Binding: modern paper., Secundo folio: De additione., and Evidence of pricking.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boethius, -524., Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230., and Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Mathematics
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Algorismus
2. Heroides
- Creator:
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1525]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 96
- Image Count:
- 90
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- 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., and Binding: Seventeenth century, France (?). Bound in red goatskin, gold-tooled. Gilt edges. Title, much worn, on spine.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and 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, and Narrative poetry, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Heroides
3. Heroides (fragment).
- Creator:
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1350.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.39 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- text
- 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., and Labeled in a large later hand: "Ricorda...anno...161...."
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Ceffi, Filippo. and Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Heroides (fragment).
4. Heroides; Epistolae ex Ponto
- Creator:
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Published / Created:
- 1303; [between 1300 and 1315]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 479
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- 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., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Caught up sewing on four double, tawed supports. Covers wanting.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and 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, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Heroides; Epistolae ex Ponto
5. Humanist miscellany
- Published / Created:
- [between 1460 and 1740]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 873
- Image Count:
- 233
- Abstract:
- Manuscript of a collection of humanist texts, including 1) Ghigo Brunelleschi (c. 1353-c. 1410) and Domenico da Prato (c. 1389-1432/1433), Geta e Birria. 2) Nicolaus Perottus (Niccolò Perotti, 1429-1480), Latin translation of the Oath of Hippocrates, with his introductory letter to Bartolomeo Troiano of Verona. 3) Nicolaus Perottus, Letter to Iacobus Constantius (Jacopo Costanzi of Fano), written in his 25th year (1454), describing his life and how he has given himself entirely to the studia litterarum. 4) Three letters by Nicolaus Perottus to his brother Aelius (Elio Perotti). 5) Nicolaus Perottus, Letter to Iacobus Schioppus (Giacomo Schioppo), written from Bologna. 6) 8 verses recording historical examples of the power of Love. 7) Franciscus Petrarca (Petrarch, 1304-1374), Canzoniere, 136, 137 and 138. 8) Aulus Persius Flaccus (34-62), Satirae. 9) Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid, 43 B.C.-A.D. 17), Heroides, 15 (Sappho Paoni). 10) Ps.-Lucianus Samosatensis, De asino aureo, Latin translation by Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459), with introductory letter of the latter to Cosimo de' Medici. 11) Franciscus Petrarca (Petrarch), Canzoniere, 105. 12) Aristoteles, Ethica Nicomachea, Book 8, in the Latin translation by Leonardus Aretinus (Leonardo Bruni, c. 1370-1444).
- Description:
- In Latin and Italian.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy., Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459., Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444., Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D., Perotti, Niccolò, 1430-1480., Persius., and Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
- Subject (Topic):
- Humanism and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Humanist miscellany
6. Metamorphoses
- Creator:
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Published / Created:
- 1407/1408-1409.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 688
- Image Count:
- 327
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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:
- 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., and 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.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Subject (Topic):
- Classical literature, Italian poetry, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Metamorphoses
7. Metamorphoses
- Creator:
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1200]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 47
- Image Count:
- 254
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (much worn, pieced) of 1) Ovid, Tristia 1.7.35-40. 2) Ovid, Metamorphoses. With Lactantian tituli added in margins
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by at least three scribes in scripts ranging from late caroline minuscule to early gothic bookhand, all above top line. Interlinear and marginal annotations and running headlines by several hands, 13th-15th centuries., Two illuminated initials, f. 1r, severely damaged: 21-line initial I for first verse of art. 2 incorporates an elongated grotesque, originally purple, red, blue, and green on gold ground; 4-line initial at beginning of art. 1, gold on red ground with center totally effaced. 8-line initial for Bk. 2, f. 8v, gold on blue (?) ground, now rubbed: inhabited by winged grotesque biting its back with intertwining foliage in blue, green, orange and mauve on gold and red ground. Books 3-15 have attractive penwork initials divided red and medium blue with designs in both colors, ascenders and descenders often sweeping far into margins. Headings and paragraph marks in red. First letter of each verse (either set apart from text block between the first and second or placed directly on the second vertical bounding line) stroked with yellow., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Sewing, possibly original, on four kermes pink slit straps. Plain, wound endbands on tawed skin cores. Tan blind-tooled goatskin over wooden boards, also possibly original as they are cut in for the straps. Title gold-tooled on spine: "Ovidii Metam./ Saec. XV. M. S. in memb".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Lactantius, ca. 240-ca. 320. and Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin fiction, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Metamorphoses
8. Metamorphoses
- Creator:
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Published / Created:
- 1459.
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 16
- Image Count:
- 420
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Ovid, Metamorphoses. With Lactantian tituli and narrationes in margins
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: unidentified bull's head and mountain., Script: Written in a small neat gothic text hand with hybrida features., Plain red 5-line initial, in outline only, f. 3r; two smaller initials of similar style, ff. 3v-4r. First letter of each verse stroked with red, ff. 3r-4r. Spaces left for decorative initials remain unfilled elsewhere in codex., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Germany. Adhered vellum stays on the inside of the quires. Original wound sewing on three wide, tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edges of beech boards to channels on the outside and pegged. Natural color endbands, caught up on the spine, are sewn to tawed cores laced into grooves on the outside of the boards. Front pastedown: reused paper manuscript with text side pasted face down. Quarter bound in blue, tawed skin with a strip, now wanting, nailed along the edge. Two leaf-shaped catches with three five-petalled flowers on them on the lower board and the upper one cut in for kermes pink straps attached with metal plates; damage from a chain fastening at the head of this board, and the board broken; outer edge wanting. Title, in same (?) hand as on f. 1r, on upper and lower boards: "Ouidius methamorphoseos."
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin fiction, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Metamorphoses
9. Metamorphoses
- Creator:
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Published / Created:
- 1463.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 774
- Image Count:
- 390
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C. - 17 A.D.), Metamorphoses. With Franciscus de Aretio (Francesco Accolti, 1416/1417-1488), Epigramma Ovidii Metamorphoseos; Life of Ovid, based on that by Arnulf of Orléans
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in a rather irregular Humanistica Libraria of an exceptional type: Textualis with f and long s descending below the line. Opening lines of Book 1 in Capitalis., Red paragraph marks on ff. 1r-10v and 188v-189v. Spaces for headings blank. In art. 1 spaces for initials (5-11 lines) at the beginning of each Book and also on f. 10v (Metam. 1.583); the initials are not executed., and Binding: Binding of cardboard covered with fragments of a large 12th-century Italian manuscript on parchment containing the Passion of Abdon and Sennen, into which the Passion of Olympiades and Maximus is incorporated. Copied in large Southern Praegothica Formata; the text opens with a red initial. The title "OVIDIUS", preceded by a floweret, is written in ink in large capitals on the lower edge of the codex.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Subject (Topic):
- Biography, Latin fiction, Epic poetry, Latin, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Metamorphoses
