Ovid — 15th century, beginning; Italian, North-west

Title

Ovid — 15th century, beginning; Italian, North-west

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 8

Associated place

Voghera

Place of origin

Italian, North-west

Date

15th century, beginning

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

48leaves

Hands

Southern textualis; apparently written by Vianinus de Rampinis (see provenance; Pächt and Alexander ii. 775)

Decoration

Good border.

Good historiated initial. (Pächt and Alexanderii. 775): fol. 1r, initial H, half-figure of a young woman (Penelope)

Coloured red initials, rubrics.

Binding

Red leather over bevelled wooden (medieval?) boards, with thin gilt roll around the edges; Italian, 18th century.

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Provenance

Iste liber est mei Johannis Antonii necnon Vianini de Rampinis, qui pergimus ad scolas domini magistri Antonii de Nigris, qui est bonus magister in sua Gramaticha et in sua Loyca necnon in ejus scientia, ete.; Antonio de Nigris was master of a grammar school at Voghera, near Pavia, in the early 15th century (G. Casalis, Dizionario geografico-storico-statistico-commerciale degli stati, XXVI (1854), p. 309).

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Title

Ovid, Heroides

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 8

Date

15th century, beginning

Language

Latin

Physical extent

1 volume