Ovid, Ps.-Ovid — 1466; Italian, Mantua (?)
MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 11
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Description
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Title
Ovid, Ps.-Ovid — 1466; Italian, Mantua (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 11
Place of origin
Italian, Mantua (?)
Date
12th century
1466
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
paper
Physical extent
viii + 88 + i
Hands
Written in humanistic script by Guido Galeazzo de Pretis at the age of fifteen, fol. 83v.
Decoration
Good historiated initials. Sketch, 16th century. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 395, pl. XXXVIII) fol. 1r initial T: Germanicus Caesar and Ovid fol. 13r initial I: Janus (head with two profile faces). fol. 27v initial B: Mars (man in armour holding a spear). fol. 42r initial A: Venus as a young woman in red dress; Cupid blindfolded, holding bow and arrow; another winged putto fol. 70r initial H: Young man in short tunic.
Coloured coat of arms.
Rubrics.
Acquisition
Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817
Provenance
Arms of Preti of Mantua.
Initials Gui ga added (?), fol. 1
Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805
Giuseppe Canonici , -1807
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Title
Ovid, Fasti and Ps.-Ovid, De pulice
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 11
Date
1466
Language
Latin
Physical extent
1 volume
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Collection contents
Canonici Latin Classical
Ovid, Fasti and Ps.-Ovid, De pulice
