Ovid — 15th century

Title

Ovid — 15th century

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 5

Associated place

Bodleian Libraries, Oxford

Date

15th century

Language

Italian

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

paper

Physical extent

iv + 42 + iileaves

Hands

Two hands.

Decoration

Frequent flourished initials in red and black ink of three lines in height.

Cadels in brown ink of three lines in height on fols. 19r and 43v.

Rubrication commonly used to mark the beginning or end of a poem.

Lesser initials commonly stroked in red, particularly on fols. 5v–6r and 8v–9r.

Sketches, doodles, pen trials, and later flourishings found on fols. 1r, 4v, 13v, 17v, 23v, 32r–33r, and 37v–38r.

Marginal manicula in ink on fols. 4v, 7r, 9v, 10v, 17r, 19r, 26v, 30v, and 34v.

Empty space at three lines in height left for initial on fol. 13v.

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Provenance

'Liber hic Jachobi Efarientis dicitur esse, Cujus si patriam cupias cognoscere, dicam ; Dectonectani castro libeat mihi dici, Tuque mihi tribuas librum tu, si invenies tu, Dictum namque duos frater tribuam tibi parvos, Nec dabo Emenidi castaneas ficus tibi causam, Ut pedibusque gulam frangat tibi mulam.'

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Title

Ovid, Heroides (fragmentary) (with Italian notes)

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 5

Date

15th century

Language

Italian

Latin

Physical extent

1 volume