Tibullus, Martial, Beccadelli, Pontano, etc.; Italy, late 15th century

Title

Tibullus, Martial, Beccadelli, Pontano, etc.; Italy, late 15th century

Shelfmark

MS. D'Orville 167

Associated place

Milan

Date

15th century, late (c. 1480?)

Language

Italian

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

paper

Physical extent

iii + 157 leaves

Hands

Humanistic cursive.

Decoration

Coloured initials.

Rubrics.

Acquisition

Acquired by the Bodleian in 1804.

Provenance

Date: cf. F. R. Hausmann, ‘Datierte Quattrocento Handschriften Lateinischer Dichter’, in Kontinuitat Und Wandel. Lateinische Poesie Von Naevius Bis Baudelaire. Franco Munari Zum 65. Geburtstag, 1986, with references.

'Est Dionysij Aelij a Lancino Curtio suo' (early 16th cent. ?); i.e. Dionigi Ello, from Lancino Curzio, 1462-1512, both of Milan; see Arnaldo Ganda, 'La biblioteca latina del poeta milanese Lancino Corte (1462-1512)', La Bibliofilía, 93/3 (Settembre-Dicembre 1991), 221-277 at 225-6.

Johannes de Witt, 1678-1734; his sale, Bibliotheca Wittiana (1736), p. 75 n. 279

Bought by Jacques Phillippe D'Orville of Amsterdam (1690–1751) (MS. D'Orville 302 fol. 37r).

Jean D'Orville, b. 1734, his son, by descent.

Jean D'Orville, son of Jean, by descent.

Sold to the Rev. John Cleaver Banks (1765/6–1845): purchased from him by the Bodleian.

Title

Latin poetry extracts

Shelfmark

MS. D'Orville 167

Summary

Comprises:

(fol. 1) '...Tibullus poeta clarus', the Elegies, from i. 34, a leaf being lost at the beginning: the epitaph and short life follow

(fol. 52v) '... Nonnulla [P. Ovidii] Nasonis de sine titulo', extracts from the Amores, etc.

(fol. 60) 'Priapeia [P. Vergilii] Maronis', of uncertain author ship: followed at fol. 75 by a similar poem beg. 'Photis noster amor') and at fol. 78 by four Latin epitaphs, three connected with Atimetus and Homonoea 'in templo Sancti Michaelis Romae': one 'in Sancto Maiore Maria' at Rome (?), beg. 'Ingratae Veneri.'

(fol. 78v) 'Martialis', 50 epigrams, followed by three Latin facetiae in verse beg. 'Qui fungi', 'Arbore sub quadam', 'Hic patule'

(fol. 90) ' (Antonii Panormitae) Hermafroditi liber primus' et alter, poematum

(fol. 120v) 'Porcelius vates Romanus ...', some Latin poems by Petrus Porcelius

(fol. 139) 'Ioviani Pontani libellus amorum cui titulus est Parthonopeus ...'; some leaves are wanting after fol. 150, which ends 'nemorum deserta colebas.'

On fol. iiv are eight Italian verses by Petrarch: beg. 'Rota e lalta colona el verde lauro.'.

'Est Dionysij Aelij a Lancino Curtio suo' (early 16th cent. ?).

Date

written early in the 16th cent. in Italy

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On paper

Physical extent

157 Leaves