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Works : manuscript, [before 1471]

Title
Works : manuscript, [before 1471]

Alternative Title: Phillipps MS 9045

Alternative Title: Works. Latin
Creator / Contributor
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
Place of Origin
Italy
Language
Latin
Description
Extent: 322 leaves, bound : vellum, paper ; 35 cm.
print
Abstract
1. Heroides (ff. 1r-56r) -- 2. Ars amatoria (56v-94r) -- 3. Remedia amoris (94r-107r) -- 4. Fasti (107r-190r) -- 5. Tristia (190v-248r) -- 6. Epistulae ex Ponto (248r-300r) -- 7. Epistula Sapphus, Heroides 15 (300r-303v) -- 8. De cuculo, or Conflictus veris et hiemis (303v-304v) -- 9. Ibis (305r-314v) -- 10. Ad Liviam augustam consolatio (314v-321v).
Genre
Manuscripts, Medieval-Italy-1450-1500.
Manuscripts, Renaissance-Italy-1450-1500.
Illuminations.
Palimpsests.
Rules (layout features)
Catchwords.
Hairside.
Mixed materials (writing material)
Notes
Written in northern Italy, possibly Verona, in a humanistic script and probably dated before 1471 when this manuscript was used for textual edition; contains 3 white vinestem decorated initials.
Mostly on paper, interspersed with 100 (chiefly palimpsest) vellum leaves.
In a 15th-cent. Italian leather binding with blind tooling and four metal corner ornaments.
In a protective tray case, 38 cm.
MS Lat 42. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Also available in an electronic version.
Series
Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Repository
Houghton Library, Harvard University

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