Libro delle pistole, 1393 May 20.

Description

Title: Libro delle pistole, 1393 May 20.
Alternative Title: Heroides. Italian.
Creator: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D
Published / Created: 1393 May 20
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment in a semi-gothic cursive bookhand of an Italian translation of the Heroides.
Description: Binding: Middle Hill paper boards, grey.
Large historiated initial "A" depicting Ovid writing at his desk, set within illuminated border on f. 1.
List of contents in a contemporary hand on verso of front flyleaf.
Partially effaced ownership inscription on rear flyleaf: "1487....[Nicholas de Bernardo?]"
Phillipps MS 11865. (Number and ownership stamp on rear flyleaf.)
Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 1993.
Rubricated.
Scribal annotation on rear flyleaf: "Questo libro ascripto belloncio gherardi finito ogi questo di xx di maggio a ore xxi 1/2. 1393."
With catchwords and contemporary foliation. Some catchwords embellished with line drawings in ink.
Extent: 1 vol. (62 l. + 2 l.) ; 29 cm. x. 21 cm.
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: Italian

Format: text
Genre: Decorated initials
Hand coloring
Historiated initials
manuscripts (AAT)
Rubrics
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Ovid,--43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.--Translations
Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Ownership
Subject (Topic): Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

Access: Public
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Citation: Ovid, Libro Delle Pistole. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Orbis Record: 9357547
Object ID (OID): 10501281
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.osborn.fa33.htm