Allegoriae librorum Ovidii Metamorphoseos

Description

Title: Allegoriae librorum Ovidii Metamorphoseos
Creator: Giovanni del Virgilio, fl. 1319
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D
Contributor: Giovanni del Virgilio,--fl. 1319
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1500]
Publication Place: Italy,
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Iohannes de Virgilio (Giovanni del Virgilio, 1300-1350), Allegoriae librorum Ovidii Metamorphoseos, in prose and verse.
Description: Binding: Fifteenth century. Brown leather (sheepskin?) over cardboard (replacing worm-eaten wooden boards), blind-tooled with a frame of fillets and rolls; in the central panel a motif made of small rhomboid stamps. Parchment front pastedown. Remnants or marks of four clasps attached to the front cover.
Copied by one hand in extremely small Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria. In the poetical sections the majuscules at the opening of each verse are set apart.
Headings (“liber secundus” etc.) in clumsy Capitalis (several times erroneous: “LIBE”). Space for a 2-line initial left free on the first line of f. 1r, although this is not the beginning of the text.
Watermark: tower, var. Piccard, Turmwasserzeichen 611-613; var. Briquet, 15911?.
Extent: ff. ii + 49 : paper ; 210 x 145 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: still image and text
Genre: Manuscripts
Material: paper and still
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Giovanni del Virgilio,--fl. 1319
Subject (Topic): Allegories
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Giovanni del Virgilio, Allegoriae Librorum Ovidii Metamorphoseos. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Orbis Record: 9867986
Object ID (OID): 10923622
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/MS758.pdf