Metamorphoses

Description

Title: Metamorphoses
Creator: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Contributor: Accolti, Francesco, 1416 or 1417-1488.
Arnulfus, Aurelianensis, active 12th century.
Published / Created: 1463.
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C. - 17 A.D.), Metamorphoses. With Franciscus de Aretio (Francesco Accolti, 1416/1417-1488), Epigramma Ovidii Metamorphoseos; Life of Ovid, based on that by Arnulf of Orléans
Description: In Latin.
Script: Copied by one hand in a rather irregular Humanistica Libraria of an exceptional type: Textualis with f and long s descending below the line. Opening lines of Book 1 in Capitalis.
Red paragraph marks on ff. 1r-10v and 188v-189v. Spaces for headings blank. In art. 1 spaces for initials (5-11 lines) at the beginning of each Book and also on f. 10v (Metam. 1.583); the initials are not executed.
Binding: Binding of cardboard covered with fragments of a large 12th-century Italian manuscript on parchment containing the Passion of Abdon and Sennen, into which the Passion of Olympiades and Maximus is incorporated. Copied in large Southern Praegothica Formata; the text opens with a red initial. The title "OVIDIUS", preceded by a floweret, is written in ink in large capitals on the lower edge of the codex.
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. i + 189 + i : 280 x 205 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Subject (Topic): Biography
Latin fiction
Epic poetry, Latin
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Biography > Middle Ages, 500-1500
Latin fiction
Epic poetry, Latin
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Ovid, Metamorphoses. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.