Metamorphoses
Found In:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Metamorphoses
11403193
Description
- Title
- Metamorphoses
- Creator
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1200]
- Publication Place
- France or Italy (?)
- Abstract
-
Manuscript on parchment (much worn, pieced) of 1) Ovid, Tristia 1.7.35-40. 2) Ovid, Metamorphoses. With Lactantian tituli added in margins
- Description
-
In Latin.
Script: Written by at least three scribes in scripts ranging from late caroline minuscule to early gothic bookhand, all above top line. Interlinear and marginal annotations and running headlines by several hands, 13th-15th centuries.
Two illuminated initials, f. 1r, severely damaged: 21-line initial I for first verse of art. 2 incorporates an elongated grotesque, originally purple, red, blue, and green on gold ground; 4-line initial at beginning of art. 1, gold on red ground with center totally effaced. 8-line initial for Bk. 2, f. 8v, gold on blue (?) ground, now rubbed: inhabited by winged grotesque biting its back with intertwining foliage in blue, green, orange and mauve on gold and red ground. Books 3-15 have attractive penwork initials divided red and medium blue with designs in both colors, ascenders and descenders often sweeping far into margins. Headings and paragraph marks in red. First letter of each verse (either set apart from text block between the first and second or placed directly on the second vertical bounding line) stroked with yellow.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Sewing, possibly original, on four kermes pink slit straps. Plain, wound endbands on tawed skin cores. Tan blind-tooled goatskin over wooden boards, also possibly original as they are cut in for the straps. Title gold-tooled on spine: "Ovidii Metam./ Saec. XV. M. S. in memb". - Provenance
- Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 9033). Sold by W. H. Robinson to H. P. Kraus, from whom it was purchased in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston.
- Extent
- ff. i + i + 120 + i : 295 x 160 (225 x ca. 65) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Marston MS 47
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Manuscripts, Medieval France 13th century
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
-
Lactantius, ca. 240-ca. 320.
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. - Subject (Topic)
-
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin fiction
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
-
Lactantius, ca. 240-ca. 320
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin fiction
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
France > 13th century
Italy > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Ovid, Metamorphoses. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9806922
- Object ID (OID)
- 11403193
Manifest Link
