Metamorphoses

Description

Title: Metamorphoses
Alternative Title: [Metamorphoses. Italian]
Creator: Bonsignori, Giovanni
Ovid, 43 B. C.-17 or 18
Published / Created: 1408-09
Publication Place: Florence[?]
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Ovid, Metamorphoses, translated into Italian and with allegorical interpretations by Giovanni Bonsignori (Citta di Castello, d. after 1377), finished 29/30 Nov. 1377. With various Italian poems by different poets. The scribe Giovanni Tolosini did the copying from an Apulian exemplar and at the request of Chirico di Pietro Tolosini.
Extent: 300 x 220 mm.
Paper, ff. I (parchment) + I (paper) + 160 + II (parchment)
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: Italian

Format: text
Genre: Annotations
Decorated initials
Manuscripts
Marginalia
Notes
Rubrics
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Antonio, da Ferrara, 1315-ca. 1371
Davanzati, Mariotto
Petrarch, 1304-1374
Subject (Topic): Classical literature
Italian poetry--To 1400
Literature, Medieval--Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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

Orbis Record: 9645806
Object ID (OID): 2004169
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms688.htm