Manuscript on parchment of Ovid, Heroides 16 (Paris to Helen) 1-38, 145-378, with an unidentified French translation. Latin text, which is written only on the verso of each leaf, faces the French translation, which is written on the recto of each leaf.
Description:
Binding: Seventeenth century, France (?). Bound in red goatskin, gold-tooled. Gilt edges. Title, much worn, on spine., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1956 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Latin text written in a round humanistic script much influenced by printing; Scribe 1) ff. 1v-21v and Scribe 2) ff. 22r-36r. French text written in upright batarde; Scribe 1) ff. 2r-22r and Scribe 2) ff. 22r-36r (a more flamboyant style of script)., and Two initials, one at beginning of Latin text (2-line), the other at the beginning of French text (3-line), respectively gold on blue square ground with gold filigree and gold on dark red square ground with gold filigree. Most stanzas introduced by paragraph marks in gold on blue or red alternating grounds, with gold filigree. First letter of each verse stroked with yellow, as are usually majuscules in text. Headings on ff. 1v and 2r in red.
Subject (Name):
Ovid,--43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Narrative poetry, Latin
Manuscript on paper of an alchemical text with illustrations of procedures pictured symbolically as taking place in flasks.
Description:
Binding: Modern English (?) binding of stiff parchment, the upper cover with a painting in colors closely copying the watercolor drawing which occurs as fig. XXIV on f. 27r of the manuscript. Plain edges., In Latin and French., Mellon MS 124, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., Script: Written in a practiced cursive sloping to the right, sometimes carelessly but with care taken in the captions, the writing sometimes very small., and Watermarks: Paper watermarked with a crowned cartouche, a conventional design on the shield, the name "D & C Blauw" below; compare the much larger (later?) examples cited by Heawood, 3267-3268.