- Creator:
- Accolti, Francesco, 1416 or 17-1488
Arnulfus, Aurelianensis, 12th cent
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D - Published / Created:
- 1463
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 774
- Image Count:
- 390
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- 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:
- 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., 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., and 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.
- Subject (Name):
- Ovid,--43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D
- Subject (Topic):
- Epic poetry, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Metamorphoses
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2.
- Creator:
- Virgil
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1125
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragments on parchment of Aeneid, Book IX.137-163, 167-193 and 685-713, 715-742.
- Subject (Name):
- Virgil
- Subject (Topic):
- Epic poetry, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Aeneid
3.
- Creator:
- Virgil
- Published / Created:
- [between 1350 and 1360]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1067
- Image Count:
- 94
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Virgil, Aeneis, in an Italian prose abridgement by Andrea Lancia.
- Description:
- Stitched but unbound.
- Subject (Name):
- Lancia, Andrea,--ca. 1280-ca. 1360 and Virgil
- Subject (Topic):
- Epic poetry, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Aeneis
4.
- Creator:
- Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius)
- Published / Created:
- 1406
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 42
- Image Count:
- 252
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Statius, Thebais.
- Description:
- Binding: Twentieth century, England. Quarter bound in alum tawed pigskin, blind-tooled, over oak boards. Title, in ink, on head edge: "Statij. thebaidos". Title on spine: "Statii Thebais/ MS. 1406"., One garishly painted initial, 16-line, red and blue divided with penwork designs in both colors. Spaces left for decorative initials at beginning of remaining books are unfilled. For ff. 1r-13r only: headings, paragraph marks, underlining of passages glossed in marginalia and running headlines, all in red; for ff. 1r-16v: first letter of each verse touched with yellow., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1952 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by several scribes in scripts ranging from calligraphic mercantesca to a more formal gothic bookhand., and Watermarks, obscured by text: similar in type to Piccard Horn VI.110-29.
- Subject (Name):
- Statius, P. Papinius--(Publius Papinius)
- Subject (Topic):
- Epic poetry, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Thebais
5.
- Creator:
- Virgil
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1470]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1065
- Image Count:
- 118
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an Italian prose paraphrase of Virgil's Aeneid. With an incomplete text on the labors of Hercules.
- Subject (Name):
- Virgil
- Subject (Topic):
- Epic poetry, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Aeneis