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MS. D'Orville 168

Summary Catalogue no.: 17046

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1. (fol. 1)
Ovid, Ars amatoria
Rubric: Publij Ouidij Nasonis Sulmonensis poetę clarissimi primi libri de Arte Amandi principium

With notes and glosses

2. (fol. 47v)
Ovid, De remedio amoris
Rubric: P. Ouidij Nasonis Sulmonensis primi libri de Remedio Amoris ἡ ἀρΧή

With notes and glosses

Language(s): Latin

At fol. 64 is an epitaph on Ovid (begins 'Hic ego qui') and (written rather later) 'Epitaphium hermaphroditi' (begins 'Dum mea me'). At end, 'Explicit. 1458. Deo gracias [?]'

3. (fol. 64v)
Ovid, Heroides XV
Rubric: Epistola Sapphos vatis ad Phaonem amatorem suum, que ab Ouidio translata fuit de Gręco in Latinum

XV, Sappho to Phaon

At end, 'Epistolę ... finis . per petrum . cano.. transs:—' i.e. 'per Petrum canonicum transscriptum'?

4. (fol. 68v)
Ps.-Ovid, De ludo scaccorum
Rubric: Ouidius scacchorum
Incipit: Qui cupit egregium
5. (fol. 69v)
Ps.-Ovid, Philomela
Rubric: Ouidius de uocibus apropriatis auibus & quadrupedibus
Incipit: Dulcis amica ueni
6. (fol. 70v)
Ps.-Ovid, De cuculo
Rubric: Ouidius de Cuculo
Rubric: Conflictus Hiemis et Veris
Incipit: Conueniunt concti subito

Followed by five short poems or epigrams, beginning 'Cura labor', 'Trax puer', 'Cum foderet', 'Aue plus decies', 'Hoc iacet'

On fol. 73 is a (later) list of remedia Amoris, sent by one Ricardus to 'Bernardinus de Lapis'

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: iii + 75 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 9.875 × 7.125 in.

Hand(s)

Humanistic script (Pächt and Alexander ii. 831). Addition in Humanistic script by Petrus canonicus , fol. 68v, with the date 1458, fol. 64r

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 831

Good border.

Good initial.

History

Origin: before 1458 ; Italy, North-east

Provenance and Acquisition

Defaced arms, fol. 1.

'Mei Manfredi Valturrij Ariminensis Ro⟨mani⟩ natu', 15th century: Manfredo Valturio, d. 1492: see Simonetta Nicolini, ‘Appunti per La Miniatura Malatestiana’, Il Dono Di Malatesta Novello (2006), 405–22 at 411 and nn. 30-1.

'Thommę Sozzij Scarlinj de Emporio hic liber est', 16th century

Jacques Phillippe D'Orville of Amsterdam (1690–1751)

Jean D'Orville, b. 1734, his son, by descent

Jean D'Orville, son of Jean, by descent

Sold to the Rev. John Cleaver Banks (1765/1766–1845): purchased from him by the Bodleian

Acquired by the Bodleian in 1804

Record Sources

Description adapted (February 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1897). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970)

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Last Substantive Revision

2024-02-05: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897)