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MS. D'Orville 513

Summary Catalogue no.: 17391

Contents

1. (fol. 1)
Petrarch, Bucolicum carmen
Rubric: Francisci Petrarce · laureati poete · Bucolicum carmen incipit ...

With some additional matter relating to the twelve eclogues

Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 43v)
Verses on the Aeneid (Anthologia Latina 672)
Incipit: Ergone supremis
SK 4517
Walther 5508
Poetae latini minores, ed. Baehrens, IV. 179 (no. 183)
Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 44v)
Petrarch, Letter
Rubric: Francisci Petrarce... pars unius epistole facta super locis vrbis Rome...
Language(s): Latin
4. (fol. 46)
Poggio Bracciolini, De edificiis urbis Rome
Incipit: Pogii Florentini ... libellus sive dyalogus de edificiis vrbis Rome veteribus & nouis
Language(s): Latin
5. (fol. 54)
Petrarch, Familiares XXI.8 siue de laudibus feminarum
Rubric: Francisci Petrarcę ... ad Annam Augustam imperatricem consolatoria
Language(s): Latin
6. (fol. 57v)
Short poems on illustrious women
Language(s): Latin
7. (fol. 59)
Petrarch, works
Rubric: Libellus ... Francisci Petrarce ... siue epístola incipit vbi agit de his auctoribus qui de Auro fecerunt mentionem ...
Language(s): Latin
8. (fol. 67)
Francesco Philelpho, Epistula ad Cosmam de Medicis
Rubric: Epistola in metro ... Francisci Philelfi ad Cosmam de Medicis ... virum diuitem ...
Language(s): Latin
9. (fol. 70v)
Prudentius, Psychomachia
Rubric: Liber Aurelii Prudentii de pugna Virtutum et Viciorum, cui titulus est Sicomachia ...
Language(s): Latin
10. (fol. 89)
Poem on the Temple of Solomon
Rubric: ... Laus et qualitas xii lapidum templi Salamonis
Incipit: Auri crisolito
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: i + 96 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 8.75 × 6.25 in.

Hand(s)

In two hands, with the handwriting entirely changing at fol. 43v.

History

Origin: 15th century ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

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)

Last Substantive Revision

2024-02-01: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897)