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MS. Lat. class. d. 8

Summary Catalogue no.: 31665

Contents

Ovid, Heroides
Explicit: Explicit liber Ouidij epistolarum. Deo Gratias. Amen
Colophon: Qui legit hunc librum scriptorem nouerit esse | Baptistam Pataui Sansonis nomine dictum

Ending in the last Epistle at line 12 ('ne uelit esse michi')

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 62 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 11 × 7.625 in.

Hand(s)

Written by Battista Sansone of Padua, fol. 62

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 595, pl. LVII:

Fine border

Fine initial

Binding

Stamped leather binding with metal bosses, Venice (?), saec. XVI (?). Original sewing. Originally four clasps (one remains)

History

Origin: c. 1400 ; Italy, Padua

Provenance and Acquisition

'Vincentii Remigii Meliorati et suorum amicorum' (16th century?, fol. 1)

Bought from H. T. Wake (Catalogue 234, no. 116, where it is wrongly asserted that the manuscript was in the Sunderland sale) in September 1894

Record Sources

Description adapted (July 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1924). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970)
Summary Catalogue, vol. 6, p. 85

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-07-05: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1924)