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MS. Auct. F. 4. 24

Summary Catalogue no.: 8865

Contents

1. (fol. 3)
Ovid, Fasti
Rubric: Publii Nasonis Ouidii Fastorum opus

The bottom of fol. 3 has been torn away, mutilating 1.19-24 and 41-48

With glosses and scholia

On fol. 102, a later hand has added the four verses of Book 7 with a marginal title 'Finis vi libri fastorum, incipit vii'

The Calendar follows

Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 107)
Ovid, Heroides XV (Epistle of Sappho to Phaon).

With glosses

Heroides
Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 111)
Lactantius, De ave Phoenice
Rubric: Carmen Phoenicis, per Lactantium
Language(s): Latin
4. (fol. 114)
Ovid, Remedia amoris
Rubric: Ouidius de Remedio Amorum

vv. 1-764 ('sola fuit'), ending in the middle of a page

With glosses

Language(s): Latin
5. (fol. 131)
Ovid, Ibis
Language(s): Latin
6. (fol. 144v)
Ovid, Medicamina faciei femineae
Rubric: P. Ouidii Nasonis de Medicamine faciei
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: 154 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 8.75 × 6.125 in.

Condition

The manuscript was damaged and repaired in the 15th century. Fols 56-58v (4.180-334), 68 (4.781-836), and 77-102 (5.284-6.812) appear to be insertions to replace early losses

History

Origin: 15th century ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Nicolaas Heinsius: this volume is no. 363 in the Heinsius sale catalogue (March 1682-1683), tom. ii. p. 89. It was probably a gift from Queen Christina

Bought at the Heinsius sale by Edward Bernard (1638–1697)

Bequeathed by Bernard to his widow

Purchased from her by the Bodleian in 1698

Record Sources

Description adapted (January 2025) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1895) and 'A Catalogue of Manuscripts of Ovid's Fasti', Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 24 (1977), pp. 37-63
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 20

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-01-28: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1895) with reference to other published literature as cited