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MS. Rawl. G. 104

Summary Catalogue no.: 14830

Contents

(fol. 1)
Ovid; Ps.-Ovid, Works
(fol. 1)
Remedia amoris
Rubric: Incipit liber O. N. De remedio Amoris...
(fol. 17)
Nux
Rubric: Incipit liber O. N. De Nuce...
Incipit: Nux ego iunta uie

With 12 additional lines, beginning 'Sed quia res timida est'

(fol. 21)
De pulice
Rubric: Incipit liber O. N. De Pulice...
Incipit: Parue pulex
(fol. 21v)
Rubric: Incipit liber O. N. Somniorum...
Incipit: Hæserat et lassos

Amores, III.5

(fol. 22v)
Medicamina faciei feminae
Rubric: Incipit liber O. N. De medicamine faciei
(fol. 24v)
Carmina XII sapientum (AL Riese 632)
Rubric: Hoc opusculum compossitum est a Virgilio de inuenta littera a Pithagora
Incipit: Littera Pithagore
SK 8966
Walther 10361
(fol. 25)
Carmina XII sapientum (AL Riese 633)
Rubric: P. M. De contentu uini atque Veneris L(iber) I(ncipit)
Incipit: Nec Veneris nec tu
SK 10135
Walther 11706
(fol. 26)
Heroides

Ovid's Epistola Sapphus ad Phaonem, vv. 1-52, without title or author, and in a different hand

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: xvi + 37 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 8.5 × 5.75 in.

Hand(s)

Humanistic script (Pächt and Alexander ii. 902)

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 902

Good border

Good initials

History

Origin: 15th century, second half ; Italy, North (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

On fol. 1 is a coat of arms, gules a cow rampant or accompanied by three six-pointed stars or placed two and one (Bossi of Milan?)

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Description adapted (August 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1895). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970)

Last Substantive Revision

2024-08-05: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1895)