Wellesley College, P747
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS16415
- Shelfmark:
- P747
- Title:
- Heroides /
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- between 1450-1499
- Language:
- ita
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 84 leaves : parchment ; 213 x 144 (130 x 85) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Siccus, Johannes Baptista
Canonici, Matteo Luigi, 1727-1805
Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888
Simkhovitch, Vladimir G. 1874-1959
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, 84 folios. 1-108, 114. Signatures mostly trimmed away, but visible in quires 7 and 8 as red numbers 1 - 4 in lower right corner of the first half of the quire. Catchwords preserved. Contemporary foliation skips folios 19 and 21, so reaches 82 (as in de Ricci and Jackson), instead of 84 folios.
Layout: 1 column, 29 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light brown ink or blind.
Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand, by at least 2 scribes, in brown ink. Red rubrics. "Scrito da Attilla Flagelum Do(min)i?" on fol. 82v.
Decoration: 5-line gilt [A] on folio 1r on red, green, and blue panelled background with brown filigree extending into margin decorated with gold berries; each prologue and letter begins with a 2-line red initial with brown filigree and finely detailed pen and ink portraits of the writer and recipient of the letter.
Origin: Written in Italy in the mid-fifteenth century.
In the early sixteenth century, the manuscript belonged to one Johannes Baptista Siccus (see inscription, fol. 1r). Early reader's (owner's?) signature on fol. 1r, "Atila Flagelum". Early nineteenth-century shelf label "78" inside front cover which, according to de Ricci, matches the label found in Harvard University, Houghton Library, Norton MS 2001. Abate Mateo Canonici collection, sold in... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626079
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://repository.wellesley.edu/node/30541/manifest
- Holding Institution:
