Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Ars Poetica and Epistulae

Authors

• Horace (https://viaf.org/viaf/100227522/)

Other related names

• Hodossy, Imre, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Horace MS 1a
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, Horace Collection)

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Austria? Hungary?

Summary

This manuscript, the first of two volumes, contains the Ars Poetica and Epistulae by Horace. It was written in Austria or Hungary in the fourth quarter of the 15th century.

Notes

• Probably once bound in with a larger manuscript, as seventeenth-century (?) folio numbering begins on fol. 1r with 89
   
• Back Flyleaves 1 and 2 are part of quire 3
   

Watermark

Briquet No. 2454 (a balance)

Extent

Ii+37+iv; 194 x 143 mm bound to 199 x 151 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; earlier (seventeenth century?) foliation in ink, upper middle recto, begins on fol. 1 with "89"

Collation

1 (11, +1), 2 (16), 3 (12)

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern binding, blue cloth with gold stamping over paper boards

Layout

Single column of twenty-four to twenty-nine lines (most pages twenty-seven to twenty-eight); lines begin with capitals; drypoint frame-ruled, no line ruling; written area: 146 x 81 mm

Decoration

Occasional manicules

Script

Gothic--cursiva

Provenance

• Imre Hodossy; Purchased by Maggs Bros; LTD in 1955 for the Free Library at a Munich auction
   

Keywords

• 15th century
• Austria
• Manicules
• Literature -- Poetry

Licenses

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Table of contents

• insert recto — Letter from Maggs Bros. to Free Library, January 6, 1955

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Hodossy Imre
• fol. 2v — Manicule
• fol. 6v — Manicule
• fol. 7r — Manicule
• fol. 7v — Manicule
• fol. 8r — Manicule
• fol. 8v — Manicule
• fol. 9r — Manicule
• fol. 19r — Manicule
• fol. 20r — Manicule
• fol. 20r — Manicule
• fol. 23r — Manicule
• fol. 23v — Manicule
• fol. 27r — Manicule
• fol. 30v — Manicule
• fol. 32r — Manicule