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

Title

Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry); Carmen seculare; Epistolae (Epistles); Odes

Authors

• Horace (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79081354.html)

Other related names

• Davis & Orioli (Firm), former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/168585534)
• Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50032243.html)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Horace MS 2
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, Horace Collection)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1545996

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This manuscript is a fifteenth-century Italian copy of Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry) by the Roman poet Horace.

Notes

• Manuscript was previously part of John Frederick Lewis Collection; Lewis E 235a
   

Extent

I+132+i; 243 x 145 mm bound to 251 x 146 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-12 (10), 13 (8), 14 (6)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Contemporary goatskin over wooden boards, one of two original leather strap clasps remains; gilt and gauffered edges

Layout

Written area: 150 x 78 mm; One column of thirty-one lines, ruled in hard-point; one historiated six-line initial, Nine five-line illuminated initials, two-line blue initials throughout, coat of arms on fol. 1r; Last two leaves (ff. 131r-132v) added in 1924

Decoration

fol. 1r: illuminated initial with seated Roman warrior

Script

Humanistic

Two Renaissance scribes; scribe 1 responsible for ff. 1r-100v; scribe 2 responsible for ff. 101-130v; third scribe (fols. 131r-132v) is a modern scribe, Graily Hewitt. Note in Sydney Cockerell's hand, dated April 1926, stating: "When I bought this book the two final leaves were missing. They have now been supplied by Graily Hewitt," signed S.C.C. Second scribe identified as same scribe of a Juvenal in the St. John Hornby-Abbey Collection (cf. Sotheby's catalogue entry)

Provenance

• Arms of the Tirelta of Treviso with initials Z. T; Purchased by Sydney Cockerel in January 1924 from Davis & Orioli who had obtained it in France; Sydney Cockerell, London; his sale London, Sotheby's, April 3, 1957, lot no. 16; London, Christie's, November 28, 1960, lot. 52; The Free Library of Philadelphia, Gratz Fund purchase; notations on first flyleaf: "Sydney C. Cockrell Cambridge Jan. 16 1924"
   

Keywords

• Treatise
• 15th century
• Italian
• Humanistic
• Illumination
• Italy
• Literature -- Poetry

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Epistles, Two Books; incipit: Prima dicte mihi svmma dicende camena (sic) …; explicit: … Rideat et pulset lasciua decentius aetas.
• fol. 26r — Art of Poetry (Ars Poetica); incipit: Hvmano capiti ceruicem pictor equinam …; explicit: … Non missura cutem, nisi plena cruoris, hirudo.
• fol. 34r — Satires, Two Books; incipit: Qui fit Mecoenas: ut nemo qua[m] sibi fortem …; explicit: … Canidia afflasset peior serpentibus Afris.
• fol. 69r — Odes, Four Books; incipit: Mecoenas attauis edite tegibus …; explicit: … Progeniem ueneris canemus
• fol. 120v — Epodes; incipit: Ibis liburnis inter alta nauium …; explicit: … Plotem artis in te nihil agentis exitum.
• fol. 130v — Carmen seculare, added 1924; incipit: Phoebe, syluarumq[ue] potens Diana …; explicit: …Dicere laudes

Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 recto — Notations by owner: "Sydney C. Cockrell Cambridge Jan. 16 1924"
• fol. 1r — Inhabited initial P, Roman soldier
• fol. 1r — Arms of the Tirelta of Treviso with initials Z. T
• fol. 17v — Decorated initial C
• fol. 26r — Decorated initial H
• fol. 34r — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 51r — Decorated initial S
• fol. 69r — Decorated initial M
• fol. 84r — Decorated initial M
• fol. 94r — Decorated initial O
• fol. 110v — Decorated initial I
• fol. 120v — Decorated initial I
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Notations by owner: "Sydney C. Cockrell Cambridge Jan. 16 1924"
• Inside back cover — Owner's notations ""When I bought this book the two final leaves were missing. They have now been supplied by Graily Hewitt," signed S.C.C.