Collection ID: 0053 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

De arte amandi manuscript, ca. 1400? / Ovidius.

Authors

• Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D., author.

Other related names

• Vannis, Paulus de, former owner., former owner
• Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner., former owner
• Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner., former owner
• Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner., former owner
• Mostyn, Lord, former owner., former owner

Call number

MS V.a.83
(Washington DC, USA, Folger Shakespeare Library)

Alternate identifiers

• https://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=224775

Publisher

Folger Shakespeare Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

Contains Ovid's Ars amatoria, preceded by introductory notes.

Notes

• Title from opening rubric (leaf 3r).
   

Extent

Leaves 51; 240 x 175 mm

Foliation

Foliated

Support

Parchment

Binding

Bound in late 17th-century calf with gold tooled spine; printed waste.

Layout

Written in 23 to 24 long lines (dimensions of written space: 155 x 90 mm); below line; framed-ruled in lead with double inner and outer vertical bounding lines; continuous glossed commentary ruled in outer and inner columns. Continuous glossed commentary on both sides of the main column and at the foot of each leaf; continuous interlinear notes with a few manicules throughout.

Decoration

Decorated zoomorphic initial (pelican with a fish) on leaf 3r; Penwork initials in red and gold on leaves 3r to 34v.

Script

Carefully written in an Italian Gothic "Rotunda" hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Paulus de Vannis; Lord Mostyn; and W.T. Smedley (bookplate); Purchased as part of the Smedley Collection in 1924 by Henry Clay Folger.
   

Related resources

• Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, SM.4

Subjects topical

• Feudalism --Early works to 1800 --Manuscripts
• Birds, depicted
• Italy

Genres

• Manuscripts, Latin --Italy --14th century
• Poems
• Drawings
• Annotations (Provenance)
• Manicules (Provenance)
• Printed waste (Binding)

Keywords

• 14th century
• Italian
• Italy
• History
• Literature -- Prose
• Grammar
• History

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Introduction
• fol. 3r — De arte amandi (Book One); incipit: [rubr.] Incipit Ouidius de arte amandi. [text] Siquis in hoc artem populo non nouit amandi ...; explicit: ... Hic teneat nostras anchora iacta rates. [f. 19r]
• fol. 19r — De arte amandi (Book Two); incipit: Dicite yo pean et yo bis dicite Paen ...; explicit: ... Vos eritis chartae proxima cura mee. [f. 34v]
• fol. 34v — De arte amandi (Book Three); incipit: Arma dedi Danais in Amazonas arma supersunt ...; explicit: ... Inscribant spoliis Naso magister erat. Pagina Nasonis hec artem monstrat amoris. [f. 51v]

Decorations

• fol. 3r — Decorated zoomorphic initial (pelican with a fish)