University of California, Berkeley, BANC MS UCB 166

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS12694

Shelfmark:

BANC MS UCB 166

Title:

Ars amatoria ; Remedia amoris ; Epistola Sapphus (Heroides)

Author:

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

Ovid WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

14--

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

negative and positive

Physical Description:

Extent: 56 leaves : paper ; 209 x 151 (140 x 90) mm bound to 213 x 153 mm
Extent: 1 microfilm reel : negative and positive.

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Garrod, H. W. 1878-1960

Heathcote William Garrod WIKIDATA

Peach, Harry H

Harry Peach WIKIDATA

Thomson, Frank Allen

Frank Allen Thomson WIKIDATA

Note:

Inside front cover: Phillipps MS 16361. Later ms. entry: H[eathcote] W[illiam] Garrod, Merton College, Oxford, Bought of H. Peach, Leicester. H.W. Garrod (d. 1960) was a Classicist at Merton; Harry H. Peach, of Dryad Handicrafts, was an enthusiastic supporter of handwriting reform. More recently the manuscript was owned by Frank Allen Thomson.
Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, fol. 56 (foliated in modern pencil, fol. 1-9 in upper right corner, fol. 9-56 in lower left corner); 110 ( -2) 3-510 68; catchwords written vertically at the end of each quire; several vellum quire guards visible.
Layout: Written in 30 long lines; ruled in dry point.
Script: Written in an (idiosyncratic) humanistic cursive script by one hand.
Decoration: 8 2-line initials in red or blue with pen flourishing in other color.
Binding: 18th century calf over pasteboard.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 15th century.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 166.
2. fol. 39r-52v: "[title] Ovidius de remedia amoris [text] Legerat huius amor titlum nomenque libelli / bella mihi video bella paratur ait ... Post modo reddetis sacra pia vota poete, / carmine sanati femina virque meo [colophon] Mellius scripsisset scriptor si voluisset."

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

California--Berkeley

Institutional Record:

https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991047715019706532

IIIF Manifest:

https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/nanna/proxy/iiif/manifest/229537/

Holding Institution:

University of California, Berkeley