Princeton University, Princeton MS. 178.

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2234

Shelfmark:

Princeton MS. 178.

Title:

Ouidius de remediis amoris ... etc.

Place:

Swabia?, Germany

Swabia TGN

Date:

1436?

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 247 leaves : paper ; 304 x 212 (190 x 115) mm bound to 315 x 220 mm.

Note:

Ms. composite codex.
Title from explicit of first work (fol. 34v)
Table of contents on upper pastedown. Marginal notes.
Incipit: Ouidius de remediis amoris “Legerat huius amor tytulum nomen que libelli, Bella michi video bella parantur ait ...” -- Fagifacetus "Res rerum natura parens ita concipiet omnes, Et parit ut nate potuque ciboque ...” -- De Christi passione “Vide homo que pro te patior, Ad te clamo qui pro te morior ...” -- Vita Pylati “Si ueluti quondam scriptor uel scripta placerent, In noua dicendo...
Collation: Paper ; fol. i (re-used parchment) + 247 + i (re-used parchment) ; catchwords at the end of most quires ; occasional running titles ; foliation in ink.
Layout: 12-20 lines of verse per page ; ruled.
Description: Watermarks (tête-de-boeuf surmounted by a flower).
Decoration: Major texts begin with a 2- to 3-line blue initial with red penwork, sometimes including a human face. Smaller initials of the same type, alternating in red and blue, begin sections of major texts.
Origin: Fridangus According to explicit copied in 1436 by Iohannem Neuburgensis (fol. 244v).
Owned by Friedrich Wilhelm Roloff in 1736. By 1888 it was in the library of the Königliche Marienstifts-Gymnasium in Stettin, Pomerania (now Szeczecin, Poland). Since 1945 it has been in private collections. The Princeton University Library purchased it from Les Enluminures in part with support of the Theodore F. Sanxay Fund and the Presidential Fund of Harold T. Shapiro and Vivian B. Shapiro...

Keyword:

Bosses (Binding)

Clasps

illuminated manuscripts

decorated initials

Textbooks

Anthropomorphic initials

Poetry

Watermarks (Paper)

Wooden boards (Binding)

Latin language

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Latin literature

Proverbs, German

Love

Judas Iscariot

New Jersey--Princeton

Passion of Jesus Christ

Table etiquette

Latin language--Textbooks

Germany

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99115470373506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f5f7a6ae-4ccb-4621-957f-041d9d399693/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University