The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1038

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9920

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1038

Title:

Works by and attributed to Ovid

Author:

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

Ovid WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Salernitanus, Clemens

Clemens Salernitanus WIKIDATA

Artist:

Majorana, Cristoforo (Style of)

Cristoforo Majorana WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1485 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 203 : parchment ; 76 x 150 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Cursive humanistic.
Layout: 1-58, the structure of quires 6 and 7, ff. 41-56 is unclear, but may be the normal 8-leaf gatherings, 8-168 176 18-258 264(+1 in the second half). Catchwords appear only on quires 1, 4, and 5, where they are written vertically along the inner bounding lines, and again on quire 7, written horizontally across the lower right margin. 28 lines of verse. Ruling in faint ink occasionally...
Decoration: 8-line historiated initials, perhaps more finely done than the borders; in the lower margin of f. 141 the same coat of arms as f. 1.
Other Decoration: Opening leaf with a full border in camaïeu d'or against a maroon ground with elaborate candelabras and decorations on 3 sides; in the lower border, against a blue and green ground, the first owner's coat of arms; 8-line foliate initial shaded in gold against a green ground. Three full borders on ff. 45, 61 and 141 of multicolored candelabra, decorated with festoons of beads...
The scribe was recognized by Dr. A. C. de la Mare. For a discussion of the scribe and the manuscripts he copied in either his cursive style, as HM 1038, or in a more formal script, see Alexander and de la Mare, Italian Manuscripts . . . of Major J. R. Abbey, 84-85, regarding J.A. 3183.
Assigned Date: s. XVex.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/31/2012.
Written in Naples where Clemens Salernitanus is known to have worked: T. De Marinis, La Biblioteca napoletana dei Re d'Aragona (Milan 1947-52) 1:66 identified the hand of this scribe with a Clemente Genovesi da Salerno mentioned in a Neapolitan document of 1487, who copied a "Trattato di mascalcia," now lost. HM 1038 shares script, decoration and pocket-size format with several other...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

illuminations (paintings)

decorated initials

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862152

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51507/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens