Manuscript of the 'Epistolae ex Ponto' by Ovid, written in Italy.

File

Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.5

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

i.4-5 and iv.14-15 are not separated. At the end occur the verses '(E)xpers naso modi' etc., printed from Breslau MS. R.109 folio 349, in 'Catalogus codicum latinorum classicorum qui in Bibliotheca Vrbica Wratislaviensi adservantur', page 76.

Subscription, folio 74 verso: 'Explicit liber ouidij de po(n)to. Mcccclxxº [x]iiiº decimo KL.April.'

Space has been left for initials, which have not been added. Written in a competent humanistic bookhand. There are a few later marginalia.

On the inside top cover is a bibliographical note in an 18th-century hand.

Dates

Creation: 1470.

Extent

1 Volumes (i + 74 + i folios.)

Language of Materials

Latin

Additional Description

Arrangement

Collation: 1-8⁸, 9¹⁰. Catchwords in the lower right-hand margin, at right angles to the text. Pricking not preserved. Ruling with a hard point on the unfolded gathering, inside sheet uppermost. 1 column. 22 lines. Ruled area 180 x 95 millimetres. Secundo folio: `En ego pro`.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Paper (watermark: a flower, similar to Briquet 6598, Milan, 1475). Italian binding (probably the original) of brown calf, tooled blind.

Custodial History

On folio i is written `Jonn peroino de giro in bergo titelino, and `£1 s. –‘. There is a modern pressmark j480 on folio iv, former pressmark: Rob.Ill. 1.15. The manuscript was acquired by the Advocates’ Library before circa 1815.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.

Existence and Location of Copies

Microfilm available: Mf.Sec.MSS.831.

Related Materials

Breslau MS. R.109.

Bibliography

‘P. Ovidi Nasonis Tristium libri quinque, ex Ponto libri quattuor’, etc., edited by S G Owen (Oxford, 1915).

‘Catalogus codicum latinorum classicorum qui in Bibliotheca Vrbica Wratislaviensi adservantur’ (Wratislava, 1915).