Maximianus (ca 250-310); Ovid (43 BCE - 17/18 CE); Pseudo-Ovid

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Maximianus (c.250-310); Ovid (43 BCE - 17/18 CE); Pseudo-Ovid
Maximianus, Elegiae; Ovid, Amores; and Pseudo-Ovid, Nux; in Latin, manuscript on vellum, Bologna, 1462.
An elegant compilation of Latin elegiac poetry written in Renaissance Bologna and signed by the scribe Sigismundus Berardus in 1462.

c.168 x 115mm. i + 20 leaves, complete: 1-45, 24 lines of text, ruled space: 113 x 71mm, prickings survive, spaces for large initials left blank, added on occasion in contemporary red-brown ink along with marginal annotations and manicules, erased later marginalia (waterstaining to lower margin of ff.18-20, occasional marginal losses and staining not affecting the text). Card covers.

Provenance:
(1) Written in Bologna by the scribe Sigismundus Berardus between September and October 1462, according to the colophons on ff.15v and 20v; the latter colophon: ‘Sigismundus Berardus libellum hu[n]c Bononiae propria manu absolvit VI kds Octobris mccclxii…’
(2) ‘Pietrus Antonio de Romanis de Cesene’ [?Cesena]: 16th-century ownership inscription on f.1.
(3) Colker MS 7; acquired in 1947 from Maggs; Faye & Bond, Supplement to de Ricci’s Census (1962), p. 516.

Content:
Elegiae ff.1v-15v, colophon on f.15v: ‘Bononiae idib; septe[m]bris mccclxii’; Ovid, Amores, 3.5 ff.16-16v; Nux ff.17-20v.

Little is known of the 6th-century Latin poet Maximianus, save for what can be inferred from his poetry – his claim to be of Etruscan descent means he is sometimes referred to as ‘Maximianus Etruscus’ – and scholars dispute whether his verses can be securely attributed to a single author. His Elegies were part of the teaching corpus in the 11th and 12th centuries; they appeared in printed editions of the 15th century, before the 1501 edition by Pomponius Gauricus misattributed his verse to the first-century-BC poet Cornelius Gallus, an error which persisted in print for hundreds of years. The elegiac poem Nux is among the corpus of works whose authorship is credited to Ovid in the manuscript tradition but not by modern scholars, hence: ‘Pseudo-Ovid’. Our manuscript is referenced in Martin Pulbrook's edition of the Nux poem (Maynooth, 1985, pp. 13, 66-71).
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