Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
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ID 1514431
Los 12 | Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
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Heroides, in Latin, manuscript on paper [Italy, 15th century]
An attractively written Humanistic manuscript of Ovid's epistolary tales of tortured, unfulfilled or unrequited love, in a medieval binding, preserving its original wide margins.
c. 295 x 215mm, i (vellum) + 70 + i (vellum) leaves, complete, collation: 1–710, medieval foliation in pale red ink 1–40, thereafter in modern pencil, vertical catchwords survive, 25 lines written in a Humanistic script, leaving spaces for coloured initials and rubrics, ruled space: c. 180 x 105 mm; some rubrics and running-titles added in 15th-century pale red ink, some 15th-century interlinear and marginal annotations (some staining and worming). Medieval binding: half-bound in undecorated mid-brown leather over wood (beech?) boards, the front board split vertically and with three medieval(?) diagonal repairs, two clasps at the fore-edge with trefoil-shaped metal catch-plates on the lower board, the head of the spine with a 17th(?)-century paper label inscribed ‘P. Ovidi / Naso / Epistol. / MS’, the foot with a typescript label in capitals ‘Phillipps MS. / 16362’
Provenance:
(1) Pietro Alberti, 15th century: inscribed ‘hic liber est petrij albertij’ on f.i, superseding a similar inscription with the name in the nominative.
(2) Guglielmo Libri (1803–1869), ‘scientist, patriot, scholar, journalist and thief’: his sale, 28 March 1859, lot 752 (‘This manuscript belonged to the celebrated Alberti family of Florence’), bought by Quaritch for:
(3) Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), antiquary and book collector: his MS 16362 inscribed in ink on f.i verso. Published in Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum in bibliotheca D. Thomæ Phillipps, Bart., 1837, p.317, no 16362. His sale, Sotheby's, A further portion of the classical, historical, topographical, genealogical and other manuscripts & autograph letters of the late Sir Thomas Phillipps, 30 April 1903, lot 865 to Bolton for £1 14s.
(4) Maggs Bros. Ltd., Catalogue 542, The Art of Writing 2800 B.C. to 1930 A.D.: Illustrated in a Collection of Original Documents Written on Vellum, Paper, Papyrus, Silk, Linen, Bamboo [...], 1930, no 161, with their price code and ‘161’ encircled (f.71v) and a clipping from the catalogue stuck inside the front board.
(5) Howard Lehman Goodhart (1884-1951), stockbroker and bibliophile: his leather book label inside upper cover. By descent to his daughter:
(6) Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (1913-1994): her leather book label inside upper cover, MS 7. On deposit at Bryn Mawr, BMC 60. Published in De Ricci, Census, II, p.1677, no 7.
Content:
Added heading, ‘Publii Ouidii Nasonis Epistolarum erodium liber primus. Penelope Ulisi’; Heroides, ending in Ep. 20 at line 184: ‘Hanc tua Penelope lento tibi mitit Ulixe [...] Fert aliis tristem sucus amarus opem’, ff.1–69; blank, ff.69v–70v. The blank spaces at the end show that the text was left incomplete by the scribe (possibly due to a defective exemplar), and is not imperfect.
The Heroides by Ovid (43 BC – AD 17), the Roman poet, consist of letters supposedly written by legendary heroines (including Dido, Ariadne, Medea, Hermione, and Penelope) to their lovers or husbands; they are therefore studies of love from female perspectives, whether betrayed, deserted, or worried for the safety of their lover.
Literature
Thomas Phillipps, Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca D. Thomæ Phillipps, Bart., A.D. 1837 [Reprinted with an Introduction by A.N.L. Munby], repr. [London] Orskey-Johnson, 2001 (Privately printed, 1837), no 13632.
S. De Ricci, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, II, 1961, p.1677, no 7.
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