Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, BPL 1763

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  • BPL 1763
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Date
  • Apennine Peninsula, 15th century, first half
Language
  • Latin
Title
    • Carmina / Horace, and other text(s), BPL 1763
    • Q. Horatii Flacci Vita et Leges metri Horatiani
    • Vita Horatii
    • Leges metri Horatiani
    • Epistola Sapphus ad Phaonem
    • Odes
    • Epodes
    • Carmen saeculare
    • Heroides
    • Metamorphoses
    • De Philomela carminis fragmentum
    • Epitaphium
    • Orationes
    • Epistolae ad Alexandrum et Aristotelem
    • Excerpta ex variis auctoribus
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Description
  • Form:
    1 volume, 109 leaves : pen-flourished initials ; 218x144 mm
    Content:
    Contains: (f. 1) Some verses / Virgil. - (ff. 2r-5v) / Vita Horatii. - (ff. 6r-97v) Odes, Epodes and Carmen saeculare / Horace. - (ff. 98r-102v) Letter from Sappho to Phaon / Ovid. - (f. 103) Metamorphoses / Ovid. Excerpt. Also contains an epitaph (Hylas Tuscus) - (ff. 104r-109v) Speeches / Aeschines, Demades and Demosthenes. - (f. 107v) Letter of Philip II of Macedonia to Aristotle and Alexander. - (ff. 108r-109v) Short excerpts from various authors.
    Note:
    Date: According to Gumbert 2009.
    Binding: Medieval binding, contemporary. - Leather (brown goatskin, blind-tooled) over pasteboard. Closing ties, renewed (2x4, leather). - Bookblock resewn and pasteboard replaced; the leaves it consisted of now kept in restoration folder: leaves lined for musical notation and some fragments on the writing of letters and on rhetoric, probably from school books. Italian, 15th century. - Covering of spine and corners renewed.
    Textual: (ff. 2r-5v) Incipit: "Horatius Venusinus fuit qui puer...". Also contains the rules of Horatian metre. - (ff. 98r-102v) Letter XV of Heroides / Ovid. - (f. 103) Excerpt: Philomela, vv. 45-70. Incipit of epitaph: "Musa mihi vocem dederat Cylenius artem...".
    Description (Bouwman 2023): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
    Description (Molhuysen 1912): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3151098
    Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294
    Description (Gumbert 2009): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3161419
    Also described by MMDC.
    Bought from S.G. de Vries, Leiden, in 1901.
    Part of:
    Bibliotheca Publica Latina
    Subject (temporal):
    Middle Ages
    15th century
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