Accession number
MS M.810
Object title
Heroides.
Display Date
between 1350 and 1399.
Created
Florence, Italy, between 1350 and 1399.
Binding
Rebound in red morocco with ties by Leighton of London in 1902.
Description
230 leaves (1 column, 30 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 270 x 190 mm
Provenance
Niccolò Tornaquinci of Florence, erased ownership note on fol. 1: Iste liber est Niccholai c[on]da[m] ghini de tornaqui[n]cis de [sic] florentia; owned ca. 1370-1381 by Coluccio Salutati of Florence; erased ownership note on f. 224: Liber Colucii pyerii de Stignano (his library mark on f. 3, and many notes in his hand); owned in the 16th century by Pandolfo Strozzi, followed by Roberto Strozzi, who probably were the grandsons of Palla Strozzi, partially erased ownership notes: Pandulfus Strozzi suum Librum, and, Pandulfus changed to Robertus, thus: Robertus Strozzi suum Librum, also erased below: Pandulfus Strozzi suum Librum in Esti; Earl of Hopetoun in 1899; Henry White, his sale, London, Sotheby's, Apr. 21, 1902, lot 1630; to Leighton, his catalogue VI, 1904, lot 3799; Voynich; Maggs, Paris, sold to J. Martini, Lugano; purchased from Martini by David Wagstaff, Tuxedo Park, NY, in 1927; purchased from Wagstaff in 1940.
Notes
Ms. miscellaneous works of Ovid; written and illuminated in Florence, Italy, in the second half of the 14th century.
Texts: Heroides, with commentary (fol. 1-60); Amores (fol. 61-102); Somnium (fol. 102); De arte amandi (fol. 103-141v); Fasti, with commentary (fol. 143-225v); calendar (fol. 226-228v).
Decoration: 5 illuminated initials with border decorations.
Texts: Heroides, with commentary (fol. 1-60); Amores (fol. 61-102); Somnium (fol. 102); De arte amandi (fol. 103-141v); Fasti, with commentary (fol. 143-225v); calendar (fol. 226-228v).
Decoration: 5 illuminated initials with border decorations.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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