Accession number:
MS M.810
Title:
Heroides
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.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin
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