Ovidius Naso, Publius (43 a.C.n. - ca. 18 p.C.n.)
This small-format codex probably is from the Carthusian monastery of Mainz, from where it came to the Carthusian monastery of Basel, where numerous ownership notes were added. It contains a great variety of excerpts from religious, historical and other literature from the Middle Ages and antiquity. The length of the texts also varies considerably: in addition to short excerpts and two- or four-line verses about various things such as popes or bees, there are longer pieces such as Hugh of Fouilloy's De rota verae et falsae religionis or the first half of Paradisus Animae by Pseudo-Albertus Magnus.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
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- Adamus, de Einesham (Author) | Albertus, Magnus (Author) | Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eusebius, Caesariensis (Author) | Gratianus, de Clusio (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Henricus, de Langenstein (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Hugo, de Folieto (Author) | Hugo, de Sancto Victore (Author) | Hugo, Lincolniensis (Author) | Isaac, Ninivita (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Jacopone, da Todi (Author) | Johannes, Damascenus (Author) | Josephus, Flavius (Author) | Ludolphus, de Saxonia (Author) | Nicolaus, de Lyra (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Petrus, Lombardus (Author) | Prosper, de Aquitania (Author) | Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius (Author) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Valerius Maximus (Author) | Venturinus, de Bergamo (Author) | Vincentius, Bellovacensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
In this Northern Italian manuscript from the first half of the 11th century, Virgil's works (Bucolica, Georgica, Aeneis) are accompanied by the commentary of Servius. This manuscript belonged to the influential Florentine humanist Coluccio Salutati, who added his own comments on Virgil's works in the margins. This manuscript probably came to Basel with the Dominican John of Ragusa, who held a leading position in the Council of Basel. After his death, the manuscript went to the Dominican Convent of Basel.
Online Since: 03/19/2015
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- Johannes, de Ragusa (Former possessor) | Johannes, Tortellius (Former possessor) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Salutati, Coluccio (Former possessor) | Servius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript was written by Johannes Heynlin during his time in Paris between 1469 and 1471. It contains three "classic works for education", the (annotated) Bucolics, the Georgics, and the Aeneid by Virgil, as well as a whole series of pseudo-Virgilian works. The volume is finely decorated with figural initials from a Parisian studio with scenes from Virgil's works. The manuscript was probably bound in Basel, perhaps at the instigation of the Carthusian monastery, into whose possession it came when Heynlin entered the monastery.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumentum bucolicorum (31v)
Incipit: Qualis bucolicis
Explicit: carmina nostra
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This composite manuscript of content related to astronomy consists of three independently created parts with leaves of different sizes and varying layouts. They were produced by several scribes in the 13th and 14th centuries. The texts describe instruments for observing the sky and treat the planetary orbits, which are also represented in astronomical drawings. This composite manuscript belonged to the chained library of the Dominican Convent of Basel.
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- Carolus, Swederi (Scribe) | Gerardus, Cremonensis (Author) | Ibn-Riḍwān, ʿAlī (Author) | Johannes, de Pulchro Rivo (Author) | Johannes, Hispalensis (Translator) | Māšā'allāh, Ibn-Aṯarī (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Pantaleon, Heinrich (Annotator) | Petrus, de Dacia (Author) | Ptolemaeus, Claudius (Author) | Tagstern, Johannes, OP (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This small-format, almost square 14th century Ovid manuscript contains the Heroides accompanied by the commentary of William of Orléans (Guilelmus Aurelianensis, around 1200). An older erased note of ownership suggests a French origin; Johannes Heynlin bequeathed this manuscript to the Carthusian Monastery of Basel.
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- Heynlin, Johannes (Former possessor) | Louber, Jakob (Annotator) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Willelmus, Aurelianensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
Ovid's Epistolae ex Ponto came from the Basel Franciscan Library to the renowned Museum Faesch on the Petersplatz. This witness to the text is also important for the history of the editions of these letters from exile. It is all the more interesting that it was long thought to be lost, although this small book, which has the peculiarity of still having the old iron chain with which it would have been attached to a lectern, never actually disappeared.
Online Since: 09/26/2024
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Epistolae ex Ponto, cum glossa / Ovidius Found in: Standard description
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Ex Ponto libri quattuor. P. Ovidius Naso. (1r-47r) Found in: Standard description
- Faesch, Remigius (Former possessor) | Gerlach, Franz Dorotheus (Librarian) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
The so-called Liber ad honorem Augusti by Peter of Eboli is one of the most famous and most requested manuscripts in the Burgerbibliothek Bern. The manuscript is exceptionally richly illustrated; it is from a workshop in the circle of the imperial court in southern Italy. Neither the scribe nor the illustrator is known, but, the text was doubtlessly corrected by the author himself. The text, an epic poem in Latin in about 1700 distichs that has survived only in this manuscript, is divided into three books. The first two books describe the prehistory of Sicily and its conquest by the Staufers; the third book contains a poem in praise of the parents — Emperor Henry VI and his wife Constance, daughter and heir of King Roger II of Sicily — of the famous Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick II, who was born on 26 December 1194 in Jesi near Ancona.
Online Since: 03/22/2018
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Bürger, Ulrike (Restorer) | Caesar, Gaius Iulius (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Petrus, de Ebulo (Author) | Varro, Marcus Terentius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This magnificent complete edition of the works of Virgil (Bucolics, Georgics, Aeneid) was given to the Benedictine Monastery of St. Martin in Tours by the Levite Berno (note and book curse on f. 1v). Virgil's text is interspersed with numerous commentaries (scholia) from late antiquity by Servius and Donatus, which have been transmitted in this form almost exclusively in manuscripts from the Bongarsiana collection. However, Cod. 165 does not present the true Scholia Bernensia as in Cod. 167 und Cod. 172, but rather a collection by various scholiasts which was compiled in Tours — hence the name Scholia Turonensia.
Online Since: 12/17/2015
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu den Bucolica und Georgica. (1v)
Incipit: Qualis bucolicis, quantus tellure domanda
Explicit: Contineat quae quisque liber, lege carmina nostra.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu den Bucolica. (2r)
Incipit: Tityrus agresti modo laetus carmine ruris
Explicit: Pastorumque sonos faciles duxere cicutae.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Georgicon I. (16r)
Incipit: Tetrastica Ovidii. Quid faciat laetas segetes, quae sidera servet
Explicit: Et docuit messes magno cum faenore reddi.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Georgicon II. (25r)
Incipit: Hactenus arvorum cultus et sidera caeli
Explicit: Atque oleae ramos, pomorum et condere fetus.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Georgicon III. (34r)
Incipit: Teque Pales et te, pastor venerande per orbem
Explicit: Omnia divino monstravit carmine vates.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Georgicon IV. (43v)
Incipit: Protinus aerii mellis redolentia regna
Explicit: Inplicat umentisque favos, caelestia dona.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Aeneis II. (66v)
Incipit: Conticuere omnes tunc sic fortissimus heros
Explicit: Ereptam fato socios in monte receptos.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Aeneis III. (79v–80r)
Incipit: Versus Ovidii. Tertius a Troiae vectos canit aequore Teucros. Post eversa Phrygum regna ut fuga coepta moveri
Explicit: Amissumque patrem Defanis hic deinde quievit.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Aeneis IV. (92r)
Incipit: Quartus item miserae duo vulnera narrat Elissae. Uritur in quarto Dido flammasque fatetur
Explicit: Et vitam infelix multo cum sanguine fudit.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Aeneis V. Versus Ovidii. (104r)
Incipit: Manibus ad tumulum quinto celebrantur honores. Quintus habet ludos et classem corripit ignis
Explicit: Et placidum Aeneas Palinurum quaerit in undis.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Aeneis VI. (118v–119r)
Incipit: Quaeruntur sexto Manes et Tartara Ditis
Explicit: Haec ubi percepit, graditur classemque revisit.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Aeneis VII. (134r)
Incipit: Septimus Aenean reddit fatalibus arvis
Explicit: Tum gentes sociae arma parant, fremit arma iuventus. Finit praefatio Ovidii Nasonis.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Aeneis VIII. (147v)
Incipit: Versus Ovidii Nasonis. Praeparat octavo bellum quos mittat in hostes
Explicit: Sortitus clipeo divina intentus in arte est.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Aeneis IX. (160r)
Incipit: Nonus habet pugnas nec adest dux ipse tumultu
Explicit: Iamque fatigatus recipit se in castra suorum. Explicit prologus Ovidii Nasonis.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Aeneis XI. (189r)
Incipit: Undecimo victa est non aequo Marte Camilla
Explicit: Deinde duces castris, donec cessere, minantur.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Aeneis XII. (204v)
Incipit: Incipit liber duodecimus. Duodecimo Turnus divinis occidit armis
Explicit: Circumfusa acie vita spoliavit et armis.
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- Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Annotator) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Servius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This complete edition of the works of Virgil (Bucolics, Georgics, Aeneid) is connected to Auxerre. In the beginning the manuscript contains numerous paratexts to Virgil, such as the vitae, Argumenta, etc.; beginning on f. 6v, the inner column is reserved for the text, the outer one for the scholia. Virgil's text is interspersed with numerous commentaries (scholia) from late antiquity by Servius and Donatus, which in this form have been transmitted almost exclusively in manuscripts from the Bongarsiana collection. Cod. 167 presents the true Scholia Bernensia, but only the left column, not the right column of Cod. 172; whether it was copied from the latter remains in dispute.
Online Since: 12/17/2015
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zur Aeneis. (6ra)
Incipit: Vergilius magno quantum concessit Homero
Explicit: Livoris titulum praeposuisse tibi.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu den Bucolica und Georgica. (6ra)
Incipit: Qualis Bocolicis, quantus tellure domanda
Explicit: Contineat quae quisque liber lege munera nostra.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Georgicon I. (20ra–vb)
Incipit: Praefatio libri primi Georgicorum orditur. Quid faciat laetas segetes, quae sidera servet
Explicit: Et docuit messes magno cum faenore reddi.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Georgicon II. (28ra)
Incipit: Praefatio libri secundi. Hactenus arvorum cultus et sidera caeli
Explicit: Atque oleae ramos, pomorum et condere laetos (darüber: fœtus).
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Georgicon III. (36vb)
Incipit: Incipit praefatio libri tertii. Teque Pales et [te] pastor memorande per orbem
Explicit: Omnia divino monstravit carmine vates.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Georgicon IV. (45ra)
Incipit: Incipit praefatio libri quarti. Protinus aerii mellis redolentia regna
Explicit: Indicat humentisque favos, caelestia dona.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Aeneis I. (54ra)
Incipit: Item eiusdem Nasonis. Aeneas primo Lybiae depellitur oris
Explicit: Excidium Troiae iussus narrare parabat.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Aeneis II. (66vb)
Incipit: Funera Dardaniae narrat fletusque secundo
Explicit: Ereptam fato socios in monte receptos.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Aeneis V. (79vb)
Incipit: Quintus habet ludos et classem corripit ignis
Explicit: Et placidum Aeneas Palinurum quaerit in undis.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Aeneis IV. (91ra)
Incipit: Incipit praefatio libri IIII. Incipit prologus Apollonius Argonautica scripsit ubi. At regina gravi Veneris iam carpitur igni
Explicit: Et vitam infelix multo cum sanguine fudit.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Aeneis X. (173vb)
Incipit: Incipit liber X. Occidit Aeneae decimo Mezentius ira
Explicit: Mox victor nati Mezentius occidit ipse.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Aeneis XI. (189ra)
Incipit: Undecimo victa est non aequo Marte Camilla
Explicit: Deinde duces castris, donec cessere, minantur.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Aeneis XII. (204va)
Incipit: Duodecimo Turnus divinis occidit armis
Explicit: Circumfusa acie vita spoliavit et armis.
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This complete edition of the works of Virgil is from Fleury. This manuscript contains only the Bucolics, the Georgics and the first five books of the Aeneid; the second part with books VI to XII is now in Paris (Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 7929). In the beginning the manuscript contains the so-called Vita Donatiana and various slightly later texts. It is made with great calligraphic care so that the central column is always bordered on the right and on the left by a column of scholia. Cod. 172 is the principal textual witness of the scholia (commentaries) by Servius and Donatus, which have been transmitted in this form almost exclusively in manuscripts from the Bongarsiana collection.
Online Since: 12/17/2015
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Georgicon I. (25vb)
Incipit: Quid faciat laetas segetes, quae sidere servat
Explicit: Et docuit messes magno cum foedere reddi.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Georgicon II. (36vb)
Incipit: Praefatio libri secundi orditur. Hactenus arvorum cultus et sidera caeli
Explicit: Atque oleae ramos, pomorum ex ordine laetus.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Georgicon III. (48rb)
Incipit: Incipit praefatio libri tertii. Teque Pales et pastorum memorande per orbem
Explicit: Omnia divino monstravit carmine vates.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Georgicon IV. (60rb)
Incipit: Incipit praefatio libri quarti. Protinus aerii mellis redolentia regna
Explicit: Indicat humentisque favos, caelestia dona.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Aeneis I. (72ra)
Incipit: Item versus Nasonis. Aeneas primo Libiae depellitur oris
Explicit: Excidium Troiae iussus narrare parabat.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Aeneis II. (88rc)
Incipit: Funera Dardaniae narrat fletusque secundo
Explicit: Ereptam fato socios in monte receptos.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumenta zu Aeneis IV. (119rb–vb)
Incipit: Incipit praefatio libri IIII. At regina gravi Veneris iam carpitur igni
Explicit: Et vitam infelix multo cum sanguine fudit.
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- Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Annotator) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Servius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
Many scribes contributed to the copies of the works of Horace, Virgil, Persius and Statius that have been brought together in CB 90. These humanistic re-copyings made in the 15th century demonstrate the reception of Latin authors in Renaissance Italy. Two leaves at the end of the manuscript are palimpsests: a letter from Ovid's Heroides (from Sappho to Phaon) and an extract from the Epigrams of Martial have been were written over the text of the biblical book of Tobit.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumentum Bucolicon (f. 162)
Incipit: Titirus agresti modo letus carmine ruris
Explicit: Pastorumque sonos faciles duxere cicute (4 v.).
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Anthologia latina 653 add. (f. 162)
Incipit: Iusserat hec rapidis aboleri carmina flammis
Explicit: Et pene est alia Troia cremata rogo (6 v.).
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Epitaphium Vergilii. (f. 162)
Incipit: Mantua me genuit Calabri rapuere tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua rura duces.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Heroides: XV (Sapho ad Phaonem, fragment). (f. 219-222)
Incipit: // Tunc te plus solito lasciuia nostra iuuabat (v. 47).
Explicit: Vt mihi Leucadię fata petantur aquę (v. 220 et dernier).
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Fasti (Verso du plat inférieur.)
Incipit: Nec tu quid uestam quam uiuam intellege flammam
Explicit: Nec capit et comites uirginitatis amat (liv. VI, v. 291-294).
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Metamorphoses (Verso du plat inférieur.)
Incipit: Flumina iam lactis iam flumina nectaris ibant (I, v. 111).
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- Allen, Henry Ellis (Former possessor) | Aurispa, Giovanni (Author) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Ennius, Quintus (Author) | Gargilius Martialis, Quintus (Author) | Germanicus, Julius Caesar (Author) | Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Author) | Lucretius Carus, Titus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Persius Flaccus, Aulus (Author) | Statius, Publius Papinius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This early 14th century manuscript was copied in Italy; it brings together Ovid's Ars amatoria (The Art of Love), two books of Priscian's grammar, excerpts from the Secretum secretorum, an incomplete book on physiognomy by an unknown author, as well as a series of hymns attributed to, among others, Gregory the Great, St. Ambrose or Sedulius. The manuscript, which is missing two leaves at the beginning, shows old signs of use, with commentaries and maniculae added in the margins. This copy has no decoration with the exception of several red and mauve pen-flourish initials, highlighted in gold and framed.
Online Since: 10/04/2018
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Ars amatoria (f. 1-14v) Found in: Standard description
- Ambrosianus (Author) | Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Damasus I, Papa (Author) | Elpis, Sicula (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Odo, Cluniacensis (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Paulinus, Aquileiensis (Author) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Philippus, Tripolitanus (Translator) | Priscianus, Caesariensis (Author) | Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius (Author) | Sedulius, Caelius (Author) | Venantius, Fortunatus (Author) Found in: Standard description
These fragments of Ovid's Fasti were discovered around 1700 in the monastery school of Ilfeld and have since been known as "Fragmentum Ilfeldense". In 1956 they became part of the collection of Martin Bodmer, after they had been used as endpapers or in a book binding. The Fasti is a poem in elegiac couplets, the theme of which is the Roman calendar – only the first six months – as well as the changes introduced at the beginning of the Empire with the feast days in memory of Augustus.
Online Since: 10/08/2020
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Fasti (fragments) Found in: Standard description
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Fasti (f. 1-16v)
Incipit: // Letiferi quot habent carmine nostra dies
Explicit: Magna fides auium est experiamur aues //
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- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
The double page at the beginning of this manuscript of the Metamorphoses and the Fasti of Ovid shows its connections to antiquity: the use of initials in the fashion of antiquity, the purple tint that colors the entire double page and the laurels that crown the poet's verses and anchor the production of this volume in the Italian Renaissance. The dedication in golden letters on the back of the first page confirm this origin: the manuscript was copied by the Neapolitan Ippolito Lunense for the secretary of Ferdinand I. of Aragon, Antonello Petrucci, whose coat of arms, surrounded by putti and horns of plenty, may be found on the back of the second page. The style, color and ink are changed according to the text. The decoration with bianchi girari of a very high quality is typical of Neapolitan production methods that were practiced by the royal illuminator Cola Rapicano.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Ovidius, Metamorphoses Found in: Standard description
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Ovidius, Fasti (f. 3) Found in: Standard description
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Tristia (f. IV)
Incipit: Orba parente svo qvicvmque volvmina cernis
Explicit: Emendatvrvs si licvisset eram (liv. I, 7 v. 35-40).
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Metamorphoses (f. 2-218v)
Explicit: Si quid habent ueri uatum pręsagia uiuam.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Summa memorialis (f. 2-218v) Found in: Standard description
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Fasti. (f. 220-291)
Incipit: Tempora cvm cavsis lativm digesta per annvm
Explicit: Annuit Alcides increpuitque lyra.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Conflictus ueris et hiemis. (f. 292-292v)
Incipit: Convenivnt svbito cvncti de montibus altis
Explicit: Salue dulce decus cucule per saecula salue (54 v.).
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- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Hawtrey, Edward Craven (Former possessor) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | Murray, Charles Fairfax (Former possessor) | Oricus, de Capriana (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Perrins, Charles William Dyson (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript from Italy contains Ovid's Metamorphoses. The text is annotated with marginal and interlinear glosses by various contemporaneous and Italian hands from the 15th century. Four types of notes can be discerned: structuring, lexical and philological, intertextual and commenting, which testify to the vitality of Ovid's text in the 14th century and up to the beginning of the modern era. The frontispiece is decorated with a letter surrounding a portrait of the author during the composition of his work, as well as a side border bearing an angel with red wings.
Online Since: 04/23/2013
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Metamorphoses Found in: Standard description
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Metamorphoses (1-195v)
Incipit: In nova fert Animus mutatas dicere formas
Explicit: Si quid habent ueri uatum presagia uiuam.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Tristia (extrait). (f. 195)
Incipit: Orba parente suo qui cum sua lumina tangis
Explicit: Emendaturus si licuisset eram.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Metamorphoses (Mutationes) (197v-199) Found in: Standard description
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- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
At an unknown date, this late 12th century parchment bifolium was used as binding, as attested by traces of folding in the lower margin. It contains an excerpt of the Tristia, a collection of letters in elegiac couplets written by Ovid during his exile. The text is continuous, which indicates that the bifolium came from the middle of a quire; only a few verses are missing due to a cut in the upper part of the leaf. It was purchased by Martin Bodmer in 1958 from the bookseller Kraus in New York.
Online Since: 06/13/2019
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Tristia (fragments) Found in: Standard description
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Tristia (fragment du liv. V) (f. 1-2v)
Incipit: // Vulneribusque meis tela cruenta sequor Quȩ que modo Euboicis macerata est fluctibus audet
Explicit: Scribis ut oblectem studio lacrimabile tempus //
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Ad Emulum (f. 1-2v) Found in: Standard description
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Ad Firmum (f. 1v) Found in: Standard description
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Ad Amicos (f. 2) Found in: Standard description
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Ad Uxorem (f. 2v) Found in: Standard description
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Tristia (fragment du liv. V) (f. 2v)
Explicit: Scribis ut oblectem studio lacrimabile tempus //
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- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript, which was probably created in the St. Matthias-Eucharius Abbey in Trier, clearly belonged to the Benedictine abbey, as the ex libris on f. 1r declares. It contains, among others, the Liber antiquitatum biblicarum, which recounts Biblical history from Adam to King Saul, i.e., from the Book of Genesis to the Book of Samuel. This work was falsely attributed to Philo of Alexandria (1st century AD), the Hellenistic philosopher of Jewish culture. It also contains excerpts from the Carmina by the poet and Bishop of Tours Hildebert of Lavardin (1056-1133).
Online Since: 12/18/2014
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Ps. Ovidius, De ludo scacchorum. (f. 123-124:)
Incipit: Qui cupit egregium scacorum noscere ludum
Explicit: Et mattum suffert si uia nulla patet (36 v.).
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- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Ess, Leander van (Former possessor) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hildebertus, Lavardinensis (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) | Philo, Alexandrinus (Author) | Robinson, William H. Ltd. (London) (Seller) Found in: Standard description
This elegant codex, written in humanist cursive, contains the Elegiae by the Latin elegiac poet Tibullus; this text was not very widely distributed in the Middle Ages, but was rediscovered by Italian humanists at the end of the 14th century. The manuscript was written and illuminated in Florence, perhaps for Braccio, a member of the Martelli family, who had his coat of arms added to the title page. Later the manuscript passed into the hands of the Medici family of Florence; they had their coat of arms painted on the front pastedown. In 1968 Martin Bodmer purchased the manuscript from the collection of Thomas Phillipps.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Amores (f. 61-63)
Explicit: Et sit humus cineri non onerosa tuo.
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- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Domitius, Marsus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) | Tibullus, Albius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This 12th century French manuscript contains the first six books of Virgil's Aeneid, along with the Argumenta attributed to Pseudo-Ovid. Among the famous previous owners of this codex is Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755), whose ex-libris is on f. 1r. Later the manuscript was owned by Sir Thomas Philipps (1792-1872). Martin Bodmer acquired this manuscript in 1966, during one of the auctions of the Philipps collection.
Online Since: 12/17/2015
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumentum. (10)
Incipit: Conticuere omnes et tunc fortissimus heros
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Argumentum. (f. 37)
Incipit: Qvintvs habet ludos
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- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) | Pickering, William (Seller) | Servius (Commentator) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This late Renaissance Italian humanist manuscript contains excerpts of various works by Latin and Greek authors, among them Pliny, Cicero, Silius Italicus, Plautus, Livy, Horace, Sallust, Plutarch, Seneca and others. Pellegrin, following Tammaro de Marinis, attributes the writing to the copyist Gian Marco Cinico, who worked for the kings of Naples between 1458 and 1494. The different parts are introduced by golden initials with bianchi girari, only partly completed (ff. 1v, 4v, 20r, 22r, 50r, 186v). Some of these bianchi girari are left unfilled on a blue, red, green or black background, others are colored pink, green or blue on a black or golden background. The vine scrolls are inhabited by putti and animals such as rabbits, stags, butterflies or birds. Numerous frames show putti engaged in hunting or other playful activities (e.g., ff. 55r, 79r, 139r, 169r).
Online Since: 12/17/2015
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: De philomela (f. 157-158v) Found in: Standard description
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Opera (f. 159-167v) Found in: Standard description
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Amores (f. 159-160v) Found in: Standard description
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Tristia (f. 161-167v) Found in: Standard description
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Catullus, Gaius Valerius (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Cinico, Giovan Marco (Scribe) | Claudianus, Claudius (Author) | Heilbrun, Georges (Seller) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Author) | Livius, Titus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Plautus, Titus Maccius (Author) | Plinius Secundus <Iunior> (Author) | Plutarchus (Author) | Rinutius, Aretinus (Translator) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius Asconius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) | Vitruvius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This document contains the cartulary and the tribute register of the Cluniac priory of Rüeggisberg in the canton of Bern, which was the first Cluniac priory in the German-speaking area and probably the oldest monastery in the Bernese area. The manuscript consists of two different parts, which were probably joined together in Bern at the beginning of the 16th century, or in 1484, when the priory was abolished and its assets were incorporated into the newly founded St. Vincent monastery of Bern. The first part (ff. 1-200 and 261-267) contains transcriptions made between 1425-1428 of various documents and bulls, and of the priory's register of tributes, which in turn had been copied from even older cartularies. The second part (ff. 201-260) contains documents copied from the collegiate monastery of St. Vincent in Bern.
Online Since: 10/08/2020
- Chym, Johannes (Bookbinder) | Gremaud, Jean (Librarian) | Meyer, Meinrad (Librarian) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
The Ovide moralisé is a poem consisting of 72,000 octosyllables. Between the end of the 13th century and the first quarter of the 14th century, the anonymous author translated the 15 books of Ovid's Metamorphoses by appropriating the ancient myths for the purposes of Christian edification. This Genevan exemplar, dated to the end of the 14th century, was illuminated by two artists, the Maître du Rational des divins offices and the Maître du Roman de la Rose.
Online Since: 06/23/2014
- Bourbon, Charles de (Former possessor) | Chrétien, Legouais (Author) | Lullin, Ami (Former possessor) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Petau, Alexandre (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript, written in early Gothic script and dated to the end of the 12th century, contains an incomplete copy of Ovid's Metamorphoses (2,52 – 3,466; 3,651 – 14,43; 14,414 – 15,668). There are marginal and interlinear glosses as well as variants by various hands.
Online Since: 06/22/2017
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoses Found in: Standard description
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- Guarnieri Ottoni, Aurelio (Former possessor) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Rauch, Nicolas (Seller) Found in: Standard description
The provost and dramatist Johannes Aal (ca. 1500-1551) was a leading figure in 16th century Solothurn. This composite manuscript, produced between 1517 and 1518, gives an insight into his time as a student. It contains excerpts on Greek and Latin grammar and rhetoric, writings on music theory, as well as excerpts from Petrarch, Guarini, Johannes Reuchlin, Sebastian Brant and others.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
- Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius: Grammatica graeca («Grecis quatuor et viginti littere: A.α. B.β ... Hȩ Litterȩ a grecis γραμματα vel ...»), f. 1r-43r; Quintilianus, Institutionum liber secundus [caput XVI § 14-19], f. 49r-61v; Joannes Reuchlin, Sergius vel capitis caput, f. 62r-76r; Guarino Guarini, De amore Alde virginis carmen, f. 76v-79v; Introductoria philosophie commendatio («Palladis ad munus iuuenes properate ...»), f. 80r-82v; Basilius, Opusculum ad nepotes suos de legendis libris secularibus Leonardo Bruno Aretino interprete, f. 85r-101v; Franciscus Petrarcha, Carmen in laude Marie Magdalene («Dulcis amica ...»), f. 101v-102v; Varia carmina, Opuscula et excerpta, f. 102v-124r; Franciscus Petrarcha, Planctus beate virginis («Ergo decens quam sol vescit ...», f. 124r-127r; Coelius Lactantius, Pia neuma domini crucifixi De passione domini, f. 127r-128v. Mapheus Veggius, Liber Tertius Decimus Additus Duodecim Aeneidos Libris, f. 129v-143v; Musica gregoriana («Manus est organum distinctis clauibus registratum ...»), f. 146r-167r; Musica figurata («Musica Inter ceteras artes Jucundissima ...» , f. 170r-195r; Ovidius Naso, Carmen de nuce, f. 196v-201r; Varia minora, f. 206v-210r. (f. 1r-43r) Found in: Standard description
- Aal, Johannes (Former possessor) | Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Guarinus, Veronensis (Author) | Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Petrarca, Francesco (Author) | Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius (Author) | Reuchlin, Johannes (Author) | Vegius, Mapheus (Author) Found in: Standard description
Five codicological units make up this paper manuscript; the text was written by one or more hands in the fifteenth century. The longest texts in the manuscript are the Tractatus de vitiis capitalibus, which is probably to be ascribed to Robert Holcot, the Dialogus rationis et conscientiae of Matthew of Krakow, and the Dialogus de celebratione missae by Henry of Hessia the Younger. The remaining texts are shorter, including sermons, spiritual instructions, and astrological and medical treatises. In addition, there are added numerous documents related to the Council of Constance (1414—1418) that deal with the condemnation of John Hus and with the question of Communion under both kinds.
Online Since: 09/22/2022
- Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
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- Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Arnulfus, de Boeriis (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Henricus, de Hassia (Author) | Henricus, de Segusia (Author) | Jacobus, de Cessolis (Author) | Jacobus, de Noviano (Author) | Jacobus, Laudensis, Bischof (Author) | Johannes, Andreae (Author) | Johannes, de Toleto (Author) | Johannes, Gerson (Author) | Matthaeus, de Cracovia (Author) | Metzler, Jodokus (Annotator) | Metzler, Jodokus (Librarian) | Nikolaus, von Essen (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Petrus, de Alliaco (Author) | Raimundus, de Pennaforti (Author) | Robertus, Holcot (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Arnulfus, de Boeriis (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Henricus, de Hassia (Author) | Henricus, de Segusia (Author) | Jacobus, de Cessolis (Author) | Jacobus, de Noviano (Author) | Jacobus, Laudensis, Bischof (Author) | Johannes, Andreae (Author) | Johannes, de Toleto (Author) | Johannes, Gerson (Author) | Matthaeus, de Cracovia (Author) | Metzler, Jodokus (Annotator) | Metzler, Jodokus (Librarian) | Nikolaus, von Essen (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Petrus, de Alliaco (Author) | Raimundus, de Pennaforti (Author) | Robertus, Holcot (Author) Found in: Additional description
This undecorated manuscript for practical use, containing the commentary of Boethius on Aristotle's Categories (Categoriae), was written at the Abbey of St. Gall during the 11th century. On the last three pages is the beginning of Ovid's De arte amandi.
Online Since: 04/15/2010
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Ars amatoria ( 94-96) Found in: Standard description
- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: De arte amandi (p. 94-95) Found in: Additional description
- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Ovidius de arte amandi I, v. 1-230 (cum glossa lat. interlin.) Found in: Additional description
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: de arte amandi (S. 94-96) Found in: Additional description
- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) Found in: Additional description
This manuscript, written in 1499 under the schoolmaster Cunradus Reuschman of Lindau (note on p. 488), contains predominantly works by ancient writers, as well as several works by 15th century Italian authors. All texts have commentaries, and the more important works are generally preceded by an argumentum. Often there are several pages left blank between the texts. In the margins, there are several simple pen sketches (pp. 498–501, 504, 511, 513; on p. 706 and 712 sketches of maps of the world). P. 3 contains a full-page pen sketch of the city of Troy. The individual texts are: Publius Baebius Italicus, Ilias latina (pp. 5–51); Virgil, Georgica (pp. 57–146); Horace, Epistolae (pp. 148–230); Horace, Carmen saeculare (pp. 231–234); Lactantius, De ave Phoenice (pp. 234–241); Persius, Satires (pp. 245–282); Margarita passionis, inc. Cum prope pasca foret (pp. 283–288); Seneca, De providentia (pp. 289–298); Augustinus Datus, Elegantiolae (pp. 323–361); Carmen de dolo et astutia cuiusdam mulieris, inc. Summe procus caveat ducatur ne mala coniunx (pp. 362–365); hymns (pp. 366–388); Parvulus philosophiae moralis (pp. 395–417); Dominicus Mancinus, De quattuor virtutibus (pp. 419–488); Hieronimus de Vallibus, Jesuida (pp. 491–514); Matthaeus Bossus, Oratio in beata coena domini (pp. 515–524); Ps.-Leonardo Bruni Aretino, Comoedia Poliscena (pp. 539–549); Terence, Andria (pp. 563–621); Virgil, Bucolica (pp. 629–660); Horace, Ars poetica (pp. 661–678); Horace, Epodes (pp. 679–692); Ps.-Virgil, Moretum (pp. 692–694); Ps.-Ovid, Remedia amoris, inc. Qui fuerit cupiens ab amica solvere colla (pp. 694–695); Ps.-Ovid, De arte amandi, inc. Si quem forte iuvat subdi sapienter amori (pp. 695–698); a treatise on punctuation, De kanone punctorum (pp. 699); Virgil, Aeneis, lib. 1 and 3 (pp. 701–726 and 741–760); Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae (pp. 765–802); Sallust, De bello Iugurthino, incomplete (pp. 803–804); Seneca, Epistolae morales (pp. 812–853).
Online Since: 10/04/2018
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Tetrastichon in primum librum Georgicorum (p. 56)
Incipit: Quid faciat letas segestes
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Remedia amoris (pp. 694-695)
Incipit: Qui fuerit cupiens ab amica solvere colla.
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- Ovidius Naso, Publius: De arte amandi (pp. 695-698)
Incipit: Si quem forte iuvat subdi sapienter amori.
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- Anonymus (Author) | Augustinus, Dati (Author) | Baebius, Italicus (Author) | Bosso, Matteo (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Author) | Hieronymus, de Vallibus (Author) | Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Author) | Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (Author) | Mancinus, Dominicus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Persius Flaccus, Aulus (Author) | Pindarus (Author) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Terentius Afer, Publius (Author) | Trutfetter, Jodocus (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: de remediis amoris. Found in: Additional description
- Anonymus (Author) | Augustinus, Dati (Author) | Baebius, Italicus (Author) | Bosso, Matteo (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Author) | Hieronymus, de Vallibus (Author) | Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Author) | Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (Author) | Mancinus, Dominicus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Persius Flaccus, Aulus (Author) | Pindarus (Author) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Terentius Afer, Publius (Author) | Trutfetter, Jodocus (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Additional description
This codex consists of four independently produced parts, probably not written in St. Gall: 1. Horace, Odae (incomplete at the end, with some glosses); 2. Lucan, Pharsalia (incomplete at the end, heavily glossed; 3. Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae (complete) and De bello Iugurthino (with some chapters missing); 4. Ovid, Amores (incomplete at the end, heavily glossed) and a page from the Metamorphoseon.
Online Since: 03/31/2011
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: P. Ovidii N. Amorum libri III (S. 350-396) Found in: Standard description
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: P. Ovidii N. Metamorphoseon Liber III (S. 405) Found in: Standard description
- Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Author) | Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) Found in: Standard description
A much-used school manuscript containing the 15 books of the Metamorphoses by Publius Ovidius Naso with many interlinear and marginal glosses in Latin. The parchment shows signs of heavy use as well as dirt, and it is sewn in various places. Before the first pagination of the manuscript by the assistant librarian Ildefons von Arx around 1780, the text from Book 8, V. 564, to Book 10, V. 429, was missing, as noted on p. 62. At the end of the manuscript, there are pen trials, some of them of historical content, such as the mention of an earthquake on September 4, 1298 on p. 112 or the mention of a scribe by the name of Johannes (Qui me scribebat Iohannes nomen habebat).
Online Since: 06/23/2014
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Metamorphoseon libri XV. Found in: Standard description
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Ovid's Pontics constitute the only text of this gothic-minuscule manuscript copied by a single thirteenth-century hand. Divided into four books in modern editions, the 46 letters, poetic elegies related to the poet's exile in Tomis, here follow without interruption. Simple initials painted in red distinguish the letters from each other until p. 66; afterwards, there are only the blank spaces for the initials that were not produced. In addition to maniculae in the margins, there are numerous interlinear and marginal glosses, which more or less date to the same period as the text's script.
Online Since: 09/22/2022
- Ovidius Naso, Publius: Epistolae de Ponto Found in: Standard description
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