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Subject(s)

• Epistolary poetry, Latin [Browse]
• Mythology, Classical—Poetry [Browse]
• Love-letters—Poetry [Browse]
• Love poetry, Latin [Browse]
• Women—Poetry [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—Italy [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 107 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Notes

• Title from printed catalog.
• Script: Humanistica antiqua, by several scribes.
• Decoration: The Heroides open with a 5-line gold initial H “Hanc tua Penelope” (fol. 2r), with vine-stem decoration within a gold frame outlined in black; full border with vine-stem decoration containing putti with red necklaces, 3 green parrots (?) and 2 rabbits, with gold inner and outer frame; arms below, within blue framed motto.

Binding note

Italy, late 15th century. Brown leather over oak boards (7 mm thick); blind tooled and gilt arabesque stamps and interlacing patterns form a frame and a central medallion.

Contents

• 1. i (verso): “Publius Ovidius Naso Pelignus Natus eo anno quo Hirtius et Pansa in mutinensi bello perierint ...” Explicit: “Filiam habuit unicam nomine perillam: pauca carmina et nimium canina contra eum qui uxorem stuprauerit composuit sub nomine Ibidis.”
• 2.2r-67v: “Publii Ovidii Nasonis epistularum liber I. Hanc Tua Penelope Lento Tibi Mittit Vlixe | Nil mihi rescribas attamen ipse ueni ...” Explicit (Ep. XXI, line 12): “Quos vereor paucos ne velit esse mihi.”
• 3.67v-69v: “Respontio [that is, Responsio] Phaonis ad Saphonem Lesbiden per Ioannem Baptistam Capranicensem. Venit ad ethereas mihi nuper epistola terras | Moxque tua est oculis cognita lesbi meis ...” Explicit: “Per mare tranquillum uetero spirante uenimus | Obuia sis salua lesbi puella uiro.”

Provenance

Garrett MS. 107 may have been produced in Rome. De Ricci turned to Albert van de Put, who was a curator of pottery at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, for his expertise on heraldry, and suggested that the manuscript belonged to the Boccacci d'Orso family of Rome. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript from the sale of the collection of Oliver Henry Perkins of Iowa in New York on 24 March 1926. His gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 233-235.

Cite as

Garrett MS. 107, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1098107848

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