Ovid, Metamorphoses

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Elbląg, Biblioteka Elbląska im. C. Norwida, SD.XVI.2034-2036 (inw. 2259)

Remarks by the Editor

In collaboration with Ewa Chlebus

General Information

Title Ovid, Metapophoses
Material Parchment

Original Condition

Page Width 147 mm
Width of Written Area 68 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 68 mm
Line Height 4 mm

Current Condition

Dimensions 147 x 96 mm

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Littera notabiliora

Content

  • Content Item
    • Content Description

      Front cover:
      2 (1v):
      [lib. 11, v. 64-85] hic modo coniunctis spatiantur passibus ambo ...><... Nec satis hoc Baccho est: ipsos quoque deserit agros
      1 (1r):
      [lib. 11, v. 106-128] ilice detraxit virgam: virga aurea facta est ...><... urit, et inviso meritus torquetur ab auro

      Back cover:
      2 (2v):
      [lib. 11, v. 767-787] pectus habens silvas captatam sepe per omnes ...><... obstari que anime misera de sede volenti
      1 (2r):
      [lib. 12, v. 22-39] fit lapis et servat serpentis imagine saxum ...><... inspicitur, penetrat que cavas vox omnis ad aures.

    • front_cover_2 (1v)
    • Glosses and Additions 13th century interlinear and marginal glosses

History

Provenance

1. Henricus Dickhoff sibi hunc librum [...]dicat (inscription on the front flyleaf)
2. Elb[inger] Gymn[asiums-]Bibl[iothek] (stamp on the title page)

Host Volume

Title Annotationes Philippi Melanchthonis in Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos unam: et ad Corinthios duas, diligentiß. recognitae; Item Praefatio Methodica in Epistolam ad Roma. Lutheri, Argentorati: apud Joh. Herwagium, 1524; Annotationes Phi. Melanchthonis, omnium eruditiss. In Euangelium Matthaei: pro communi Christianismi commodo, [Tübingen]: [Morhart], 1523; Philipp Melanchthon, Annotationes in Iohannem: castigatiores quam quae antea invulgatae sunt. Utpote in quibus multa, quae desunt in aliis, habentur, [Hagenoa]: [per Johann Secerium], 1523.
Remarks

Dutch binding. Originally, the parchment waste was used as pastedowns (see: http://pracownia-konserwacji.blogspot.com/2013/09/konserwacja-drukow-melanchtona-cz1.html)