Shelfmark
MS 91
Author
Title
Ovidius. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: P. Ovidii Nasonis opera
Publication, distribution, etc.
France?, between ca. 1200 and ca. 1250.
Physical description
1 volume (iv, 169, iii leaves) : parchment ; 27 x 19.5 cm.
Note
Collection of works by or here attributed to Ovid: Heroides (ff. 1-18); Amores (ff. 18-30v); De arte amandi (ff. 30v-42); Remedia amoris (ff. 42v-46); Nux (ff. 46v-47); Somnium (f. 47v); 'Rosa Ausonii' (ff. 47v-48, title added by Patrick Young in the 17th century); De pulice (f. 48), De cuculo (f. 48rv); Fasti (ff. 49-66v, 91-92v, 67-71v); a Roman calendar for January-July only (f. 72rv); Metamorphoses (ff. 73-90v, 93-134v); Tristia (ff. 135-152v); Epistolae ex Ponto (ff. 153-169); De mirabilis mundi (early addition, f. 169rv).
Note
All but 'Rosa Ausonii' and the calendar are listed in a 15th-century table of contents on f. iv verso under the heading 'Libri Ouidii'; the former item is included in the numeration of the table but without an entry opposite.
Note
The first nine works (up to and including De cuculo) are on quires 1-4, the Fasti and the calendar on quires 5-6, and Metamorphoses on quires 7-11. The quire signatures suggest that the final three items (ff. 135-169) originally followed calendar, but the table shows that the present order is medieval.
Note
Books 5, 11 and 20 of the Amores are preceded by couplets; see Ker as cited in the references below for details.
Note
In book 1 of the Fasti, line 658 consists only of the first two words 'Nec semen' and in books 4 and 5 a dozen lines are unfinished, suggesting the exemplar was damaged; see Ker for details.
Note
The Roman calendar is different from that printed in Burmann's edition of Heroides, Amsterdam, 1727.
Note
Leaf iv is a medievaal flyleaf.
Note
Written space: ca. 180 x 112 mm.
Note
Two columns of 50 lines.
Note
First line of writing below the top ruled line.
Note
Collation: 1-5¹² 6¹⁴ (ff. 61-6, 91, 92, 67,-72) 7¹² 8¹² (ff. 85-90, 93-98) 9¹² (bound wrongly: see above) 10-13¹² 14¹² wants 12, blank.
Note
The error in binding quire 9 is old, with corrections to show the correct order in a medieval hand on ff. 102-3 and 107-8, a note about the dislocation signed 'R.O. and dated 29 January 1842, and a note that sheet 3 of the quire is bound inside sheet 4, dated 6 March 1878 by Henry Bradshaw who has also foliated the leaves to show the correct reading order.
Note
Quires 1-6, 12, 13 numbered at the end I-IIII, VI-IX; quires 2-14 marked at the beginning in pencil, a-r, in a 15th-century hand.
Note
Written (except for the final item) in very small hands, with pentameters spread out by the scribes to fill the space of hexameters.
Note
Initials: decorated pink initial on blue ground (f. 1); other initials in red and blue with ornament of both colours; initials in red or blue with ornament of the other colour, ranged with the capital letters slightly outside the written space.
Note
Secundo folio: Quisquis ab.
Note
Rebound in the 18th century.
Note
Possibly written in France rather than England, except for the final item in a 13th-century English hand, and 14th-century English marginalia.
Note
The same pieces in the same order under the heading 'Omnes libri Ouidii' were in a manuscript at Christ Church, Canterbury and listed in the early 14th-century catalogue as one of 33 'Libre Ade prioris'. See M. R. James, Ancient libraries of Canterbury and Dover (1903), p. 72 no. 632.
Note
Erasures of inscriptions on verso of f. iv; a 14th-century ex-libris on f. 1 reading "[.....] ex liberalitate [....] parcat deus amen" was partially erased and written over in the 15th century "Liber collegii beate marie prope Winton".
Note
In a 14th-century hand on f. 1: "Liber viius [i.e. septimus]"
Note
Given to Eton in 1695; see provenance notes below for the manuscript's post-medieval provenance.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bk.6.18.
Note
This catalogue record is based on the work of Neil Ker and M.R. James, as cited in the references below.
Citation/references note
Ker, N. R.. Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), p. 705-707
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 91
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 91
Additional physical form available
Reproduction available; Bodleian Library; Eton College Library should be contacted for permission to reproduce; SFW 3955
Provenance
Probably at Christ Church, Canterbury in the early 14th century (see above).
Provenance
At Winchester College in the 15th century (see above).
Provenance
Inscription on f. iv in a legal hand recording donation of the book to John Savage by his paternal uncle William Savage on 7 May 1602.
Provenance
Belonged presumably to Patrick Young (d. 1652) who wrote notes on f. 18 and elsewhere, and loaned the manuscript to Nicholas Heinsius in 1639; cf. F. W. Lenz in Eranos, v. 51 (1953) p. 76 and v. 61 (1963) p. 115.
Provenance
Inscription of Bart. van Wouw dated 26 October 1650 on f. iv.
Provenance
Inscription on f. iv recording donation to Eton College in 1695 by Moyle; there was a Moyle in the school in 1678.
Binding
18th century English mottled calf.
Subject
Subject
Subject
Latin poetry Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Wouw, Bartholomeus van former owner.
Added entry--name
Young, Patrick, 1584 - 1652 former owner.
Added entry--name
Heinsius, Nicolaas, 1620 - 1681 associated name.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Christ Church Priory (Canterbury, England) former owner.
Added entry--name
Winchester College former owner.
Added entry--place
England.
Added entry--place
France.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50019