Special Collections & Archives: MS.F.3.6: Ovid, Heroides

LUL MS.F.3.6: Ovid, Heroides. In Latin. Italy or Spain. Late 14th century.

Physical description: On thick parchment. i + 55 + i leaves, 240 x 170 mm.

Contents: Ovid Heroides to Ep.xxi.14. 'Ouidii Epistolarum 'liber' feliciter Incipit' ... 'Explicit liber Ouidii epistolarum'.

Decoration: Initials: 2-line red or blue with blue or red; decoration sparse after f.30.

Binding: 17th century(?) Spanish stamped binding.

Provenance 1450-1500: marginal notes.

Provenance: 1813-1850: Payne & Foss, booksellers.

Provenance -1850: Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) MS 4199.

Provenance 1926-1926: Bequeathed by John Percival Postgate (1853-1926), Professor of Latin, to the University of Liverpool, 1926.

Published citations and unpublished notes:

1971: Former MSS handlist note records, "Probably Italian. Dr R.W. Hunt, 1971".

1978: Former MSS handlist records, "Italian, late 14th or early 15th c. Dr A.C. de la Mare, May 1978".