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Manuscript: Virgil, Aeneid; Ovid, Ars Amatoria

Written on paper in German littera hybrida, in the second half of the 15th century.

A cheap book for students, containing the texts of two important classical works.  Its (originally) wide margins are heavily annotated, perhaps with lecture notes, by a contemporary German scholar.

Cent Rare PA 6801. A2 1484.   On f. 1r, in a 16th-century hand ‘Sum ex libris Elia. Hutt[ . . .] 80 [lined through] 83’;  on f. 324r ‘Hic liber est Leonardi de bylb’ [lined through].  Pen-trials on f. 324v. include words and phrases in German: ‘florentina mater’,  ‘wie gernn,’ ‘Iunckfraw Elisabett in asiam,’ ‘Junckfraw ir Seyts gar wolgem’m auf.’  Acquired by the University Library from the New York bookseller B. M. Rosenthal in 1961.

 

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