Bucolica
Subtitle: Georgica ; Aeneis
Contributors: Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner; Frost, H. Harvey, former owner
Series: Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Published: 13uu
Language: lat
Number of pages: 144
Other titles: Phillipps MS 6549; Aeneis.; Georgica.
Work titles: Works
Notes: Written in a gothic rotunda book hand in one column in black ink, initials separated into the margin and highlighted in red and blue. At the end of each book is one initial letter in red or blue with pen-work decoration, below which the initial letter of the new book is painted in colors. There are 16 painted initials in all, some with extra foliate or zoomorphic decoration.

A historiated initial T on f. 3r shows a teacher and two students.

There are marginal commentaries on many leaves in various small later hands.

On a front vellum flyleaf is a drawing of a flying fish within a double circle, with Latin verses above and a medical recipe below.

On a flyleaf at the end are 12 lines of verse beginning "Rumpitur invidia quid am charissime Julii."

Bound in full red morocco, gilt.

In a tray case, 39 cm.

MS Typ 335. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Also available in an electronic version.