Ars poetica [and] Epistulae
Subtitle: Italy
Contributors: Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463
Published: 1370
Language: lat
Number of pages: 33
Notes: Two texts:  Ars poetica, ff. 1-8v; Epistulae, ff. 9-33.

Epistulae missing one leaf after f. 9 with loss of Ep. 1.1:60-1.2:11; Ep. 2.1:21, 2.1:183 & 2.1:194-195 omitted in copying but added in the margins.

Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata 30-31, on flyleaf.

Opening initials on ff. 1 & 9 in red with minor flourishing.

Reader notes sometimes translating into Italian.

Refoliated, December 1994.

Bound in old wooden boards with leather back.

Written in Italy toward the end of the 14th century.

De Ricci. Census, p. 1771

1936 M-1936 Plimpton, G.A. Bequest

In Latin, written mainly in a small minuscule bookhand.

Early modern (?) ownership note in lower margin of f. 1, "Nicolaus ..." (remainder cancelled).

Giraud-Badin sale, Paris, 13 June 1931, no. 79.

Bequest of George A. Plimpton, 1936.

See forthcoming catalog.

Cataloged 02/10/1995