Beinecke MS 174                                                     Germany, s. XV^^ex
Ovid, Remedia amoris, etc.

     1. f. 1r-v    Prefatory material including: notes from Horace
     concerning Heroici, Satirici, Lirici, Elegiaci, Comici, Tragici,
     Fabulosi; Epitaph of Ovid, beginning: Quisquis lege versus oculo
     properante viator/...[Walther, Initia 16190]; passage on the life of
     Ovid, beginning: Presens autor prenomine publius nomine Ouidius...;
     short selections entitled: De Qualitate carminis, De intencione
     autoris, Continuacio textus.

     2. ff. 2r-18r    Publij Ouidij Nazonis sidmonensis amoris de remedio
     elegiaticum opus incipit. Legerat huius amor titulum nomenque
     libelli/...Carmine sanati femina uir [o crossed out] que meo. P. Oui Na
     [sic] de Remedio amoris liberi [sic] expliciunt. f. 18v blank

          E. J. Kenney, ed., Remedia amoris, etc., OCT (1961) pp. 205-37;
     text is accompanied by marginal and interlinear glosses.

     3. ff. 19r-23r    Opusculum perutile et breue continens compendiose
     Quod Oui [sic] in 3bus libris in de arte amandi dispendiose
     conscripsit. Si quem forte iuuat subidi sapienter amori/...Plenus hic
     ameno carmine doctus erit. Et tantum de arte amandi sequitur de remedio
     ouidij.

          Pseudo-Ovid; E. J. Thiel, "Mittellateinische Nachdichtungen von
     Ovids 'Ars amatoria' und 'Remedia amoris'," Mittellateinisches
     Jahrbuch
     5 (1968) pp. 168-77.

     4. f. 23r    Ex stacio et prudencio. Maior in exiguo regnabit corpore
     virtus [Walther, Sprichwoerter 14274]. Simicus patricius. Omnis
     ostendacio non tacet suspicionem mendacij....

     5. ff. 23r-24r    Nosse primum decet quantum sit femina turpis/...Nec
     petat hanc rursus nec petat inde magis. Et tantum de remedio amoris et
     finit feoliciter [sic] etc. ff. 24v-25v blank

          Pseudo-Ovid; Thiel, op. cit., pp. 177-80.

     6. ff. 26r-29v    Pseudo-Vergil. Short poems, all of which are
     accompanied by marginal and interlinear glosses:
          a. f. 26r    De vino et venere: [N]ec veneris nec tu bachi
     capiaris amore/...[Walther, Initia 11706].
          b. f. 26r-v    De liuore seu invidio liuor tabificum malis fenenum
     [sic]/...[Walther, Initia 10378].
          c. ff. 26v-27r    De lucro: Sperne lucrum vexat mentes vesana
     libido/...[Walther, Initia 18488].
          d. f. 27r    De sole et die: Clarus inoffenso procedat lumine
     titan/....
          e. f. 27r-v    De fortuna. fortuna potens tantum/ iuris atrox que
     vendicas/...[Walther, Initia 6810].
          f. ff. 27v-28r    Hortulus: Adeste muse maximi proles
     iouis/...[Walther, Initia 518].
          g. f. 28r    De seipso et humero: Mellifluum quisquis romanum
     nescit homerum/...[Walther, Initia 10873].
          h. f. 28r-v    De uiro sapiente et bono: Vir bonus et sapiens
     qualem vix reperit ullum/...
          i. ff. 28v-29r    De est et non est: Est et non cuncti montasaba
     [written above: monisilba] non frequetant/...[Walther, Initia 5658].
          j. f. 29r-v    De littera Y: Littera pitagore discrimine secta
     bicorni/...[Walther, Initia 10361].
          k. f. 29v    De orpheo: Threicius quondam vates et fide creditur
     canora/...[Walther, Initia 19280].

          Articles 7-9 and 12-18, composed by Johannes Fabri de Werdea (b.
     1450), are listed by J. Stohlmann in Verfasserlexikon: Die deutsche
     Literatur des Mitellalters, Band 2, Lieferung 3 (Berlin, 1977) 690-95.

     7. ff. 29v-30v    Quorundam notabilium questionum [Walther,
     Initia
     16104/5].

     8. ff. 30v-32r    De musis [Walther, Initia 11936/7, 9951].

     9. ff. 32v-33r    De moribus studentum et beanorum [Walther, Initia
     382].

     10. f. 33v    Prefatory material on Vergil the poet.

     11. ff. 34r-36v    [I]am nox hibernas bis quinque peregerat/...Atque
     agit in segetes et terre condit aratrum/ finis.

          Pseudo-Vergil, Moretum; W. V. Clausen et al., eds., OCT (1966) pp.
     158-63.

     12. ff. 36v-38v    Carmen de philosophia [Walther, Initia 2436]. f.
     39r-v blank

     13. ff. 40r-43v    Carmen de fine et vtilitate posis [Walther,
     Initia
     9927].

     14. ff. 43v-45r    Carmen de tribus deabus fatalibus [Walther,
     Initia
     4170].

     15. ff. 45r-46r    Carmen de beate virginis visitatione [preceded by a
     short selection, an introductory paragraph, in prose].

     16. ff. 46v-49r    Carmen de vtilitate poesis [Walther, Initia 4403].

     17. ff. 49v-50r    Carmen de bonis moribus [title lacking; Walther,
     Initia 6100].

     18. ff. 50r-52r    Carmen questionum utrum scire malum sit [title
     lacking]. f. 52v blank

          Paper (watermarks: similar to Briquet Balance 2411, and similar in
     design to Piccard Ochsenkopf XII. 732-735 and Briquet Tete de boeuf 14552),
     ff. ii (paper) + 52 + ii (paper), 320 x 212 (280 x 108) mm. Written in
     ca. 25 lines of verse; double vertical bounding lines and additional
     rulings in inner and outer margins to delineate columns for marginal
     annotations; ruled in hard point.
          I-II^^12, III-IV^^14.
          Written in running script exhibiting batarde influence for both
     text and commentary.
          Plain 2-line initial, in red, on f. 2r. Some underlining and
     initial strokes, in red, for ff. 1r-6r only.
          Some of marginalia lost in gutter.
          Binding: s. xix. Half red-brown goatskin, gold-tooled. Marbled
     paper sides. Emblem and motto ("Endure fort") on front cover.

          Written in Germany toward the end of the 15th century; early
     provenance unknown. Pencilled note on flyleaf: "Said to be in the
     handwriting of Melancthon [1479-1560?]", but does not resemble printed
     facsimiles of his hand. Obtained from Dobell (The Ingatherer, no. 22,
     Feb. 1932, no. 13) by David Wagstaff (bookplate). Gift of Mrs. David
     Wagstaff in 1944.

     secundo folio: Publij Ouidij

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 2, p. 1906, no. 21. ; Faye and Bond,
     p. 36, no. 174.

     Barbara A. Shailor