Beinecke MS 183                                                          Italy, s. XV
Ovid, Ars amatoria

          ff. 1r-42v    //Profuit et tenui uentos mouisse flabello/ Et caua
     sub tener [hole in page] edem/...vt quondam iuuenes ita nunc mea turba
     puelle/ inscribant folijs Naso magister erat. Explicit liber nasonis de
     arte amandi felliciter amen. Amen. ff. 43r-44v blank, except for random
     scribblings (e.g., Omnia uincit amor et non [sic] cedamus amori).

          E. J. Kenney, ed., Amores, etc., OCT (1961) pp. 119-200. Yale MS
     183 begins abruptly at Book 1.161 and exhibits frequent lacunae and
     interpolations (e.g., the text skips from 1.198 to 263, and inserts two
     lines between 1.331 and 332).

          Paper (watermarks: unidentified balance, in gutter), ff. iii
     (paper) + 44 + iii (paper), 220 x 143 (140 x 99) mm. Written in 24
     lines of verse; double vertical bounding lines. Ruled in lead or ink;
     prickings in outer margin.
          I^^10 (-1, 2), II-IV^^10, V^^6. Catchwords along lower edge, in
     gutter.
          Written by a single scribe in humanistic script; marginal notes in
     italic.
          Crude initials on ff. 15r and 30v, 8-line, outlined in black and
     filled with various shades of red and yellow; the first initial
     incorporates a grotesque. Smaller plain initials, some paragraph marks,
     and initial strokes, in red. Spaces left for headings.
          Stained and/or repaired throughout; loss of text on f. 1.
          Binding: s. xx. Grey paper case with a dark brown calf label,
     gold-tooled.

          Written in Italy in the 15th century; early provenance unknown.
     Belonged to Baron Horace de Landau (1824-1903, bookplate inside front
     cover; see his Catalogue des livres manuscrits et imprimes [Florence,
     1890] v. 2, p. 102, no. 206 bis); sale (Geneva, 1948, no. 101).
     Acquired from C. A. Stonehill in 1948 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate) and
     presented to Yale in 1951.

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 37, no. 183.

     Barbara A. Shailor