Codices Vossiani Latini
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Title:
Description in De Meyier Catalog
Language:
Latin
Date range:
Second half 12th c.
Author(s):
Horace (65-27 BC) (1r-107r)
Anonymous (107r-109v)
Niccoló Perotti (1430-1480) (110r)
Anonymous (107r-109v)
Niccoló Perotti (1430-1480) (110r)
Description:
VLO 6 is a parchment codex from the second half of the 15th c., its 113 leaves measuring 210 x 145 mm. Written space covers 155 x 80 mm (28 lines in hard point ruling). The text is written in Littera humanistica textualis/cursiva. Fol. 1r contains a lavishly decorated major initial. There are major and minor rubricated initials throughout the manuscript, although some have not been filled out. Inscriptions are rubricated. Sometimes letters within the text are also highlighted in red. The codex has a 19th-c. cardboard binding with multi-coloured paper protection. Its corners and spine are in parchment. This binding replaced the old binding from Thévenot's time.
Classification:
Antiquity - Classical literature - Poetry - Correspondence (1r-109v)
Middle Ages - Poetry - Classical literature (110r)
Middle Ages - Poetry - Classical literature (110r)
Other Resources:
==> Library Catalogue Universiteit Leiden
==> Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections database
==> Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections database
DOI:
10.1163/9789004264243_O_006
Journal:
VLO 006 - Horatius, Nic. Perottus, Res Metricae