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Title

  • Metamorphoses.

Summary

  • This document, known as the Neapolitan Ovid, can be traced with certainty to the region of Puglia (Apulia) in southern Italy, where it most likely was copied at the Monastery of San Benedetto di Bari. The work is a testament to the oldest manuscript tradition relating to the Metamorphoses, a Latin narrative poem by the first-century Roman poet Ovid, which was popular in Europe in the Middle Ages. The codex includes illustrations in bright colors that reflect the several styles that combined in southern Italy in the 11th century under the influence of the Normans, gradually replacing older Langobard and Arab traditions. Also apparent are influences from Byzantium and the Levant. The manuscript is written in a Bari variant of the Beneventan script, the national script of southern Italy between 800 and 1200. Now in the custody of the National Library in Naples, the codex once belonged to the Neapolitan convent of San Giovanni a Carbonara.

Names

  • Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Author.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1000 to 1200]

Headings

  • -  Italy
  • -  800 B.C. to 44 B.C
  • -  Codex
  • -  Illuminations
  • -  Mythology, Greek

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: Manuscript on parchment; binding in vellum; I, 201, II, illuminated; 295 X 166 millimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: National Library of Naples.
  • -  Content in Bari.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Illuminated Manuscripts from Europe

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667680

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 Or 18 A.D. Author. Metamorphoses. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1200, 1000] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667680/.

APA citation style:

Ovid, 4. B. C. -. O. 1. A. D. A. (1000) Metamorphoses. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1200] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667680/.

MLA citation style:

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 Or 18 A.D. Author. Metamorphoses. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1200, 1000] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667680/>.