Item 230 - Notebook containing extracts from Seneca, Terence, Livy etc, with printed pages from Ovid's Metamorphoses

Identity area

Reference code

Add. MS c/230

Title

Notebook containing extracts from Seneca, Terence, Livy etc, with printed pages from Ovid's Metamorphoses

Date(s)

  • 16th c.? (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

1 volume: MS and Printed text

Context area

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Extracts from Seneca (Hippolytus) and Terence (in secretary hand), Greek verse, and extract from Livy (in an italic hand). Printed text of Ovid Metamorphoses (Book XV, lines 596-834) bound in at end of volume. Before these printed pages, and written fromread more

Conditions of access and use area

Language of material

  • Ancient Greek
  • English
  • Latin

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Much damaged by mould, particularly MS pages at beginning and end of the volume which have been conserved; edges of pages in middle of volume still fragile.