1537 Homeri Vita

Leather binding—dark brown. Imprinted ornaments faded. Three raised bands on the spine. Book Measuring. 25 mm height x 100 mm width x 160 mm length. End pages worth examining. Both are from a different text and even some handwritten excerpts are used to keep the codex together.

1^st Book = 160 pages    2^nd Book = 40

Front scrap paper. It is the second book of Ovid's Nasonis Fastorvm or "P. OVIDI NASONIS FASTORVM LIBER SECVNDVS" at the top titled as "Liber II"

Begins with line 733 "surgit cui dederat clarum Collatia nomen/ 'non opus est verbis, credite rebus' ait./'nox superest: tollamur equis Urbemque petamus';/dicta placent, frenis impediuntur equi."

Close to the spine there is a different scrap paper in cursive handwriting (black ink)

This is the incipit page of the body text. It is signed at the bottom "A." The decorated/floriated initial at the top left corner is an "S" commencing the word "Svperva"

This is a sample page of what the main body-text of "Vita Homeri" looks like. This is page 97. This page is representative of how the text is laid out. There are italicized sections and marginal notes that are also printed.

There is a second book within this codex. This is the second title page.

Second Title Page appears on page 161 (not numbered).

DM XXXIX – 1539 (added and printed two years later than previous book).

This is a sample page of what the main body of the second book within this codex looks like. It is the Odyssey using both Greek and Latin text.

Waste paper begins again using scrap paper this time from Ovid's Third Book (Liber III).

Final waste paper used also in handwritten cursive (black ink) and the appearance of the back cover.