| Description | Manuscript volume, 13th-14th century, containing Ovid's Epistolae Heroidum [Heroides]; De arte amatoria; De remedio amatoris; Amores. Some pages bear additions, including verses and comments on the main text, in 13th-16th century hands.
Vellum manuscript in 19th-century binding. Copious interlinear and marginal glosses. Some leaves are palimpsest, probably from manuscripts not much older than the upper script. |
| CustodialHistory | Nineteenth-century bookplate of the (Forbes of Craigievar) Fintray House Library. Part of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century. |