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Description: ff. 1-43; ff. 43v-44 blank. [Ovid] Ars amatoria. Incipit: Si quis in hoc artem populo non novit amandi. Explicit: Inscribant foliis [sic] Naso magister erat. Finis. Latin. E. J. Kenney, ed., P. Ovidii Nasonis Amores, Medicamina Faciei Femineae, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris (Oxford 1961) 113-200. ff. 45-59v; f. 60r-v blank. [Ovid] De remedio amoris. Incipit: Legerat huius amor titulum nomenque libelli. Explicit: Carmine sanati foemina virque meo. Finis. Latin. Kenney (1961) 205-37. ff. 61-133. [Ovid] Heroides. Incipit: Hanc tua Penelope lento tibi mittit Ulyxes. Explicit: Ut mihi Leucadie fata petantur aquae. Latin. H. Dorrie, ed., Epistulae Heroidum (Berlin 1971) 47-286, 314-29; the letter of Sappho to Phaonis is at the end, and the letters of Oenone and Canace are preceded by the introductory couplets: f. 71v,"Nympha suo Paridi quamvis suus esse recusat/ Mittit ab Idaeis verba legenda iugis," and f. 89"[A]eolis Aeolide quam non habet ipsa salutem/ Mittit et armata verba notata manu.". f. 133r-v. Incipit: Sapho Simonis ut alii putant Eumeni, ut alii Erigii ut alii ecripti. Explicit: ex leucade se deiecit. Latin. From Suidas, Lexicon (Basle [1564]), col. 873, lines 1-23, with some variation. The note is followed by 4 couplets relating to Sappho from Antipater Sydonius, Ausonius, Papinius and Horace. ff. 133v-140; f. 140v blank. [Aulus Sabinus] Responses to the Heroides. Incipit: Pertulit ad miserum tandem tua casus Ulyxem. Explicit: Sive tuos vigiles pellere sine meos. Latin. Responses to 3 letters of the Heroides attributed to Sabinus (Ulysses to Penelope; Demophoon to Phyllis; Paris to Oenone); see Publii Ovidii Nasonis quae extant Opera Omnia, ed. N. E. Lemaire (Paris 1820) 1:17-25, 43-49, 115-21. On f. 133v, biographical note on Aulus Sabinus (A[ulus] Sabi[n]us eques Romanus celeberrimus vatesque Nasonis temporibus floruit . . . ) and 2 quotations from Ovid (Amores, 2, 18, vv. 27-34, Quam cito de toto tediit celer orbe sabinus . . . Dat votum phoebo Lesbis amica Lyrae; and Ex Ponto, 4, 16, vv. 13-16, Et qui penelope rescribere iussit Ulyxem . . . Deseruit celeri morte sabinus opus). ff. 141-186v. [Ovid] Amores. Incipit: Qui modo nasonis fueramus quinque libelli. Explicit: Post mea mansurum fata superstes opus. Latin. Kenney (1961) 5-100. f. 187r-v. [Pseudo Ovid] Pulex. Incipit: Parve pulex et amara Lues inimica puellis. Explicit: Et iam nil mallet quam sibi me socium. Latin. F. W. Lenz,"De Pulice Libellus," Maia 14 (1962) 299-333. ff. 187v-189. [Pseudo Ovid] Philomena. Incipit: Dulcis amica veni noctis solatia prestans. Explicit: Seu semper sileant sive sonare queant. Latin. For a critical edition of the text and a list of manuscripts, including HM 1038, see P. Klopsch,"Carmen de philomela," Literatur und Sprache im Europäischen Mittelalter: Festschrift für Karl Langosch zum 70 Geburtstag, ed. A. önnerfors, J. Rathofer, F. Wagner (Darmstadt 1973) 173-94. ff. 189-191. [Ovid] Medicamina faciei. Incipit: Discite que faciem commendat [sic] cura puellae. Explicit: Contereret teneris illineretque genis. Latin. Kenney (1961) 103-07. ff. 191-194. [Pseudo Ovid] Nux. Incipit: Nux ego iuncta viae cum sim sine crimine vitae. Explicit: Parcite sic coeptum perficiatis iter. Latin. F. W. Lenz, ed., P. Ovidii Nasonis Halieutica Fragmenta, Nux, Incerti Consolatio ad Liviam. Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum Paravianum (Turin 1956) 127-56. ff. 194-203; f. 203v blank. [Pseudo Ovid] Ad Liviam Augustam Consolatio. Incipit: Visa diu felix mater modo dicta neronum. Explicit: Livia funestam dedecet esse domum. Finis. Latin. Lenz (1956) 177-210.

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