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HORACE [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]. De Arte Poetica. Epistolarum liber ; and the poem, De Contemptu Mundi , attributed to BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX, in Latin. MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Northern Italy, first quarter of the 14th century] 258 x 176mm, 41 leaves, COMPLETE, collation: 1 10 (-1 blank cancelled), 2-5 8 . 27/30 lines, and 37 lines (last 11 pages), ruled in ink, justification varies considerably between 168 x 100 and 203 x 97mm, written by two scribes in brown ink in a gothic rotunda, capitals touched in red, paragraph marks and headings in red, 16 THREE-LINE INITIALS, alternate red and blue with penwork flourishes, 2 FIVE-LINE DECORATED INITIALS, in red and blue with scrolled penwork decoration. (Very minor worming.) Late 18th-century English calf gilt. PROVENANCE 17th-century inscription on title 'Cavonniae? Venetiarum' (partly crossed out); Sir George Shuckburgh (1751-1804), with his bookplate. TEXT 1. Horace. De arte poetica (ff.1-9). This has been extensively glossed in a contemporary hand, with mostly interlinear glosses. This text is written 27/29 lines to the page. 2. Horace. Epistolarum liber I and II [23 Epistles] (ff. 10-36r). This too has been extensively glossed, mostly in the first half, with very extensive marginal glosses. 27/30 lines. 3. De contemptu mundi. Carmen Paraeneticum ad Rainaldum. A poem commencing 'Cartulla nostra tibi portat rainaldi salutes/Plura videbis ibi si non hec dona refutes ' (ff.36v-41v), 33/35 lines to the page, space for first large initial left blank. Written by another scribe, possibly slightly later. This is the first of a series of three poems with the title De contemptu mundi , variously attributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux and Johannes de Garlandia. It is printed in Migne P.L. 184, 1307ff., with the works of St. Bernard, but is there attributed to Berengarius Scholasticus.