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LITERATURE

Ancient / Ovid / Heroides and Double Heroides / Cycles / Oxford, Balliol College, MS 383
Ancient / Ovid / Heroides and Double Heroides / XV. Sappho to Phaon

PORTRAITS

Professions and trades / Authors and philosophers / Classical / Sappho

SOCIAL LIFE

Music / Musical instruments / String / Plucked / Lute
Music / Musical instruments / String / Plucked / Lyre

Further details

The letter from Sappho to Phaon in this manuscript is the last letter of the collection, and not the fifteenth, hence the numbering of the following letters, and indeed of this one, is incorrect.

Artist or creator

French

Date

16th century (early)

Location

Oxford, Balliol College, 383

Book, text or document (source of image)

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso). Heroides (Octavien de Saint-Gelais translation). Folio: 167v.

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Balliol College

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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