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Thursday, December 30, 2021

Robinet Testard's illustrations for "Ovide, Heroides ou Epitres" an extension of Ovid's Heroides by Octavien de Saint-Gelais

Robinet Testard lived in France from around 1470 to 1531-ish

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8427253m/f7.item.r=Robinet+Testard.langFR

Ovide, Héroïdes, traduction d'Octavien de Saint-Gelais Ovidius Naso, Publius (0043 av. J.-C.-0017). Auteur du texte

I’m confused … did Ovid only wrote fifteen ? so maybe Octavien de Saint-Gelais added some ?


ah ! 

i am mostly wrong ... he wrote fifteen ... then three pairs were added

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroides


Adding to my confusion, the BNF volume seems to be incomplete … There may be twenty-one letters but there are only nineteen illustrations.  

The illustrations aren't always easy to allocate to the stories because of the variations in spelling over the last 2000 years

... no illustration of Medea ?  No illustration of Sappho at the end.


Penelope writes to Ulysses ...















Phyllis writes to Semophon ...
















Briseis writes to Achilles ...
















Phaedra writes to Hippolytus ... 
















Zenone writes to Paris ...
















Hipsyphile writes to Jason ...
















Dido writes to Aeneas ...
















Hermione ( composing her thoughts before she ) writes to Orestes ...
















Deianira writes to Hercules ...
















Ariadne writes to Theseus ...















Canace writes to Macareus ...
















Laodamia writes to Protosilaus ...
















Hypermnestra writes to Lynceus ...
















Paris writes to Helen ...
















... and Helen writes back to Paris
















Leander sees Hero's candle after sending a message ...
















... and Hero writes back to Leander
















Acontius writes to Cydippe ...
















... and Cydippe writes back to Acontius