Accession number
PML 306
Creator
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
Object title
Pvblii Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseos liber primvs.
Published
[Venice] : Iacobus Rubeus, M.CCCC.LXXIIII [before December, 1474].
Description
[412] leaves ; 34.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf [2]/2r: PVBLII OVDII NASONIS METAMORPHOSEOS LIBER PRIMVS.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [42]/9v: Huius opera omnia Medea excepta: & triumpho Caesaris: & libello illo pontica lingua composito: quae incuria tempo[rum] perierunt: Iacobus Rubeus natione gallicus honestissimo loco natus ad utilitatem uiue[n]tium nec non & postero[rum] impressit. Nicolao Marcello Duce inclyto Venetiarum. M.CCCC.LXXIIII.
Printed in Rubeus's type 1*:113R.
Collation: [(Metamorphoses) 1-5¹⁰ 6⁸ 7-12¹⁰ 13-14¹²; (Heroides and Ars amandi) 15-16¹⁰ 17-18⁸ 19¹⁰ 20¹² 21⁸ 22⁶; (Amores-De nuce) 23-25¹⁰ 26¹²; (Fasti and Consolatio ad Liviam) 27-31¹⁰ 32⁸ 33⁶; (Trisitia) 34-35¹⁰ 36¹²; (Epistolae ex Ponto-Vita Ovidii) 37-42¹⁰]: 412 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Median folio.
Edited by Johannes Calphurnius.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33.1 x 22.3 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [42]/9v: Huius opera omnia Medea excepta: & triumpho Caesaris: & libello illo pontica lingua composito: quae incuria tempo[rum] perierunt: Iacobus Rubeus natione gallicus honestissimo loco natus ad utilitatem uiue[n]tium nec non & postero[rum] impressit. Nicolao Marcello Duce inclyto Venetiarum. M.CCCC.LXXIIII.
Printed in Rubeus's type 1*:113R.
Collation: [(Metamorphoses) 1-5¹⁰ 6⁸ 7-12¹⁰ 13-14¹²; (Heroides and Ars amandi) 15-16¹⁰ 17-18⁸ 19¹⁰ 20¹² 21⁸ 22⁶; (Amores-De nuce) 23-25¹⁰ 26¹²; (Fasti and Consolatio ad Liviam) 27-31¹⁰ 32⁸ 33⁶; (Trisitia) 34-35¹⁰ 36¹²; (Epistolae ex Ponto-Vita Ovidii) 37-42¹⁰]: 412 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Median folio.
Edited by Johannes Calphurnius.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33.1 x 22.3 cm.
Binding
19th-century English gilt-tooled olive-brown morocco over paper boards (34.5 x 23 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Charles Lewis for Lord Gosford. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Publii Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseos liber primus
Inscriptions/Markings
Contemporary Bruges illuminated initial and border, including a woman holding a distaff and unidentified armorial: azure, bend argent, chevron gules and three flowers (leaf [1]/2r), initials in red and blue (primary initials with penwork decoration), paragraph marks (some with fleur-de-lys decoration), yellow capital strokes, and ruling. Same hand and amorial as in PML 25 and 118. Annotations: Early marginal notations: 1) noting missing lines of text in Heroides VII (leaf [16]/2r) and 2) an alternate reading "in alii codicibus... sum brevis at nomen quod terras impleat omnes, est mihi mensuram nominis ipsa fero" (leaf [19]/7r), and several other textual corrections throughout. Several early alpha-numeric quire signature, mainly trimmed.
Provenance
Unidentified Bruges/Flemish armorial (leaf [1]/2r); Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853), his sale, Evans (London), 23 June 1834, lot 1260* (bound in 3 vols. in red morocco); Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), purchased from Payne & Foss in 1837, armorial binding by Charles Lewis; James Toovey (1814-1893), purchased Gosford's library en bloc in 1878, Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
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