Pvblii Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseos iber primvs..
Ovid,43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Calfurnio, Giovanni,-1503.
Le Rouge, Jacques,active 1473-1490,printer.
Nicholas,of Chartres,active 1474,former owner.StEdNL
Dandolo, Aloysius,former owner.StEdNL
Douglas, George,Lord,1667 or 1668-1693,former owner.StEdNL
[Venice] : Iacobus Rubeus ... impressit. ...,
M. CCCC. LXXIIII. [1474]
Signatures: [a-e¹° f⁸ g-m¹° n-o¹² p-q¹° r-s⁸ t¹° u¹² x⁸ y⁶ z¹° A-B¹° C¹² D-H¹° I⁸ K⁶ L-M¹° N¹² O-T¹°].
The first leaf is blank.
Title from caption at head of [a2r] (leaf [2r]).
Name of printer and date of printing from colophon on [T9v] (leaf [411v]); printed [before Dec.] 1474 -- ISTC; place of printing supplied from ISTC.
Edited by Giovanni Calfurnio -- see verses addressed to the reader on [T10r] (leaf [412r]).
For a breakdown of contents, see Bodleian 15th cent., O-039.
Initial spaces.
Recto of first leaf with illuminated inital and painted border. Illuminated initials throughout.
Vellum flyleaf has inscription: Omnia ovidii op[er]a. Verso of the final leaf of text has a note recording the signs of the zodiac and the corresponding parts of the Christian calendar.
ISTC
Goff
GW
BM 15th cent.,
Bodleian 15th cent.,
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Hillyard, B. Acquisitions of Incunables by the Advocates Library before 1808,
Two unidentified arms painted into border on recto of first leaf. Ink inscriptions on recto of vellum flyleaf: Nicolai chartrini quond[am] D. Jacobi Liber Anno in Carnuti verbi MccccLxxiiij; Iste liber est aloisij [and] Aloysij danduli ac suorum. Verso of vellum flyleaf has unidentified painted arms. Verso of final leaf of text has the initials A and D either side of a drawing of a shield divided horizontally and coloured or in base and left uncoloured in chief but it is possibly unfinished. Acquired by the Advocates Library in 1695 as part of the Lord George Douglas bequest. Ink inscription on verso of vellum flyleaf: Lib: D: D: Georgii Douglas Bibliothecae Facultatis Juridicae Edinburgi Donat:.
18th-century Library binding of leather over boards with rolled board edges. Vellum flyleaf preceding first leaf of text.
Italy Venice.