[Opera]
Ovid,43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Corallus, Stephanus,printer.StEdNL
Oxford, Robert Harley,Earl of,1661-1724,former owner.StEdNL
Oxford, Edward Harley,Earl of,1689-1741,former owner.StEdNL
Oxford, Henrietta Cavendish Holles Harley,Countess of,1694-1755,former owner.StEdNL
Osborne, Thomas,-1767,bookseller.StEdNL
Paterson, Henry James,former owner.StEdNL
Impressum Parmae : Ductu & i[m]pensis mei Stephani Coralli Lugdunensis,
M.cccc.l.xxvii. die primo Iullii. [1 July 1477]
BM 15th cent.,
Goff
ISTC
Imprint from colophon to volume 1.
Colophon on Y7v of volume 1 reads: Impressum Parmae ductu & i[m]pensis mei stephani coralli lugdunensis. M.cccc.l.xxvii. die primo Iullii.
Signatures: volume 1: [*]⁸ A-R⁸ S¹⁰ T⁸ V¹⁰ X-Y⁸ (leaf Y8 blank, leaf [*1] possibly blank, leaves G3-G4 signed F.iii.-F.iiii.); volume 2: aa-ff⁸ gg⁶ ²gg⁸ hh-nn⁸ oo⁶ pp-rr⁸ (leaf aa1r blank, leaf gg6 blank); volume 3: A-B¹⁰ C-T⁸ V¹⁰ (leaves A1 and V10 blank, leaves A2-A5 signed A .i.-A .iiii., leaf B1 unsigned).
Leaves gg6 (first sequence) and A1 (second sequence) are blank.
With occasional marginal annotations including several styles of maniculae.
Heroides; Amores; Ars amandi; De remedio amoris; Ibis; Fasti; Tristia; Epistolae ex Ponto; De pulice; De Philomela; De medicamine faciei; De nuce; Consolatio ad Liviam; Metamorphoses. Also Domitius Calderinus: note on Ovid's exile. Sappho ad Phaonem. Life of Sappho from Suidas and others. Sabinus: Epistolae Ulyssis ad Penelopen and others.
Presumed to be from Thomas Osborne's sale of the Harleian Library, priced £2-2-0 at head of recto of front flyleaf. Catalogue cutting from a later sale pasted to front pastedown. Scored out name on recto of flyleaf preceding leaf 2a2. Pencil price £16:16 on verso of front free endpaper. Part of the Paterson Collection, acquired by the Library in 1988.
18th century 'Harleian' binding of red morocco over wooden boards with gilt tooled centre piece and border on front and back boards, gilt tooled spine with author and contents, gilt turn ins and marbled endpapers.
Latin poetry
Mythology, Classical
Italy Parma.