Epistole Ovidii cum duobus commentis.
Ovid,43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Pinzi, Filippo,active 1490-1530,printer.
Hamilton, Gavin,1703-1767,bookseller.StEdNL
[Venice] : Hoc opus Philippus Pincius Mantuanus accuratissime diligenter[que] imprimere adnixus est: id[que] deo maxime bene luuante effecit.,
Venetiis anno. M.cccclxxxxi. quarto nonas februarii. [2 Feb. 1491]
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: a-r⁶.
With a final blank leaf.
Printed with text surrounded with commentary on three sides, 60 lines of commentary per page.
With woodcut printer's device on verso of r5.
Initials and paragraph marks supplied in red or blue.
Bound with Inc.179.
Hain
Hunt
Goff
GW
ISTC
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Hillyard, B. Acquisitions of Incunables by the Advocates Library before 1808,
Advocates Library ex libris dated 1738 cut from 18th-century flyleaf and pasted to front free endpaper. Bought by the Advocates Library at Gavin Hamilton's auction 12 January 1738 (folio no. 269) for £0-5-2.
19th-century half leather with marbled paper over boards, spine has five raised bands with gilt Advocates Library stamp and two leather title labels.
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Italy Venice.