P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoses argumentis breuioribus
By: ex Luctatio Grammatico collectis expositae ; una cum viuis singularum transformationum iconibus in aes incisis
Contributors: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.; Borcht, Petrus van der, 1545-1608
Publisher: Ex officina plantiniana, apud viduam, & Ioannem Moretum
Published: 1591
Place of publication: Antverpiae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 361
Subjects: Illustrations; Adaptations
Other titles: Argumenta.; Narrationes fabularum.; Fabularum Ovidii abbreviatio.
Notes: This Argumenta (a.k.a. Narrationes fabularum, and as Fabularum Ovidii abbreviatio) has been attributed to "Luctatius Grammaticus" (Lactantius Placidus, 6th century?) whose name was first associated with the text about the 15th century on the basis of stylistic similarities to his work on Statius. Other attributions include Aelius Donatus and L.C.F. Lactantius, ca. 240-ca. 320.

Dedication dated 1591, privilege dated 15. November 1590, censor's acceptance dated 26. January 1591.

Signatures: A-Z⁸, a⁸ ([a8], blank?, wanting)

Engraved illustrated t.p., Ovid's port. on p. 4; printer's mark on verso of leaf Z5, p. [362].

Contains 178 ill., of which no. 176 is signed: Petrus Vander Borcht invenit et fecit.

Includes index.

LC class. sched. P-PA, 6531

Otis. B. Argumenta of the so-called Lactantius in Harvard studies in classical philology, XLVII, p. 132 ff

Lenz, F.W. Ovid's Metamorphoses, p. [75]

Slater, D.A. Towards a text of the Metamorphoses, p. 38; A-I⁴K³

Library's copy has date in ink on t.p. and on spine: 1600.