[Metamorphoses]
Publisher: Printer of Nebrissensis, 'Introductiones'
Published: 1488
Place of publication: Salamanca
Language: lat
Number of pages: 60
Other titles: Fragments of printed books
Work titles: Metamorphoses
Notes: Title and imprint from ISTC.

This ed. survives only in fragmentary bifolia at the Houghton Library (leaves c1.10) and at the Bodleian Library (leaves b4.7, c1.10). Both groups of fragments are binding waste, but extracted from different bindings.

Text in single column of 28 lines.

This ed. was apparently quired in 10's and, if complete, would have extended to ca. 215 leaves.

Proctor, 9562

Haebler, K. Bib. ibérica, 506

Vindel, F. Manual, II, 29, no. 19

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), io00182700

Purchase; Sotheby's; October 1963; unacc.; S.A.E. Morse fd.; bought with 63-1462-1479.

From the library of the Viscounts Clifden at Lanhydrock House, Cornwall.  For a history of the library at Lanhydrock and the compilation of this album, see: Mark Purcell, "The Library at Lanhydrock," The Book Collector, v. 54, no. 2 (2005), p. 195-227.

Imperfect: fragmentary bifolium c1.10 only, containing Book II, lines 336-391, 839-875, and Book III, lines 1-17.

Tipped onto fol. 55 of an album of fragments removed from bindings (presumably Oxford bindings of the late 16th-early 17th centuries) of books in the library formed by Hannibal Gamon.

Bound in late 19th-century half tan sheep and brown cloth.