Some newly discovered stanzas written by John Milton on engraved scenes illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses
By: this Milton-Ovid script was written, circa 1623; discovered, 1921; first printed in Notes and queries, 1922-3; and is now revised and reprinted, in one volume, with many additional notes by Hugh C. H. Candy.
Contributors: Candy, Hugh Charles Herbert, 1859-1935, ed.
Publisher: Nisbet & co. ltd.
Published: 1924
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Posthius, Johannes, 1537-1597.
Notes: 166 stanzas, faithfully printed from the manuscript written on blank pages in a copy of Johannes Posthius' "Tetrasticha in Ovidii metamor. Lib XV. qvibus accesserunt Vergilij Solis figurae elegantiss.", printed at Frankfort in 1563. The Latin and German quatrains that accompany each plate are reserved for a larger work.