Metamorphoses Ovidii
Subtitle: argvmentis quidem soluta oratione, enarrationibus autem & allegoriis elegiaco versu accuratissimè expositae, summaq[ue] diligentia ac studio illustratae
By: per M. Ioan. Sprengivm Avgustan ; vnà cum artificiosis picturis praecipuas historias aptè repraesentantibus
Contributors: Spreng, Johannes, 1524-1601; Salomon, Bernard, approximately 1506-approximately 1561
Publisher: Apud Hieronymum de Marnef, & viduam Gulielmi Cauellat ...
Published: 1583
Place of publication: Parisiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Classical Mythology; Mythology; Metamorphosis; Poetry
Other titles: Metamorphoses Ovidii, argumentis quidem soluta oratione ...
Work titles: Metamorphoses
Notes: Follows the ed. of 1570. Text first published Frankfurt, 1563; see Renouard, 265. Spreng's dedication to Rudolf and Ernest, Archdukes of Austria and sons of Emperor Maximilian II, retains the date of 22 Feb. 1563. Each metamorphosis occupies one leaf, with woodcut ill. and prose argument on recto and verse "enarratio" and "allegoria" (moral) on the verso.

Jérôme de Marnef's device on t.p. With the exception of the ill. on leaves 46 and 47, the woodcuts are the same as those of the 1570 ed., which probably repeated those of the Métamorphose figurée of l566 (no surviving copies). These in turn were copied from the ill. after Bernard Saloman's designs for Jean de Tournes' Lyons ed. of 1557; see Renouard 230, 265, 419. Initials, head and tail pieces.

Signatures: A-2A⁸.

Includes index.

Renouard, P. Imprimeurs, fasc. 3, 419

The three final blanks are wanting in Library's copy.

Binding: old limp vellum. Author and title written at head of spine over older inscription.

Inscription in pencil on front free endpaper verso: 8-9-56 / Deschamp / Cour du Commerce.