Some newly discovered stanzas written by John Milton on engraved scenes illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subtitle: this Milton-Ovid script was written circa 1623; discovered 1921; first printed in Notes and queries, 1922-3, and is now rev. and reprinted in one volume with many additional notes
By: by Hugh C.H. Candy.
Contributors: Candy, Hugh Charles Herbert, 1859-
Publisher: Nisbet
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. quibus accesserunt Vergilij Solis figurae elegantiss, printed at Frankfurt in 1563. The Latin and German quatrains that accompany each plate are reserved for a larger work.