Copy number: O-038(1)

Part I and part II, gatherings [²a–d D–K] only, consisting of the Metamorphoses, Amores, and Fasti.

Wanting [b1-2], the text being supplied in manuscript; wanting also the blank leaves [s8], and [²a1].

Leaf [K8] has been cut out and mounted.

Binding: Late eighteenth-century gold-tooled crushed red morocco with gilt-edged leaves and marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; bound for the Library by C. Kalthoeber (label on the verso of the front endleaf).

Size: 338 × 243 × 55 mm.

Size of leaf: 325 × 214 mm.

On [a8v –a9v] are notes written in Italian in a fifteenth-century humanist hand. Occasional early marginal annotations, including comments on the text, also some underlining in the text in red ink. Irregular manuscript foliation: 3-100, the rest missing, presumably cropped.

Provenance: Nicolaus Heinsius (1620-1681); sale (Leiden, 1682/3), II, p. 68, no. 96 (as identified by David Rogers), marked down in the Bodleian's annotated copy of the sale catalogue for [Fl.?]0. 12; noted by W. M. Lindsay, ‘A List of Editions of the Classics in the Bodleian with Marginalia', fol. 24, with a note that it was no. 60 of ‘Poetae in fol.' in Heinsius's library. Edward Bernard (1638-1697); Wanley's list, perhaps p. 6, no. 515, with the date given as 1472. Among the books purchased in 1697 from Bernard's widow, with copy 2.

Former Bodleian shelfmark: M 3.16 Art [Fysher II p. 255, col. 1 (Metamorphoses), p. 255, col. 2 (Amores), p. 256, col. 1 (Fasti)].

SHELFMARK: Auct. L 2.19.

Copy number: O-038(2)

Leaf [C8] repaired. The entries in Fysher, Catalogus, suggest that this copy and copy 3 were, in the 1730s, bound up together as one item (D 7.19 Art). The present arrangement was clearly introduced when Kalthoeber rebound copy 1, and it was presumably then decided to have copy 2 rebound in the same style and with a binding of the same size, and, at the same time, to remove the miscellaneous fragments (now copy 3), thereby 'creating' a complete copy of this edition of Ovidius, Opera, the two volumes of which were then given new contiguous shelfmarks as Auct. L 2.19 and L 2.20; the fragments were then bound separately as copy 3. Misbound in the following order: [ . . . z9, B2-7, z10, A1-10, B1.8, C1-8].

Binding: Late eighteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco with gilt-edged leaves marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; bound for the Library by C. Kalthoeber.

Size: 336 × 242 × 42 mm.

Size of leaf: 325 × 214 mm.

Early marginal and interlinear annotatations, including corrections to the text, pointing hands, the same as those in copy 3, and ‘nota' marks.

Two- to six-line epigraphic initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Running headings and book numbers are supplied in black ink in the same hand which supplied them in copy 3.

Provenance: Nicolaus Heinsius (1620-1681); Heinsius wrote ‘Contuli NH' next to the heading of the ‘Consolatio ad Liviam' ([²k2r]); sale (Leiden, 1682/3), II, p. 68, no. 92 (as identified by David Rogers), marked down in the Bodleian's annotated copy of the sale catalogue for [Fl.?]0. 12; see the manuscript addition regarding this item, made to the slip for item 1 in Lindsay, ‘List of Editions', fol. 24. Edward Bernard (1638-1697); purchased at the Heinsius sale; Wanley's list, perhaps p. 6, no. 514. Among the books purchased in 1697 from Bernard's widow, with copy 1.

Former Bodleian shelfmark: D 7.19 Art [Fysher II p. 255, col. 2 (Heroides, Amores, De arte amandi, Remedia amoris), p. 256, col. 1 (Tristia, De Ponto, Ibis)].

SHELFMARK: Auct. L 2.20.

Copy number: O-038(3)

Fragment of Amores: [b1,10,2-8], [a10], [b9], and gatherings [c-d] only, bound in that order.

Binding: Late eighteenth-century half red morocco with marbled paper boards.

Size: 320 × 226 × 13 mm.

Size of leaf: 315 × 210 mm.

Occasional marginal annotations, including ‘nota' marks, and pointing hands. Irregular manuscript foliation (roman numerals) is supplied in black ink. On [a10r-v] are three tables written in black ink in the same sixteenth-century hand. '378 30^d' in black ink in the lower margin of [c1r]: David Rogers suggested in a miscellaneous note that this and a similar note in Auct. L 2.19 (O-038(1), above) may be 'serial (purchase?) nos.'

Two- and six-line epigraphic initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; some paragraph marks are also supplied in black ink. Running headings and book numbers are supplied in black ink in a seventeenth-century(?) hand.

Provenance: Nicolaus Heinsius (1620-1681). Edward Bernard (1638-1697); purchased at the Heinsius sale. Among the books purchased in 1697 from Bernard's widow; see above.

Former Bodleian shelfmark: D 7.19 Art [Fysher II p. 255, col. 2 (Heroides, Amores, De arte amandi, Remedia amoris), p. 256, col. 1 (Tristia, De Ponto, Ibis)].

SHELFMARK: Auct. L 2.21.