Bod-Inc: O-071
Ovidius Naso, Publius
Metamorphoses.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] Ovidius Naso, Publius: Metamorphoses. Ov. Met. For the ‘Calphurnius tradition' of the Metamorphoses see Steiner, ‘Source-Editions', 226-7.
[h5r] [Textual colophon.]
[h5r] [Ovidius Naso, Publius: Tristia.] Ov. Tr. 1. 7. 35-40.
Imprint
Imprint: [Rostock: Fratres Domus Horti Viridis ad S. Michaelem, c.1480?]. Folio.
Remarks: As dated by Carl Meltz, ‘Die Drucke der Michaelisbrüder zu Rostock 1476 bis 1530', Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Universität Rostock, 5 (1955/6), 229-43, no. 19.
Collation
Collation: [a–f10.10.8 g10 h6].
Types: Type: 90 G. Capital spaces.
Leaves: 72 leaves, the last blank(?). 2 columns.
Line number: 43 lines ([a1r]).
Type area: Type area: 195 ×154 mm ([a1r]).
Remarks: [a1r]: ‘[L]Iber primus Metamorphoſe- | os. Publij Ouidij Naſonis: Incipit. || [I]N noua fert animus mu | tatas dicere formas | Corpora . . .' [h5r]: COLOPHON: ‘Publij Ouidij Naſonis Meta | morphoſeos Libri QuintiDe | cimi Atque Vltimi. Finis. ||| Orba parēte ſuo quicunqƺ uolumina tangis | . . .' (l. 6) ‘Emendaturus ſi licuiſſet eram.’
References
ISTC: io00182500
Proctor: Pr 2661;
Others: CIBN O‑117; Meltz no. 19; Pellechet MS. 8831 (8696); Sheppard 1919; Steiner, ‘Source-Editions', 222 no. 4b.
LCN: 14442785
Copies
Copy number: O-071(1)
Wanting [a3-10], [b1-2], and the blank(?) leaf [h6].
Leaves [a1-2] mounted.
Binding: Nineteenth-century marbled paper boards; bound for Kloß.
Size: 273 × 213 × 14 mm.
Size of leaf: 195 × 154 mm.
Some early marginal annotations and manuscript signatures.
Six- to sixteen-line initials, paragraph marks, and underlining are supplied in red.
Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; purchased at his sale (1835), lot 2909 for £5. 2. 6; see Books Purchased (1835), 21.
SHELFMARK: Auct. P 5.19.
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