Bod-Inc: O-079
Ovidius Naso, Publius
Metamorphoses [Italian] Ovidio Methamorphoseos vulgare (trans. and comm. Giovanni Bonsignori).
Analysis of Content
[*1r] [Title-page.]
[*1v] [Bonsignori, Giovanni]: ‘Proemium'. Incipit: ‘[G]lorioso e excelso patre eterno idio dacui ogni gracia e dono procede . . .’
[*1v] ‘Tauola'.
a1r Ovidius [Naso, Publius]: Metamorphoses [Italian. Translated by Giovanni Bonsignori.] ‘Ovidio Methamorphoseos vulgare'. Giovanni Bonsignori, Ovidio Metamorphoseos Vulgare, ed. E. Ardissino (Bologna, 2001).
a2r [Bonsignori, Giovanni: Allegorical commentary.] ‘Alegoria'. Incipit: ‘La prima allegoria del primo libro i de chaos doueno sapere in quatro elementi . . .’ On the commentary see B. Guthmüller, Ovidio Metamorphoseos vulgare (Boppard am Rhein, 1981), 56-135; see also Stefano Pittaluga, ‘Lettori umanistici di Ovidio', in La Tradition vive. Mélanges d'histoire des textes en l'honneur de Louis Holtz, ed. Pierre Lardet, Bibliologia, 20 (Turnhout, 2003), 335-47, at 337. Allegories follow many chapters in each book.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Johannes Rubeus, Vercellensis, for Lucantonio Giunta, 10 Apr. 1497. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [*4] a–r8 s6.
Illustrations: Woodcuts: see Essling; for the woodcut border on a1r see also BMC.
References
ISTC: io00185000
Hain: HCR 12166;
Goff: Goff O‑185;
BMC: BMC V 419;
Proctor: Pr 5144;
Others: BSB‑Ink O‑141; CIBN O‑125; Essling 223; Sander 5330; Sheppard 4130. Microfiche: Unit 2: Classics in Translation.
LCN: 14442071
Copies
Copy number: O-079(1)
The outer margins of c1 and c8 have been repaired.
Binding: Seventeenth-century(?) Italian parchment; edges dyed blue.
Size: 302 × 211 × 31 mm.
Size of leaf: 295 × 202 mm.
Provenance: Shelfmark ‘C.4.4' on the front pastedown. Earlier book-plate below that of Douce, the details of which are not visible. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 246.
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