Title from caption, leaf [2]/2r: PVBLII OVDII NASONIS METAMORPHOSEOS LIBER PRIMVS.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [42]/9v: Huius opera omnia Medea excepta: & triumpho Caesaris: & libello illo pontica lingua composito: quae incuria tempo[rum] perierunt: Iacobus Rubeus natione gallicus honestissimo loco natus ad utilitatem uiue[n]tium nec non & postero[rum] impressit. Nicolao Marcello Duce inclyto Venetiarum. M.CCCC.LXXIIII.
Printed in Rubeus's type 1*:113R.
Collation: [(Metamorphoses) 1-5¹⁰ 6⁸ 7-12¹⁰ 13-14¹²; (Heroides and Ars amandi) 15-16¹⁰ 17-18⁸ 19¹⁰ 20¹² 21⁸ 22⁶; (Amores-De nuce) 23-25¹⁰ 26¹²; (Fasti and Consolatio ad Liviam) 27-31¹⁰ 32⁸ 33⁶; (Trisitia) 34-35¹⁰ 36¹²; (Epistolae ex Ponto-Vita Ovidii) 37-42¹⁰]: 412 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Median folio.
Edited by Johannes Calphurnius.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33.1 x 22.3 cm.
Publii Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseos liber primus
Contemporary Bruges illuminated initial and border, including a woman holding a distaff and unidentified armorial: azure, bend argent, chevron gules and three flowers (leaf [1]/2r), initials in red and blue (primary initials with penwork decoration), paragraph marks (some with fleur-de-lys decoration), yellow capital strokes, and ruling. Same hand and amorial as in PML 25 and 118. Annotations: Early marginal notations: 1) noting missing lines of text in Heroides VII (leaf [16]/2r) and 2) an alternate reading "in alii codicibus... sum brevis at nomen quod terras impleat omnes, est mihi mensuram nominis ipsa fero" (leaf [19]/7r), and several other textual corrections throughout. Several early alpha-numeric quire signature, mainly trimmed.