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Metamorphoseon libri xv. : Denuo collatis probatissimæ fidei exemplaribus quam accuratissime emendati.

Accession number
PML 19355
Creator
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
Published
Lugduni : Apud S. Gryphium, 1550.
Credit line
Pierpont Morgan,
Description
453 pages ; 13 cm (8vo)
Notes
On p. 2-17: P. Ovidii Nasonis Vita, ex eius ipsius libris ab Aldo M. R. Collecta. On p. 451-53: Alia Ovidii Nasonis Vita, ciusdemque opera ...
Text printed in italics.
Title-vignette: printer's mark (Silvestre 486).
Binding
16th-century French (Lyon?) gilt-tooled brown calf with strapwork design painted in black, yellow, and white (over red); unidentified, gilt-tooled armorial (front board), author/title gilt-tooled (rear board). Gilt, gauffered, and painted edges. PML 19353
Provenance
Unidentified armorial: lion laying down and looking back up at a star/lion couchant en chef d'une étoile (front board); Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Gruel, 1912.
Classification
Century
Department