Fastorum Lib. VI : Quibus Cl. Ptolemai Inerrantium stellarum significationes, guod cum Fastorum argumento maximè congruere viderentur, in gratiam studiosorum praefiximus : Tristivm Lib. V. De Ponto Lib. III ...

Accession number: 
PML 19354
Author: 
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
Published: 
Lvgdvni : Apud Seb. Gryphius, 1550.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description: 
431 pages ; 13 cm (8vo)
Notes: 

Text printed in italics.
Title-vignette: printer's mark (Silvestre 485).

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 19353-55 in same binding.
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.
Catalog Link: 
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Classification: 
Binding Collection
Genres: 
Gauffered edges (Binding)
Armorial bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books