Accession number
PML 15496
Creator
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
Published
Lugduni : Apud Seb Gryphium, 1543.
Description
1 v.
Binding
16th-century Italian (Rome) brown morocco gold tooled with foliate ornaments and horizontal medallion at center with Apollo & Pegasus, attributed by Anthony Hobson to Marcantonio Guillery; Nixon attributed to the Farnese Binder.
Inscriptions/Markings
Verse inscriptions on front and rear endleaves, dated Genoa, 28 Oct. 1791.
Provenance
The Apollo & Pegasus bindings were previously thought to belong to Demetrio Carnevari or Per Luigi Farnese. Giovanni Battista Grimaldi (b. about 1524), binding (see Hobson, Apollo and Pegasus, pp. 49ff); unidentified stamp in blue ink, very faint (rear en
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