Title derived from colophon (leaf [3]v).
Imprint from colophon, leaf [1]/3v: Huius opera omnia medea excepta & triumpho Cesaris: & libello illo pontica lingua co[m]posito: que in curia tempor[um] perierunt: Balthesar Azoguidus Civis Bononiensis honestissimo loco natus primus in sua civitate artis impressorie i[n]ventor & su[m]ma necessitudine mihi co[n]iunctissimus ad utilitate[m] humani generis impressit. MCCCCLXXI
Printed in Azoguidus's type 1:113R.
Collation: [1⁴; 2-5¹⁰ 6⁸; 7-8¹⁰ 9¹²; 10-12¹⁰ 13¹²; 14-28¹⁰ 29⁶; 30¹⁰; 31-33¹⁰ 34⁸ 35-36¹⁰ 37⁶; 38-46¹⁰ 47⁴]: 450 leaves, leaves [6]/8, [13]/12, and [30]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Edited by Franciscus Puteolanus.
The first book printed in Bologna.
PML 22117-18 leaf dimensions: 31.5/32.6 x 21.4 cm., trimmed.
PML 44492 leaf dimensions: 31.4 x 21.4 cm., trimmed.
PML copy bound, vol. I (PML 44492): Amores, Ars amandi, Remedia amoris, Heroides, Tristia, Epistolae ex Ponto, De pulice, De Philomena, De medicamine faciei, De nuce; vol. II (PML 22117): prefatory leaves, Metamorphoses; vol. III (PML 22118): Fasti, Tristia, Epistolae ex Ponto, De pulice, De Philomena, De medicamine faciei, De nuce.
PML copy collated according to BMC and order of contents in ISTC.
PML 22117 missing 1 leaf: [14]/1, replaced in facsimile; quire [1] fragmentary and paritally in facsimile, bound at beginning of PML 22117. PML 22118 missing 12 leaves: quire [30]/1-10 (Ibis) and leaves [42]/2 and [47]/4. PML 44492 missing 1 leaf: [13]/12 (blank).
Text begins: Hanc tua Penelope lento tibi mittit ulixes
PML 22117: Hand decoration: Rubricated, alternating red and blue initials. Annotations: Contemporary marginal and interlinear notations throughout. Marginal pen trials and doodles in pencil, ink, and crayon. Modern textual notes signed "C." (Charles Lewis?). PML 22118: Hand decoration: Italian, Illuminated white vine initial (leaf [31]/1r), alternating red and blue initials. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notes (leaf [31]/1 only, washed), manicules and NB marks throughout. Modern textual notes signed "C." (Charles Lewis?).
PML 44492: Hand decoration: Rubrication predominantly unrealized, a few initials added in brown ink. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations and NB marks sporadically throughout. German pencil inscriptions identifying each textual section.