Accession number
PML 48526-28
Creator
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Object title
Opera.
Published
Impressum Parmæ : ductu & i[m]pensis mei stephani coralli lugdunensis, .M.cccc.lxxvii .die primo Iulii [1 July 1477].
Description
[188, 140, 166] leaves ; 31 cm (folio)
Credit line
Purchased in 1957.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf ?Y7v.
Printed in Corallus's type 3:111R.
Signatures: [*]⁸, ?A-?Q⁸ ?R-?V⁸/¹⁰ ?X-?Y⁸; aa-ff⁸ gg⁶, ²gg⁸ hh-nn⁸ oo⁶, pp-rr⁸; A-B¹⁰ C-T⁸ V¹⁰: 494 leaves. Leaves ?Y8, aa1, gg6, A1, and V10 blank. Leaves ?G3-4 missigned ?F3-4.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Typically bound in 3 volumes.
1 column of 39-40 lines. Capital spaces, with guide letters.
For contents, see Bod-inc.
PML copy leaf dimension: 30 x 18.9 cm., trimmed.
PML copy with leaf *7 remounted (from another copy?) and leaf ?G5 remargined.
Imprint from colophon, leaf ?Y7v.
Printed in Corallus's type 3:111R.
Signatures: [*]⁸, ?A-?Q⁸ ?R-?V⁸/¹⁰ ?X-?Y⁸; aa-ff⁸ gg⁶, ²gg⁸ hh-nn⁸ oo⁶, pp-rr⁸; A-B¹⁰ C-T⁸ V¹⁰: 494 leaves. Leaves ?Y8, aa1, gg6, A1, and V10 blank. Leaves ?G3-4 missigned ?F3-4.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Typically bound in 3 volumes.
1 column of 39-40 lines. Capital spaces, with guide letters.
For contents, see Bod-inc.
PML copy leaf dimension: 30 x 18.9 cm., trimmed.
PML copy with leaf *7 remounted (from another copy?) and leaf ?G5 remargined.
Binding
Modern full black goatskin over paper boards (31 x 20), sewn on 5 supports by Zaehnsdorf. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves, decorative endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal and interlinear notations, manicules, and NB marks sporadically throughout all three volumes; more extensive marginal notes in the Amores.
Provenance
Cornelius Botana, of Friuli in Udine, inscription: "Cornelii Bottanei nec no[n] amicoru[m]", 15th century (leaf V9v); unidentified shelf mark, abraded: D 474 (leaves *2r); [perhaps Bernard Quaritch, cat. 135 (Sept. 1893), no. 684;] Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Bernard M. Rosenthal, May 1957.
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