Accession number
PML 390
Creator
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
Object title
P. Ovidii Nasonis Sulmonensis Heroidum.
Published
Mediolani : Christofforus Ratisponensis impresit, M.cccclxxxvi. die vero .xxi. Mensis Novembris [21 November 1486].
Description
[64] leaves ; 25 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf a1r: P. Ovidii Nasonis Sulmonensis Heroidum.
Imprint from colophon, leaf h8r: Librum hunc herodium. P.O. nasonis: cum co[n]solatoris eiusdem ad liviam augustam de morte Brnsineronis [sic] Et cu[m] libro de philome[n]a. Mediolani. Christofforus. Ratispone[n]sis. Impresit. M.cccclxxxvi. die vero .xxi. Mensis Novembris. Deo Graitas Amen. [Valdarfer's device]
Printed in Valdarfer's type 8:108G.
PML copy listed under Valdarfer's Third Press in Checklist.
Signatures: a-h⁸: 64 leaves.
Paper format: Median quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 23.7 x 19 cm.
PML copy leaf a8 misbound after a1.
Imprint from colophon, leaf h8r: Librum hunc herodium. P.O. nasonis: cum co[n]solatoris eiusdem ad liviam augustam de morte Brnsineronis [sic] Et cu[m] libro de philome[n]a. Mediolani. Christofforus. Ratispone[n]sis. Impresit. M.cccclxxxvi. die vero .xxi. Mensis Novembris. Deo Graitas Amen. [Valdarfer's device]
Printed in Valdarfer's type 8:108G.
PML copy listed under Valdarfer's Third Press in Checklist.
Signatures: a-h⁸: 64 leaves.
Paper format: Median quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 23.7 x 19 cm.
PML copy leaf a8 misbound after a1.
Binding
18th-century English black morocco over paper boards (25 x 17 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands.
Variant title
Epistolae Heroides
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication, 1 red initial (leaf a1r). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Simon di Modoetia [of Monza], inscription: "Sancta Marie coronate [??] ad usum fratris Simonis di modoetia," 15th century (leaf a1r, visible under UV); Andrea de Ripa, signature: "Andree de ripa," 15th century (leaf h8r); Charles Spencer (1674-1722), 3rd Earl of Sunderland, shelf mark: C6: 31 (front endleaf 1 verso), through inheritance to: John Winston Spencer-Churchill (1822-1883), 7th Duke of Marlborough; Bibliotheca Sunderlandia sale, Puttick & Simpson, part IV, 6 Nov. 1882, lot 9166, purchased by Quaritch: Sunderland Library Blenheim Palace bookplate, purchased Nov. 1882 (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto) and bibliographical notes: No. 210, 15/5/96 and price code: [erased] (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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