P. Ovidii Nasonis Svlmonensis Metamorphoseos, liber primvs [-quindecimus].

Accession number: 
PML 46607
Author: 
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Published: 
Impressum Parmæ : Opera et impensa Andreæ Portiliæ, M.CCCCLXXX. idibus Maiis [15 May 1480]
Description: 
[188] leaves ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1955.
Notes: 

Title from incipit, leaf b1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf &5v: Impressum Parmae Opera Et Impensa Andreae Portiliae .M. CCCCLXXX. Idibus Maiis Ioanne Galeazio Maria Mediolani Illustrissimo Duce Regna[n]te Foeliciter.
Printed in Portilia's type 2:109R.
Signatures: a⁶ b-q⁸ r¹⁰ s-y⁸ z⁶ &⁶: 188 leaves, leaves a1 and &6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
1 column of 40 lines. Initial spaces, with guide letters.
Incipit of tabula, leaf a2r: Tabula fabularum Ovidii Metamorphoseos.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29 x 20 cm.

Binding: 
19th-century half goatskin (?), with decorated paper sides.
Variant Title: 

P. Ovidii Nasonis Sulmonensis Metamorphoseos liber primus

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary German rubrication (rather sloppy/heavy-handed), red lombards, paragraph marks, and capital strokes, by Sebald Pirckheimer. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations and drawings/doodles throughout, in several hands, including Sebald and Willibald Pirckheimer and perhaps one or two others. Contemporary inscription from Ovid: "Bix sex millenos v[er]s[us] i[n] codice scriptos/ Sed t[er]q[ui]nque minus [con]tinet ovidius" (leaf &5v).

Provenance: 
Sebald Pirckheimer (1475-1488?), rubrication inscription: "Rubrica p[er] me Sebaldum pirkeiym[er] anno mcccclxxx & octo epif. [6 Jan. 1488/9]" (leaf &5v, on the inscription, see Bühler), annotations and marginal drawings, through inheritance to his brother: Willibald Pirckheimer (1470-1530), marginal annotations, through inheritance to Hans Hieronymus Imhoff (d. 1663); Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel (1586-1646), purchased Pirckheimer's library from Imhoff in 1636, inherited by his grandson: Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk (1628-1684), Bibliothecae Norfolcianae, no. 2924, gave library to the Royal Society, 1667; Royal Society, armorial bookplate, with shelf marks: XXVII: 415 and XXVI/125 (front pastedown) and stamps (leaves a2r and &5v), sold to Bernard Quaritch, 1873; Bernard Quaritch, General Catalogue (1874), no. 18109; Giuseppe Martini, collation note (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Jan. 1955.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Half bindings (Binding)
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Decorated papers (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books