Accession number
PML 614
Creator
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
Object title
Ovidius de arte amandi et de remedio amoris cum comento.
Published
Impressit Lugduni : Joa[n]nes Vingel, Anno salutis .M.cccc.xcv [1495].
Description
lxxiiii leaves ; 26 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r, followed by Vingle's printer's mark.
Imprint from colophon, leaf k2v: Enarrationes i[n] ovidiu[m] de Arte ama[n]di: [et] de Remedio amoris dilige[n]ter: [et] accurate co[m]positas a Bartholomeo Merula ma[n]tuano Impressit Lugduni Joa[n]nes vingel Anno salutis .M.cccc.xcv.
The Grenoble copy reproduced by Pellechet (8703c) shows a variant in the colophon: Luduni Joannes, against Lugduni Joānes (BMC).
Printed in Vingle's types 1:81G and 2:69G.
Signatures: a-i⁸ k⁴: 76 leaves, leaves k3-4 blank.
Paper format: Median quarto.
Commentary by Bartholomaeus Merula.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25 x 17 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: k3-4 (blanks).
Imprint from colophon, leaf k2v: Enarrationes i[n] ovidiu[m] de Arte ama[n]di: [et] de Remedio amoris dilige[n]ter: [et] accurate co[m]positas a Bartholomeo Merula ma[n]tuano Impressit Lugduni Joa[n]nes vingel Anno salutis .M.cccc.xcv.
The Grenoble copy reproduced by Pellechet (8703c) shows a variant in the colophon: Luduni Joannes, against Lugduni Joānes (BMC).
Printed in Vingle's types 1:81G and 2:69G.
Signatures: a-i⁸ k⁴: 76 leaves, leaves k3-4 blank.
Paper format: Median quarto.
Commentary by Bartholomaeus Merula.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25 x 17 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: k3-4 (blanks).
Binding
19th-century French 1/2 brown goatskin, with mottled paper sides, over paper boards (26 x 18 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Canape-Belz. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt top edge.
Variant title
Title in ISTC: De arte amandi et De remedio amoris
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Extensive contemporary marginal and interlinear notations, quite faded from paper being washed. Archway drawing added around printer's mark, in same ink as Galhardo inscription and marginal notations.
Provenance
Galhard, contemporary inscription: "I[s]ta est de galhardo" (leaf a1r), in same hand as drawing and marginal annotations; unidentified inscription: "Ex Lib. Kon(?)" written under printer's mark, 16th/17th century (leaf a1r); unidentified English catalogue sale lot (front endleaf verso); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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