P. Ouidij Metamorphosin / cu[mque] luculentissimis Raphaelis Regij enarrationibus: quibus plurima ascripta sunt: que in exemplaribus antea impressis non inueniuntur. Que sint rogas: inter legendum facile tibi occurrent.

Accession number: 
PML 129498
Author: 
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
Published: 
Venetiis : Georgius de Rusconibus, 2 May 1509.
Description: 
[8], CLXIX, [1] leaves : ill. ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Notes: 

At head of title: Accipe studiose lector.
Imprint information taken from colophon.
Prefatory letter of Regio dated: Venetiis Nonis Septembris .M.cccc.lxxxxiii.
Indexes on leaves [4]-[8] at front.
Leaves XXXVI and XXXVII misnumbered as XX and XXXVI; leaf CLXI unnumbered.
Title in red and black. Initials (some historiated)
Rusconibus' St. George device on t.p. (Kristeller 272), signed: F.V. (possibly Florio Vavassore). His orb & cross device below colophon (Kristeller 270)
Illustrations consist of 59 woodcuts (one repeated), which first appeared in the 1497 Rosso-Giunta and 1505 F. Mazali editions of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Artists are unknown. Many cuts signed: i.a.; others signed: i.o.g., N. (backwards), and L. Cf. Essling, V.M. Études sur l'art de la gravure sur bois à Venise, pt. 1, v. 1, no. 228. Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent., no. 332.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Presentation inscription on title-page effaced; extensively annotated in an early hand.

Provenance: 
With the bookplates of Georg Kloss and Edward Burne-Jones, an ownership inscription by Burne-Jones dated 1884, and the library stamp of Hampstead Public Libraries.
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