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De tristibus monume[n]ta ...

Accession number
PML 125304
Creator
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
Published
[Lyon] : [J. Frellon], [approximately 1512]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1988-9.
Notes
Description based on imperfect copy: lacks t.p. Title and imprint from Adams.
With commentary by Bartholomaeus Merula.
PML copy missing title page (leaf A1).
Description
[6], CXXXVI leaves ; 20 cm (4to)
Inscriptions/Markings
Drawings and unidentified inscriptions on verso of first flyleaf. Unidentified ciphers inside lower cover. Annotations in Greek and Latin on verso of torn lower flyleaf. Contemporary annotations with manicules throughout.
Provenance
"Hic liber est Claudii di[?] [?] apina[?]d testi [?]us [?]" inscription on first flyleaf. From the library of the Ramey family (16th-cent. France).
Binding
Contemporary blind-tooled leather (sheep?) over paperboards; manuscript waste; evidence of paper spine label; edges colored red; sewing structure visible.
Classification
Department