[Opera] (v.3)
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Type of record: Book
Title: [Opera] (v.3)
Classmark: BC Incunabula OVI
Publisher: Ductu & i[m]pensis mei stephani coralli lugdunensis; Stephanus Corallus
Publication city: Impressum Parmæ [Parma]
Date(s): M.cccc.l.xxvii. die primo Iullii. [1 July 1477]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 3 volumes
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/yy6pk72y
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/163537
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008723399705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: volume 1: [*]⁸ A-R⁸ S¹⁰ T⁸ V¹⁰ X-Y⁸ (leaf Y8 blank, leaf [*1] possibly blank, leaves G3-G4 signed F.iii.-F.iiii.); volume 2: aa-ff⁸ gg⁶ ²gg⁸ hh-nn⁸ oo⁶ pp-rr⁸ (leaf aa1r blank, leaf gg6 blank); volume 3: A-B¹⁰ C-T⁸ V¹⁰ (leaves A1 and V10 blank, leaves A2-A5 signed A.i.-A .iiii., leaf B1 unsigned).
Imprint from colophon to volume 1.
Colophon on Y7v of volume 1 reads: Impressum Parmæ ductu & i[m]pensis mei stephani coralli lugdunensis.M.cccc.l.xxvii. die primo Iullii.
Contents: Heroides; Amores; Ars amandi; De remedio amoris; Ibis; Fasti; Tristia; Epistolae ex Ponto; De pulice; De Philomela; De medicamine faciei; De nuce; Consolatio ad Liviam; Metamorphoses. Also Domitius Calderinus: note on Ovid's exile. Sappho ad Phaonem. Life of Sappho from Suidas and others. Sabinus: Epistolae Ulyssis ad Penelopen and others.
Printed with 39 or 40 long lines to a full page.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
Indexed in: ISTC no. io00129000.
Indexed in: Goff O129; HC(+Add) 12140; Pell Ms 8823 (8687); CIBN O-81; Parguez 767; IGI 7044; IDL 3479; Sajó-Soltész 2487; Ohly-Sack 2180; Madsen 2979; Oates 2571; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 1283; Sheppard 5655-5656, 5657, 5658; Pr 6844; BMC VII 940.
Features
Volume 1 contains occasional marginal annotations in black ink manuscript.
Volumes 2 and 3 contain copious marginal annotations and illustrations, volume 3 in particular. The annotations are in mid-sixteenth-century black ink manuscript as are the drawings, several of which have been coloured in. Most of the illustrations relate to the text and display a high degree of artistry and humour. Incorporated into some of the illustrations is a small tablet with a monogram or possibly a stylised cross and serpent, many with a date: 1540.
In volume 1, several large major initials are supplied and decorated in red or blue with the major initial on [*]7r supplied in blue with pen ornamentation in red extending into the inner margin.
In volume 2, major initials are supplied alternately in red and blue.
In volume 3, major initials are supplied alternately in red and blue with the initials on A1r and B1r drawn and decorated in black ink manuscript to resemble ornamental woodcut initials.
Volume 2 is wanting the blank leaf gg6.
Bindings
The three volumes are half bound in the original bevelled wooden boards rebacked with pigskin. There is writing in black ink manuscript on each of the upper boards - volume 1: Ouidij: methamorph[o]s[is]; volume 2: Liber: amo[rum]: ouidij; volume 3: Ouid: fasti: [...]stibus. The pigskin spines have three raised bands and the pigskin is blind-tooled with a repeating pattern of stylised foliage on the upper and lower covers where it meets the wooden boards. Tooled in black in the second panel of each volume is the title - volume 1: Ovidii Opera I. Metamorph.; volume 2: Ovidii Opera II. Epistola. etc; volume 3: Ovidii Opera III. Fasti. Tooled in black at the base of each spine is the place and date: Parmæ 1477. On each volume there is evidence of a single decorated metal clasp with the catch on the upper board. Volume 1 - Size: 355 x 230mm. Leaf size: 336 x 215mm. Volume 2 - Size: 350 x 230mm. Leaf size: 335 x 215mm. Volume 3 - Size: 356 x 230mm. Leaf size: 337 x 215mm.
Provenance
Inscription in black ink manuscript at the head of the recto of the first unsigned leaf of volume 2 (aa1r): Iste liber ouidij est theodericj depleningen equitis aurati et legum professoris.
Written in black ink manuscript at the head of the recto of the first blank leaf of volume 3 (A1r) is the name: Theodericj depleningen ll doctoris.
In black ink manuscript at the head of the recto of the first unsigned leaf of volume 2 (aa1r) is an illustration of two pillars with a scroll between bearing the words: Plvs vltra. Beneath is a date and inscription: 1548 Vertrau O. v. Egk.
Written in black ink manuscript on the recto of the first blank leaf of volume 3 (A1r) is a date and inscription: 1545. Vertrau O. v. Egk.
Inscription in black ink manuscript at the centre of the recto of the first blank leaf of volume 3 (A1r): Inceptus prelegi Tegernsee die martis post Inuocauit Anni MDXXXX. Beneath the inscription is a drawing of shield bearing a coat of arms decorated with a flower between two horizontal shaded lines of hatching and held up by a strap with a buckle.
Inscription in black ink manuscript at the top of the verso of the first unsigned leaf of volume 3 (A1v): Annotationes in P. Ovidii Nasonis fasto[rum] libros Per Osvaldum ab Egk ex M. Sebastianij Lincij prelectione collectae.
At the bottom of leaf H5v in volume 3 (the end of the Fasti) is an inscription in black ink manuscript: Finitus ultimus hic P. Ovidij Nasonis Fastorum liber Ingolstadij die 7 Februarij Anno MDXXXXI.
Cuttings from sale catalogues and printed materials inserted at the front of volume 1 claim that the three books were formerly in the possession of the German reformer and theologian Philipp Melanchthon, and that many of the annotations and illustrations they contain can be attributed to him.
Book label of Georgius Kloss, M.D. Francofurti ad Moenum on the front pastedown of volumes 1 and 2. Georg Kloss's library was disposed of by Sotheby's in 1835.
Armorial bookplate of William Horatio Crawford on the front pastedown of volumes 2 and 3.
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown of each volume. The books were most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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