P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseos libri cum commento

Description

Signatures: [*]² A-R⁸ S⁶.


Imprint from colophon.


Colophon on S5r reads: Venetiis impressum Per Bonetum Locatellu[m]: mandato & expe[n]sis nobilis uiri Octauiani Scoti Modoetiensis. Anno salutis.M.CCCC.LXXXXIII.Nonis Iuniis.


Bartholomeus Merula's letter below the colophon is dated MCCCCLXXXXIII.pridie Nonas Iunias. [4 June 1493]


Commentary by Rafaello Regio.


Text and commentary printed in parallel columns with 61 lines of commentary.


Signature A1 is signed a.


Ornamental woodcut initials.


Printer's mark of Octavianus Scotus with the monogram OSM on leaf S5v.


The final leaf S6 is blank.


Indexed in: ISTC no. io00188000.


Indexed in: Goff O-188; Hain 12172; Walsh 2298.

Features

Two sets of numbers are written at the head of the verso of the front free endpaper. In ink manuscript: L L3:24. In pencil manuscript: 57.C.23.


Note in pencil manuscript, twentieth-century, at the head of the verso of the front free endpaper: Complete - mark of Octaviani Scoti at end a beautiful specimen of the Early Venetian Press.


Notes in pencil manuscript on the verso of the first front flyleaf giving details of the ornamental woodcut initials as used in other Venetian editions.


This copy is wanting the title page and the final blank leaf.


Bindings


Eighteenth-century binding of full citron goatskin over pasteboard. The upper and lower covers are gold-tooled with a border of double fillets and a frame of double fillets with a line of ornament. At each corner of the frame is a lozenge-shaped ornament of stylised foliage and flowers. The spine has six raised bands and in the second panel is a pared brown leather lettering piece gold-tooled with the words: Ovidi Metamorph. Gold-tooled onto the spine in the third panel is the place: Venetiis. Beneath the place of publication is a small rectangular paper label with the date written in black ink manuscript: 1493. Each of the other panels are gold-tooled with a frame of double fillets containing a central fleuron surrounded by ornamentation. The turn-ins and board edges are gold-tooled with a repeating pattern of circles and scallops. The pastedowns are of marbled paper featuring a combination of the comb and curl patterns in red, orange, green, blue and white. The book has gilt leaf
edges. Size: 300 x 212mm. Leaf size: 289 x 200mm.

Provenance

Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown: WIlliam Niven, F.S.A. Udny House, Teddington.


Cutting from a sale catalogue on the front pastedown and another smaller cutting beneath printed with the words: William Ridler, 45, Booksellers'.


Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the recto of the front free endpaper. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.

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