tio00180000

Text-inc Id:

tio00180000

Bod-inc Id:

O-070

Headings:

Ovidius Naso, Publius Metamorphoses.

Analysis of content:

1. a1v Calderinus, Domitius: [De exilio Ovidii.] Incipit: ‘[D]e Ouidii uita nihil a nobis in hoc loco scribendum . . .’ Explicit: ut scribit Plinius
2. a2r [Ovidius Naso, Publius: Tristia.] Ov. Tr. 1. 7. 35-40.
3. a2r [Table of contents for book 1.] Each book is preceded by a table of contents.
4. a2v [Summary of book 1, ‘fabula' 1.] Incipit: ‘Chaos ut Hesiodi indicat uolumen quod deorum originem . . .’ Explicit: parte subsiderent Each ‘fabula' is preceded by a short summary.
5. a3r Ovidius Naso, Publius: Metamorphoses. Ov. Met. Between 15. 744 and 745 is the following couplet, entitled ‘Epigramma': ‘Bacchus et Alcides Caesar per gesta deorum | Nomina habent iuncta sed sua facta magis'. For the ‘Accursius tradition' of the Metamorphoses see Steiner, ‘Source-Editions', 228-9.

Imprint:

Parma: [Printer of Ovidius, ‘Metamorphoses'], 1479. Folio.

Collation:

a¹⁰ b–h I k–ſ s–y⁸ z & [rum]⁶.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: io00180000 HC (+ Addenda) *12159; Goff O‑180; BMC VII 941; Pr 6846; BSB‑Ink O‑132; CIBN O‑114; Sheppard 5665; Steiner, ‘Source-Editions', 222 no. 5d. LCN: 14442729

Copies:

1. O-070(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaf [Rum6]. Leaf a1 repaired. Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century quarter light brown morocco, with brown paper boards; marbled pastedowns. Size: 304 × 190 × 36 mm. Size of leaf: 296 × 180 mm. Early notes, including the name of the author, and the title of the work, on a1r. Sixteenth-century marginal annotations, including corrections to the text, and pointing hands, also underlining in the text in black ink. On s2v a six-line initial ‘N', on t4v a five-line initial ‘C', on x3v a six-line initial ‘I', on z2v a five-line initial ‘Q', and on [Rum5v] a two-line initial ‘I' are supplied in red; other five- and six-line initials, some with extensions into the margins, and running book numbers are supplied in black ink. Provenance: A shelfmark ‘H.I.16' is on the recto of the front endleaf, and another, ‘A.16', is on the spine. Purchased for £0. 15. 0: see Books Purchased (1837), 28. SHELFMARK: Auct. O inf. 2.27.