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tio00185000
- Text-inc Id:
- tio00185000
- Bod-inc Id:
- O-079
- Headings:
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Ovidius Naso, Publius
Metamorphoses [Italian] Ovidio Methamorphoseos vulgare (trans. and comm. Giovanni Bonsignori).
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[*1r] [Title-page.]
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[*1v] [Bonsignori, Giovanni]: ‘Proemium'. Incipit: ‘[G]lorioso e excelso patre eterno idio dacui ogni gracia e dono procede . . .’
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[*1v] ‘Tauola'.
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a1r Ovidius [Naso, Publius]: Metamorphoses [Italian. Translated by Giovanni Bonsignori.] ‘Ovidio Methamorphoseos vulgare'. Giovanni Bonsignori, Ovidio Metamorphoseos Vulgare, ed. E. Ardissino (Bologna, 2001).
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a2r [Bonsignori, Giovanni: Allegorical commentary.] ‘Alegoria'. Incipit: ‘La prima allegoria del primo libro i de chaos doueno sapere in quatro elementi . . .’ On the commentary see B. Guthmüller, Ovidio Metamorphoseos vulgare (Boppard am Rhein, 1981), 56-135; see also Stefano Pittaluga, ‘Lettori umanistici di Ovidio', in La Tradition vive. Mélanges d'histoire des textes en l'honneur de Louis Holtz, ed. Pierre Lardet, Bibliologia, 20 (Turnhout, 2003), 335-47, at 337. Allegories follow many chapters in each book.
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Venice: Johannes Rubeus, Vercellensis, for Lucantonio Giunta, 10 Apr. 1497. Folio.
- Collation:
- [*4] a–r8 s6. Woodcuts: see Essling; for the woodcut border on a1r see also BMC.
- References:
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: io00185000
HCR 12166;
Goff O‑185;
BMC V 419;
Pr 5144;
BSB‑Ink O‑141; CIBN O‑125; Essling 223; Sander 5330; Sheppard 4130. Microfiche: Unit 2: Classics in Translation.
LCN: 14442071
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O-079(1)
Copy
The outer margins of c1 and c8 have been repaired.
Binding: Seventeenth-century(?) Italian parchment; edges dyed blue.
Size: 302 × 211 × 31 mm.
Size of leaf: 295 × 202 mm.
Provenance: Shelfmark ‘C.4.4' on the front pastedown.
Earlier book-plate below that of Douce, the details of which are not visible.
Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate.
Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 246.
