Ovid's Metamorphosis englished, . mythologiz'd and represented in figures. An essay to the translation of Virgil's Æneis. By G.S. [George Sandys].
Ovid (43 BC - 17 or 18 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1632
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3020579
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24],1-38,[2],45-80,[2],81-112,[2],113-124,145-169,[3],171 - 199,[3],201-230,[2],231-264,[2],265-300,[2],301-336,[2],33 7 -367,[3],369-398,[2],399-454,[2],455-487,[3],491-549,[1]p. . ill.. . fol.. Annotations (signs of reading and pen trials) and other scored out writings in multiple hands on endpapers. Rear endpapers annotated with subjects and relevant page numbers. Provenance: Extensive ms. inscriptions, most obliterated or unread, including including 'Ambrotia', 'Ellanor Curzon' [probably Eleanor Curzon, daughter of Sir John Curzon (1598-1686)]. Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, Curzon impaling Colyear, signed 'P. Mazell': 'Recte et Suaviter' (Franks 7705 2nd state- fine text) [Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) m. 1750 Lady Caroline Colyear]. Binding: Seventeenth-century plain calf binding; triple blind fillet border; blind stamped initials "I.P." on cover; six raised bands; spine blind ruled and spine label gilt lettered: "Sandy's Ovid's Metamorphoses". Manuscript waste.
Makers and roles
Ovid (43 BC - 17 or 18 AD) George Sandys (1578-1644)