Epistole Ouidij cu[m] co[m]me[n]to. . Epistole Heroides Publij Ouidij Nasonis diligenti castigatione exculte, ...: co[m]mentantibus Antonio Volsco, Vbertino Cresentinate, et A. Iano Parrhasio, necnon Iodoco Badio Ascensio. Liber seu epistola Sapphus cum enarrationibus Domitij Calderini Veronensis primarij interpretis, Georgii Merule Alexandrini et ipsius Iodoci Badij Ascensij. Liber in Ibin cu[m] ... interpretationibus Domitij Calderini, Christophori zaroti, ...
Ovid (43 BC - 17 or 18 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1528
Materials
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3022880
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],cxl leaves . ill.. . 4to. Pages water-stained, with some cockling; flyleaves brittle. Calf (16c.) on oak boards; blind-tooled (rolls, incl. initial TP); hasps of brass clasps on back board. Title in ink on fore-edge: Epistole Ouidij. Leaves xxxv-xxviii (= e3-6) from a 16c. Latin service book (printed in black-letter, red and black) used as flyleaves and pastedowns. Broad strip of 15/16c. manuscript on vellum used in binding. MS scribbles on final page (Latin, 16c. English hand), incl. "Si meus iste Liber..." and "pret. xx d." (latter also on title-page). Provenance: Name on title-page (16c. hand): Edwarde. Names (unclear 16c. hand) on last page: Johan Pope, Johan Carspe [?] Bookplates: Belton House (earl's coronet & crests), pasted over: Lord Brownlow's Grantham House.
Makers and roles
Ovid (43 BC - 17 or 18 AD) Clericus Crescentinas Hubertinus, Josse Badius (1462-1535) Domizio Calderino (1447 - 1478) Georgius Merula (1430/1-1494) Aulus Janus Parrhasius (1470–1522) Antonius Volscus Christophorus Zarotus