Opera.
Ovid (43 BC - 17 or 18 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1480
Materials
Place of origin
Vicenza
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3103684
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ([250], [168] leaves) ; fol. Running number: 6972. Imperfect: part 1 only, consists of gatherings k-hh; wanting gatherings a-i and all of pt. 2. Five-line initial on k1r crudely supplied in black ink, all other initial spaces left blank; paragraph marks and capital strokes throughout supplied in red. Early marginal annotations and markings in different hands, 'nota' marks, and pointing hands (manicules) in black, brown and red ink (some washed out, some cropped by binder). Early foliation. Provenance: manuscript inscription on k1r: "D. Matthaeus Bloysius". Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Pencil note in the hand of Cecil Clarabut (the National Trust's first Libraries Adviser) on verso of front free endpaper: "48 lines. 176 leaves of pt. 1". Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on six supports; double gilt fillet and foliate roll pattern border; gilt floral roll pattern on board edges; same blind floral roll pattern on turn-ins; spine rebacked in calf with original gold-tooled spine retained and original brown leather title label 'Ouidii De Arte Ama'di'; brown sprinkled bookblock edges; comb and swirl pattern marbled endpapers. Conservator's typescript note attached to rear fly-leaf, signed and dated 'Nicholas Pickwoad 1 October 1986'.
Makers and roles
Ovid (43 BC - 17 or 18 AD), author Antipater, of Sidon (fl. ca. 100 B.C.), author Horace (65 - 8 BC), author Decimus Magnus Ausonius (c.310-c.395), author Publius Papinius Statius (c.45 – c.96 AD), author Bonus Accursius (d.1485), editor Barnaba Celsano (active 15th century-16th century), editor Hermann Lichtenstein (d. 1494), printer