P. Ouidij Nasonis Metamorphoseos libri moralizati . cum pulcherrimis fabularum principalium figuris. Ouidii metamorphoseos quindecim libri cu[m] ipsius poetæ uita ex eius operibus dilige[n]tissime collecta ... Lacta[n]tii Firmiani ... Adnotationes præterea ... Philippi Beroaldi: Ioa[n]nis baptistae pii: Ia[n]ni Parrhasii: Lodouici Coelii Rhodigini: & Iacobi Bononie[n]sis; huc curauit adiicie[n]das Ioa[n]nes Theodericus Bellouacus. ...
Ovid (43 BC - 17 or 18 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1518
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3131575
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6],CCVI,[6] leaves . ill.. . 4to.. Wants final blank leaf; leaves a3-4 misbound. Some early manuscript annotations. 19th cent. manuscript quote from Martial on front free endpaper. Ms. drawing (by Wilkinson) pasted onto leaf o8v, with some pencil numbering by him in that section. Early codes at foot of title page 'E[?] cge'. Some worming. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: 'John Gardner Wilkinson Brynfield House.' [i.e. Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1795-1875)] and inscription 'Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson in remembrance of the Lady Tyrconnel A.D. 1853' [probably Sarah Carpenter, (nee Crowe) Lady Tyrconnel (d.1868), widow of last Earl of Tyrconnel (d. 1853)]. Nineteenth-century anonymous armorial bookplate on front pastedown, Crowe & Buckle, listing 16 arms quartered, including Tyrconnel, inside collar of the Royal Guelphic Order [probably Franks 5185, bookplate of John Delavel Carpenter, Earl of Tyrconnel (1790-1853)]. Small nineteenth-century bookplate: 'Calke Abbey Library', motto 'Degeneranti genus opprobium'. Sixteenth- or seventeenth-century manuscript inscription on title page: 'John Arnold' [twice, in different styles; unidentified]. On final verso: seventeenth?-century inscription:'George Wingfield his book', and eighteenth-century inscription in another hand 'Master George Wingfield 1703' [unidentified]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full vellum over boards, marbled endpapers, spine gilt-tooled & lettered on red label 'P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseos', with gilt-stamped coronet & globe on boards & spine.
Makers and roles
Ovid (43 BC - 17 or 18 AD) Lactantius (c.240-c.320) Petrus Lavinius Raffaele Regio (c.1450-1520)