[Metamorphoses].
Ovid (43 BC - 17 or 18 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1513
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3143216
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],cxcii,[10] fol. . ill. . 4to.. Imperfect: lacks all before a3, fols,xxxv-xxxviii (f3-6), lxiii-lxiiii (i7-8), something following cxcii (B8), and all after [final] A5. Fols. clxix-clxxxiiii (z1-8, A1-8) misbound, following fol. cxcii (B8). colophon supplied in manuscript in hand of W.H. Allnutt. Annotated in several sixteenth and seventeenth-century hands.. Provenance: In ink on fol. viii, in juvenile hand 'J Phillip Gamon his boke Leant of his father' (i.e. Hannibal Gamon (1582?-1651), Rector of St. Mawgan in Pydar.). In ink in margin of fol.clxxxviii, in sixteenth-century italic hand, cropped by binder 'Thomas Chaple'; likewise in margin of leaf A1 of index 'Edward Soard[?]s his boak'.. Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter leather and textured paper. Disused stitching holes in gutter margin. These match those in the copy of Ovid 'Heroides' at F.11.25: the two possibly originally bound together.
Makers and roles
Ovid (43 BC - 17 or 18 AD) Lactantius (c.240-c.320) Petrus Lavinius Raffaele Regio (c.1450-1520)