Ovidius Naso, Publius: Opera.
Edited by Johannes Calphurnius
[Venice]: Jacobus Rubeus, [before Dec.] 1474.
Fol. [1-510 68 7-1210 13-1412 15-1610 17-188 1910 2012 218 226 23-2510 2612 27-3110 328 336 34-3510 3612 37-4210]. [412] leaves (1/1 blank).
ISTC io00128000; GW M28590; Goff O128; BMC V 214 (IB. 20069); Bod-inc O-039; CIBN O-80.
| GIP number: | O11 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bh.1.18 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
| Provenance: | Joseph Smith (1673/4?-1770), British Consul in Venice: engraved armorial bookplate on front pastedown; lot 1455 “Ovidii Metamorphoseon, edit. princeps, sine anno & loco” in Bibliotheca Smithiana: a catalogue of the curious, elegant, and very valuable library of Joseph Smith ... (London: 1773). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Smith sale for £5.15.6 according to the annotated British Library copy of the Smith sale catalogue - shelfmark S.C.S. 8(7). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate - originally pasted over Consul Smith bookplate - now removed. |
| Binding: | Italy, 18th-century parchment; green leather title label on spine; green-edged leaves; green silk bookmark. Size: 324 x 235 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 316 x 229 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent washed-out marginal annotations in black ink in a humanist hand, often extracting keywords; occasional, brief marginal annotations in a humanist hand in red ink; frequent nota marks; running book numbers “I-XV” on rectos. |
| Decoration: | Ten-line initial “I” on 1/2r supplied in purple, green and blue on a rectangular gold ground, with a floral border in the same colours in the inner and upper margins. |
| Imperfections: | Metamorphoses only (quires 1-14); wanting the blank leaf 1/1. |
