Ovidius Naso, Fasti, Tristia, and Epistulae ex Ponto, [Lyon, Baldazare de Gabiano and/or/for Barthelemy Trot?, 1504–1505?], contemporary binding of a vellum manuscript leaf

Ovidius Naso, Publius. Publii Ouidii Nasonis, Quae hoc in libello continentur. Fastorum. Libri VI. De tristibus. Libri V. De Ponto. Libri IIII. [Lyon: Baldazare de Gabiano and/or/for Barthelemy Trot?, 1504–1505?]

First Lyon counterfeit of the Aldine edition of January 1502–February 1503, retaining Aldo's preface to Marino Sanudo (1466-1535) on the verso of the title-page.

8vo (158 x 97 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: aaa–kkk⁸ lll⁶ mmm–sss⁸ ttt⁶ uuu–zzz⁸ AAA–CCC⁸: 204 leaves (lll6 blank). Two-, three-, and four-line initial spaces with guide letters. (Minor worming to first three leaves, some light, scattered soiling.)

binding: Contemporary binding of a vellum manuscript leaf over pasteboards (166 x 102 mm), spine covered with a later strip of paper with seventeenth/eighteenth-century title and shelfmark M.A3.T. in ink, without endpapers, title on lower- edge and author artlessly on fore-edge. (Soiled and worn.) Red slipcase, chemise with green morocco label.

provenance: Unidentified owner, sixteenth-century inscription, "Jesus/Franciscus Fr … ia," on title-page — Conte Paolo Camerini (1868–1937), booklabel of the Biblioteca Cameriniana, Piazzola, with shelfmark XLIII.253.3 — Georges Heilbrun, Catalogue 45: Le premier caractère italique en France (Paris [1976]), item 15 (FF 1800). acquisition: Purchased from Georges Heilbrun, Paris, 1976. references: UCLA 1123 (not in collection); Baudrier, VII:13; FB 81195; Renouard 307/12; Shaw, "The Lyons counterfeit of Aldus's italic type," in The Italian Book 1465–1800 (1993), 15; USTC 142867