Ovid, Opera, Venice, 1474, later calf

OVIDIUS NASO, PUBLIUS

Opera [edited by Johannes Calphurnius]. [Venice]: Jacobus Rubeus, [before December] 1474

folio (310 x 195mm.), 411 leaves (of 412, without initial blank), [a-e¹⁰ f⁸ g-m¹⁰ n-o¹²; p-q¹⁰ r-s⁸ t¹⁰ u¹² x⁸ y⁶; [et] A-B¹⁰ C¹²; D-H¹⁰ I⁸ K⁶; L-M¹⁰ N¹² O¹⁰; P-T¹⁰], 43 lines, roman type, capital spaces, later manuscript running titles, a few annotations (some earlier, some later), bibliographical note in English pasted to inside front cover, eighteenth-century calf, spine gilt in compartments, [g9] torn and repaired (without loss), some spotting and light staining, extremities slightly rubbed, neatly rebacked retaining original spine

The editor, Giovanni Calfurnio (c. 1443-1503), a respected humanist, had been a pupil of Ognibene da Lonigo and became professor at Padua. He includes here the recently-discovered Consolatio ad Liviam, first printed in the 1471 Rome edition of Ovid, but now considered spurious.

LITERATURE:

ISTC io00128000

PROVENANCE:

"io Ludovico Rog[--]", inscription on first leaf and the date 25 November 1573 at start of Heroides and at end of De Ponto