Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V

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Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoseon libri XV, Lyon, 1534, contemporary French tan calf

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OVIDIUS NASO, PUBLIUS. Pub. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon, hoc est, Transformationum, libri XV. Cum Indice Fabularum locupletissimo. Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1534


Ovid's Metamorphoses handsomely bound in a contemporary French binding, including portraits of Plato and Dido. The English Medallion Binder (ca 1550) also used portrait stamps of Plato and Dido (see Nixon, Five Centuries, no.12), plausibly influenced by these.

8vo (160 x 107 mm). Italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: a-z8 A-F8: 232 leaves. Title-page and verso of final leaf with woodcut device, woodcut initials, some passages underlined in an early modern hand. (Title-page soiled and frayed at lower margin, marginal dampstaining).


binding: Contemporary French tan calf (167 x 116 mm), border of multiple blind lines and repeated blind rope tool with gilt fleurons at outer corners, in the center of upper cover gilt portrait medallion of Plato surrounded by four gilt eagles, Dido on lower cover, spine with 5 full and 2 half bands, plain edges. (Joints cracked, restored).


provenance: Erasmushaus/Haus der Bücher, Katalog 904, item 15. acquisition: Purchased in 2001 from Erasmushaus/Haus der Bücher, Basel. references: USTC 146772 (listing three institutional copies); von Gültlingen V: Gryphe 267

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