Ovidius Naso, Fasti, Tristia, Epistulae ex Ponto, Venice, Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, January 1516, Roman brown morocco from Cardinals' Shop, 1520s

Ovidius Naso, Publius [and] Ptolemaeus. Cla. Ptolomaei inerrantium stellarum significationes … P. Ouidij Nasonis Fastorum lib. VI, Tristium lib. V, De Ponto lib. IV … Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, January 1516

Bound by Cardinals' Shop (see Hobson "Two early sixteenth-century binders’ shops in Rome").

8vo (164 x 95 mm). Italic and Roman type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: π-2π⁸ 3π⁶ aaa-kkk⁸ lll⁶ mmm-sss⁸ ttt⁶ uuu- zzz⁸ AAA-EEE⁸ FFF⁴ (3π6 and lll6 blanks): 246 leaves (foliation passing over 87, 88, 151, and 152). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso. (Title repaired, scattered foxing and staining, dampstaining.)

binding: Roman brown morocco from Cardinals' Shop (167 x 103 mm), 1520s, border of three blind fillets, central panel outlined by five fillets with flame at corners enclosing a rectangle formed by three fillets with exedrae, flame at corners, central roundel composed of fillet and repeated leaf surrounding OVI* | FASTO | RVM, with knotwork tool and two flame tools above and below, spine with raised bands in eight compartments, traces of two pairs of ties, edges gilt and gauffered. (Binding refurbished, gilt oxidized, joints weak, endleaves removed.) Housed in a tan half morocco case and folding chemise.

provenance: Early inscription effaced from title — Nicolò & Angelo Papadopoli-Aldobrandini (1841-1922; 1843-1919), engraved armorial ex libris — Roberto Ridolfi (1899-1991), ex libris on lower pastedown — Giorgio Angiolo Eduardo Uzielli (1915-1984). acquisition: Purchased from John Fleming, New York, 1986. references: UCLA 141; Renouard 78/10; Edit16 47168; USTC 845702; Adams P-2238; Anthony Hobson, "Two early sixteenth-century binder's shops in Rome" in De libris compactis miscellanea, edited by G. Colin (Aubel-Brussels 1984), pp. 79-98 (p. 92, no. 13: "New York, G. Uzielli, Esq.")