Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, October 1502, nineteenth-century vellum

Ovidius Naso, Publius. Quae hoc volumine continentur. Ad Marinum Sannutum Epistola qui apud Graecos scripserint Metamorphoseis. Aldo priuilegium concessum ad reip. litterariae utilitatem. Orthographia dictionum Graecarum per ordinem literarum. Vita Ouidij ex ipsius operib. Index fabularum et caeterorum, quae insunt hoc libro secundum ordinem alphabeti. Ouidii Metamorphoseon libri quindecim [Latin and Greek]. Venice: Aldo Manuzio, October 1502

[Bound with:] Publii Ouidii Nasonis Heroidum epistolae. Auli Sabini. Epistolae tres. P.O.N. Elegiarum. Libri tres. De arte amandi. Libri tres. De remedio amoris. Libri duo. In Ibin. Liber unus. Ad Liuiam epistola de morte Drusi. De nuce. De medicamine faciei. Venice: Aldo Manuzio, December 1502

[And:] Publii Ouidii Nasonis, Quae hoc in libello continentur. Fastorum. Libri VI. De tristibus. Libri V. De Ponto. Libri IIII. Venice: Aldo Manuzio, February 1503 [January 1502]

The Clark copy (see Bibliotheca Brookeriana...The Aldine Collection A-D for Dr. William Stoneman's essay on Charles W. Clark). A mixed set, likely assembled in the nineteenth-century.

Three volumes, 8vo (158 x 95 mm). (1) Italic and Roman type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: a-h^{8 2}a-z⁸ A-B⁸ C⁴ (h8 a blank): 268 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final recto, early marginalia. (Foxing, occasional marginal dampstaining, paper flaw to 2a5, some worming to lower margin neatly repaired, occasional soiling.) (2) Italic and Roman type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: aa-ii⁸ kk⁴ ll-pp⁸ qq⁴ rr-zz⁸ AA-BB⁸ CC¹⁰ (qq4) a blank: 202 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page, early marginalia. (Scattered foxing and staining, occasional marginal dampstaining.) (3) Italic and Roman type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: aaa-kkk⁸ lll⁶ mmm-sss⁸ ttt⁶ uuu-zzz⁸ AAA-CCC⁸ (lll6 a blank): 204 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page, verso of lll5, and final verso, instances of early marginalia. (Scattered foxing and marginal dampstaining.)

binding: Nineteenth-century vellum (167 x 113 mm), yapp edges and chamois ties, Metamorphoses's edges gilt and gauffered. (Some soiling and spotting.)

provenance: Early inscription "Tantalides omne(s?) die mihi" to verso of last leaf of Metamorphoses (16th-century) — Charles W. Clark, The Library of Charles W. Clark (San Francisco 1914), I: 94 — Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia. acquisition: Purchased from John Fleming, New York, 1962. references: (1) UCLA 66; Renouard 37/12; Edit16 36136; USTC 845662; (2) UCLA 67; Renouard 37/13; Edit16 36132; USTC 845646; (3) UCLA 68; Renouard 38/14; Edit16 48412; USTC

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