Ovidii Nasonis Sulmonensis de arte amandi liber primus incipit.

Accession number: 
PML 20045.1
Author: 
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
Published: 
[Cologne] : [Printer of the 'Historia S. Albani' (Johann Guldenschaff or Conrad Winters, de Homborch?)], [approximately 1474]
Description: 
[70] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1916.
Notes: 

Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in type 1:102G.
Collation: [1-8⁸ 9⁶]: 70 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.6 x 13.8 cm.

Binding: 
Modern half brown goatskin, with cloth sides, over paper boards (21 x 14 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Variant Title: 

De arte amandi et de remedio amoris

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red initials and capital strokes. Annotations: 1 contemporary marginal notation, "Iesus" (leaf [1]/1r and explicit inscription at end of Buerik. Lenghty contemporary inscription, heavily faded, title "Sanctus et Immensus" (leaf [9]/6v).

Provenance: 
J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Jan. 1916.
Classification: 
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