1586 Venetian Folio
METAMORPHOSEON LIBRI XV
RAPHAELIS REGII VOLATERRANI
LVCVLENTISSIMA EXPLANATIO
Complete copy including blanks and full index.
A substantial Renaissance “reader’s Ovid”: the complete Metamorphoses in Latin, printed for close study in the classic Venetian text + commentary frame, and illustrated throughout with woodcut vignettes and ornate initials, with a woodcut printer’s device on the title page. Ovid’s verse runs centrally, surrounded on all sides by interpretive notes—philology, mythography, and moral reading traditions in dialogue on the page.
By Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
Author Bio: Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) (43 BCE – c. 17/18 CE) was one of the great poets of Augustan Rome. His Metamorphoses—fifteen books of mythic transformations from the creation of the world to Roman myth-history—became a foundational source for European literature and art. Raphael Regius (Raffaele Regio of Volterra) was a leading Italian humanist whose commentaries shaped how classical texts were taught and interpreted in the Renaissance.
Antonio Constantio Fanensi/Paulus Marsus Piscinate
Commentary / scholia tradition led by Raphael Regius (Raffaele Regio of Volterra), with further scholarly apparatus including argumenta, named Renaissance annotators, and a concluding index.
Synopsis: Author / work context: This edition presents the Metamorphoses as Renaissance readers encountered it: not only as a sequence of brilliant mythic narratives (Daphne, Narcissus, Actaeon, Pyramus & Thisbe, Orpheus & Eurydice, and hundreds more), but as a scholarly object designed for study. The commentary supports linguistic clarification and mythographic identification, while the woodcuts act as visual “anchors” for the fables—an illustrated mythological handbook for the learned reader.
Binding: Hardcover, small folio (smf 11.5 x 7.5 in 290 x 190 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Collation: Complete: [8],1,[1],2,3,1,1,3,1-315,3,[2]
Language: Latin (with occasional Greek in the scholarly apparatus).
Published By: Venetiis (Venice), Apud Nicolaum Moretum (Niccolò Moretti), Italy
Condition Report:
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Good+ - Later half-leather binding is solid and serviceable; boards stable. Internally complete, with text clear and readable. Paper shows age-related cockling/waviness and occasional staining/spotting, consistent with a well-used 16th-century study copy. One woodcut vignette bears an old ink blot / censoring mark obscuring nudity; all other illustrated elements appear intact. A handsome, honest Renaissance working copy with strong shelf presence and the desirable “lived-in” character collectors of annotated/study classics often appreciate.
Binding:
Hardcover, half leather (later binding), with cloth sides.
Format: Large quarto / small folio.
Size: approx. 302 × 204 mm.
Collation:
Complete with blanks and index, as follows (in reading order):
8 initial blank leaves (2 original)
Title page + blank
Dedication to Philippo Cyulano… (2 pp)
Apologia Raphaelis Regii… (3 pp)
Auctorum qui in hoc opere citantur nomina (1 p)
In titulum libri Metamorphosis annotatio (1 p)
Ovidii Vita (3 pp)
Main text: pp. 1–315
Index: 3 pp
2 final blank leaves
References
Adams O502; EDIT16 CNCE 31201..
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
SKU: BTETM0002689
1586 Venetian Folio
METAMORPHOSEON LIBRI XV
RAPHAELIS REGII VOLATERRANI
LVCVLENTISSIMA EXPLANATIO
Complete copy including blanks and full index.
A substantial Renaissance “reader’s Ovid”: the complete Metamorphoses in Latin, printed for close study in the classic Venetian text + commentary frame, and illustrated throughout with woodcut vignettes and ornate initials, with a woodcut printer’s device on the title page. Ovid’s verse runs centrally, surrounded on all sides by interpretive notes—philology, mythography, and moral reading traditions in dialogue on the page.
By Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
Author Bio: Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) (43 BCE – c. 17/18 CE) was one of the great poets of Augustan Rome. His Metamorphoses—fifteen books of mythic transformations from the creation of the world to Roman myth-history—became a foundational source for European literature and art. Raphael Regius (Raffaele Regio of Volterra) was a leading Italian humanist whose commentaries shaped how classical texts were taught and interpreted in the Renaissance.
Antonio Constantio Fanensi/Paulus Marsus Piscinate
Commentary / scholia tradition led by Raphael Regius (Raffaele Regio of Volterra), with further scholarly apparatus including argumenta, named Renaissance annotators, and a concluding index.
Synopsis: Author / work context: This edition presents the Metamorphoses as Renaissance readers encountered it: not only as a sequence of brilliant mythic narratives (Daphne, Narcissus, Actaeon, Pyramus & Thisbe, Orpheus & Eurydice, and hundreds more), but as a scholarly object designed for study. The commentary supports linguistic clarification and mythographic identification, while the woodcuts act as visual “anchors” for the fables—an illustrated mythological handbook for the learned reader.
Binding: Hardcover, small folio (smf 11.5 x 7.5 in 290 x 190 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Collation: Complete: [8],1,[1],2,3,1,1,3,1-315,3,[2]
Language: Latin (with occasional Greek in the scholarly apparatus).
Published By: Venetiis (Venice), Apud Nicolaum Moretum (Niccolò Moretti), Italy
Condition Report:
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Good+ - Later half-leather binding is solid and serviceable; boards stable. Internally complete, with text clear and readable. Paper shows age-related cockling/waviness and occasional staining/spotting, consistent with a well-used 16th-century study copy. One woodcut vignette bears an old ink blot / censoring mark obscuring nudity; all other illustrated elements appear intact. A handsome, honest Renaissance working copy with strong shelf presence and the desirable “lived-in” character collectors of annotated/study classics often appreciate.
Binding:
Hardcover, half leather (later binding), with cloth sides.
Format: Large quarto / small folio.
Size: approx. 302 × 204 mm.
Collation:
Complete with blanks and index, as follows (in reading order):
8 initial blank leaves (2 original)
Title page + blank
Dedication to Philippo Cyulano… (2 pp)
Apologia Raphaelis Regii… (3 pp)
Auctorum qui in hoc opere citantur nomina (1 p)
In titulum libri Metamorphosis annotatio (1 p)
Ovidii Vita (3 pp)
Main text: pp. 1–315
Index: 3 pp
2 final blank leaves
References
Adams O502; EDIT16 CNCE 31201..
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
SKU: BTETM0002689
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