Some newly discovered stanzas written by John Milton on engraved scenes illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses / this Milton-Ovid script was written, circa 1623 ; discovered, 1921 ; first printed in Notes and queries, 1922-3 ; and is now revised and reprinted, in one volume, with many additional notes by Hugh C.H. Candy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milton, John, 1608-1674.

Contributor:

Candy, Hugh Charles Herbert, 1859-1935.

Stuart Curran-Joseph Wittreich Milton Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses--Liber 15.

Ovid.

Posthius, Johannes, 1537-1597.

Posthius, Johannes.

Penn Provenance:

Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copy)

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 9-191 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait, facsimiles ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Nisbet & Co., 1924.

Notes:

166 stanzas, faithfully printed from the manuscript written on blank pages in a copy of Johannes Posthius' "Tetrasticha in Ovidii metamor. Lib XV. qvibus accesserunt Vergilij Solis figurae elegantiss.", printed at Frankfort in 1563. The Latin and German quatrains that accompany each plate are reserved for a larger work.

Local Notes:

Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.

Penn Libraries Milton Collection copy has bookseller's label ("Blackwell's, Oxford, England") on front pastedown; photocopy of p. 250 of "New Monthly Magazine February 1821"? (supplied in ms. in pencil at foot of sheet) containing "Lines for the Bust of Milton" laid in.

OCLC:

3553266