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Ovyde, hys booke of Metamorphose, books X-XV / translated by William Caxton; newly printed from the manuscript in the Pepysian library at Magdalene college, Cambridge.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Collection Folio PR1847 .O7 1924
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Standardized Title:
- Metamorphoses. Selections. English. 1924
- Language:
- English
- French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- 4 preliminary leaves, xiij-xl, 189 pages, 1 leaf ; 31 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : B. Blackwell, 1924.
- Notes:
- Colophon of original: Thus endeth Ovyde hys booke of Methamorphose translated & fynysshed by me William Caxton at Westmestre the xxij. day of Appryll the yere of our lord m1.iiijc.liijxx. And the xx yere of the Regne of kynge Edward the fourth.
- Translation in prose made from a French version. Caxton's prologue and translation of books I-IX are missing in the Pepysian manuscript, the only one known at present.
- "Edited by Stephen Gaselee & H. F. B. Brett-Smith."
- "Three hundred and seventy-five copies ... have been printed on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper."
- Furness copy: "This is number 220."
- OCLC:
- 2043984
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