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The Metamorphoses of Ovid / translated by William Caxton, 1480.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio LatC Ov403 Eg11 480c 1868 v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Standardized Title:
- Metamorphoses. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Fables, Latin--Translations into English.
- Fables, Latin.
- Metamorphosis--Mythology--Poetry.
- Metamorphosis.
- Metamorphosis--Mythology.
- Mythology, Classical--Poetry.
- Mythology, Classical.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : color illustrations, portrait ; 31 cm (folio)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : G. Braziller, in association with Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1968.
- Contents:
- V. 1. Books 1-9, the Phillipps manuscript
- v. 2. Books 10-15, the Pepys manuscript.
- Notes:
- In prose. Translated from the same French moralized version that Colard Mansion printed at Bruges in 1484. Cf. Ovyde, hys booke of Methamorphose, books x-xv, 1924, p. xxiii.
- A color facsimile of the manuscript now in the possesion of Magdalene College, Cambrige in its entirety.
- "The paper used was supplied by the Hale Paper Company, London; it has been specially made on the cylinder mould machine at Wookey Hole, Somerset, to resemble the original as closely as possible, and reproduces some of the original watermarks. Colour separation by Schwitter Ltd., Zurich. Printing by Jarrold & Sons Ltd., Norwich. The binding---by Wigmore Bindery, Ltd., London---is as close a reproduction as possible of the binding used by Pepys for Books 10-15. About 3/4 inch all round was cut from the sheets of Books 10-15 before they were bound for Samuel Pepys. The Phillipps manuscript is therefore now the larger. Both volumes of this facsimile edition are in the larger size."--Colophon at end of vol. 2.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy bound in full brwon leather with gilt medallions on covers; title stamped in gold on red label on spine; boxed in black cloth covered bookboard.
- Culture Class Collection copy is "copy no. 320".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses. English. Metamorphoses of Ovid.
- OCLC:
- 1729929
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