Ovidius Naso, Publius: Opera.

Edited by Johannes Andreas de Bussis, bishop of Aleria.

Rome:  Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, [not before 18 July 1471]
Fol.   Part I:  [1-1710 188].   [178] leaves, the last blank;  Part II:  [1-310 46 58 610 78 86 9-1510 168 17-2410 25-268 27-3110 32-338].   [308] leaves, the first blank.
ISTC io00127000; Goff O127; BMC IV 14;  Bod-inc O-038.

Shelf-mark: Sp Coll Hunterian Be.1.7 (see main library entry for this item)
Provenance: Edward Harley (1689-1741), Lord Harley;  from 1724 2nd Earl of Oxford:  see Binding.
Thomas Osborne (d. 1767), bookseller:  purchased all the Harleian printed books;  Osborne’s price in pencil “£5-5-0” in top right-hand corner of first front flyleaf (which does not have the top corner excised);  no. 3848 (“Metamorphosis & Fasti”) in Osborne’s 'Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae', vol. 1 (London:  1743).
Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV:  Gaignat sale, 1769;  lot 1645 in Guillaume de Bure, 'Bibliographie instructive:  supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat', 2 vols (Paris:  1769).
William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist:  purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 30 livres 5 sous;  see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 24r).
University of Glasgow:  Hunterian bequest, 1807;  Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “AK.2.7”.
Binding: England, 18th-century gold-tooled red morocco, bound for Lord Harley by Jane Steel.   On both covers triple fillets form a frame, within which is a deep border made up of separate tools (though none  is amongst the Jane Steel tools illustrated in Nixon, ‘Harleian bindings’, pl. 10);  both covers have a lozenge-shaped centre-piece, made up of several individual tools, one of which (an acorn-shaped tool) is Nixon, ‘Harleian bindings’, pl. 10, Steel no. 3.   The head and foot of the spine are decorated with Nixon, ‘Harleian bindings’, pl. 10, Steel roll 2, and a roll not illustrated by Nixon;  the spine compartments are decorated with several individual tools including Nixon, ‘Harleian bindings’, pl. 10, Steel nos 1a and 1b;  edges and turn-ins decorated with Steel roll 2;  marbled endpapers.   Size:  347 x 242 mm.
Leaf size: 332 x 225 mm.
Annotations: Fairly frequent marginal annotations (mainly extracting keywords) in Part I in more than one 16th-century hand, together with occasional underlining and “nota” marks;  very occasional marginal annotations (extracting keywords) and underlining in the Fasti of Part II.
Decoration: In gatherings 1-3 of Part I a few initials supplied in red (with guide-letters visible in brown ink), together with paragraph marks, occasional running book numbers and selected capital strokes - no further decoration thereafter in Part I and none in Part II.
Imperfections: Part I containing the Metamorphoses is complete;  Part II contains the Fasti only i.e. wanting all before gathering 27 (ff. 1-242).

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