Shelfmark
He2.5.02 - He2.5.03
Author
Uniform title
[Metamorphoses. English]
Title
The metamorphoses of Ovid / translated by William Caxton, 1480.
Varying form of title
Spine title: Ovid's Metamorph. English'd by Caxton 1480
Publication, distribution, etc.
New York : G. Braziller, in association with Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1968.
Physical description
2 v. : col. ill., port. ; 31 cm.
Note
Color facsimile of the manuscript.
Note
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.
Formatted contents note
Contents: v. 1. Books 1-9, the Phillipps manuscript. -- v. 2. Books 10-15, the Pepys manuscript.
Binding
20th century brown polished leather binding; gilt coat of arms on covers; gilt spine title within a red compartment; gilt decoration on spine; housed in slip case.
Subject
Ovid, 43 BC - 17 or 18 A.D Metamorphoses.
Genre/Form
Facsimiles.
Added entry--name
Braziller, George, 1916 - 2017 publisher.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Magdalene College (University of Cambridge) publisher.
Added entry--place
United States New York.
Language code
eng fre lat
Identifier
B45274