1590 Painted BRASS ART Binding OVID Works Poetry Roman Mythology Fastor Tristia

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“I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.”

Ovid, Metamorphoses

 

Ovid was a 1st-century BC Roman poet most-known for his poems on mythology. This 1590 printing of the works of Ovid includes all of his most famous works including ‘Fastor’, ‘Tristia’, ‘Epistulae ex Ponto’, and ‘Consolatio ad Liviam’. These works were some of the most important works of Roman poetry in the 1st-century covering classical mythology and life in Ancient Rome.

 

This particular issue is notable for having a unique binding, unlike others of its kind. It features a painted, brass illustration of a papal blessing scene.

 

Item number: #26581

Price: $1250

 

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1590 Painted BRASS ART Binding OVID Works Poetry Roman Mythology Fastor Tristia

 

“I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.”

Ovid, Metamorphoses

 

Ovid was a 1st-century BC Roman poet most-known for his poems on mythology. This 1590 printing of the works of Ovid includes all of his most famous works including ‘Fastor’, ‘Tristia’, ‘Epistulae ex Ponto’, and ‘Consolatio ad Liviam’. These works were some of the most important works of Roman poetry in the 1st-century covering classical mythology and life in Ancient Rome.

 

This particular issue is notable for having a unique binding, unlike others of its kind. It features a painted, brass illustration of a papal blessing scene.

 

Item number: #26581

Price: $1250

 

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  1. Ouidi Nasonis opera, quæ exstant, omnia : primo tomo continentur …

 

Francofurdi [Frankfurt am Main]: Ex officina typographica Ioannis Wecheli, 1590.

 

Details:

  • Collation: Complete with all pages
    • Fastorum – 158, [2]
    • Tristium – [161]-504
  • References: USTC 681895
  • Language: Latin
  • Binding: Vellum; tight and secure
    • Includes two functional clasps
  • Size: ~5in X 3.5in (13cm x 9cm)

 

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Categories

Classical Greco-Roman

Literature

Authors

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Printing Date

16th Century

Language

Latin

Binding

Vellum

Book Condition

Excellent

Collation

Complete