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OVIDIUS NASO, Publius (43 B.C.-17 A.D.). Fastorum libri diligenti emendatione. Commentary by Antonius Constantius and Paulus Marsus. Toscolano: Alessandro dei Paganini, 1527.
4° (210 x 144 mm). Collation: AA10 A-S12 T-V8. 242 leaves. Semi-italic type, text within double-column commentary surround, shoulder notes. Eight-part woodcut white-on-black strapwork title border, woodcut vignettes in 2 or 3 compartments at the head of each of the six books, the first nearly half-page, the rest smaller, white-on-black woodcut initials. (Small repairs or reinforcement at head and tail of title-leaf gutter, mostly marginal dampstaining, occasional browning.) 17th-century vellum over flexible pasteboard (a bit soiled and stained).
Provenance: "Antonini ...", 17th(?)-century ownership inscription partially effaced on lower cover, effaced inscriptions on upper cover, initials on front free endleaf.
Paganini, active in both Venice and Toscolano in the 1520s, had published a series of small-format editions of the classics (Horace, Pomponius Mela, Ovid, Petrarch) in 1521, and in 1526-27 he continued the progam in quarto format, using his distinctive semi-italic type, with woodcuts copied from earlier Venetian editions. The woodcuts of this edition are fairly crude reduced copies in reverse of the cuts from Tacuino's 1508 and 1520 editions of the Fasti.
BM/STC Italian, p. 481; Sander 5307.
4° (210 x 144 mm). Collation: AA10 A-S12 T-V8. 242 leaves. Semi-italic type, text within double-column commentary surround, shoulder notes. Eight-part woodcut white-on-black strapwork title border, woodcut vignettes in 2 or 3 compartments at the head of each of the six books, the first nearly half-page, the rest smaller, white-on-black woodcut initials. (Small repairs or reinforcement at head and tail of title-leaf gutter, mostly marginal dampstaining, occasional browning.) 17th-century vellum over flexible pasteboard (a bit soiled and stained).
Provenance: "Antonini ...", 17th(?)-century ownership inscription partially effaced on lower cover, effaced inscriptions on upper cover, initials on front free endleaf.
Paganini, active in both Venice and Toscolano in the 1520s, had published a series of small-format editions of the classics (Horace, Pomponius Mela, Ovid, Petrarch) in 1521, and in 1526-27 he continued the progam in quarto format, using his distinctive semi-italic type, with woodcuts copied from earlier Venetian editions. The woodcuts of this edition are fairly crude reduced copies in reverse of the cuts from Tacuino's 1508 and 1520 editions of the Fasti.
BM/STC Italian, p. 481; Sander 5307.