Ovidius Naso. La Metamorphose d'Ovide Figurée, Lyon, Jean de Tournes, [1557 or 1583, probably 1583], 8vo, woodcut illustrations within borders by Bernard Salomon, interleaved copy with manuscript poems in Latin (Enarrationes and Allegoriae) on the blank leaves, in a 16th century hand (title holed with loss of date, dampstained, lacking D3 and M4), contemporary vellum.

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Ovidius Naso. La Metamorphose d'Ovide Figurée, Lyon, Jean de Tournes, [1557 or 1583, probably 1583], 8vo, woodcut illustrations within borders by Bernard Salomon, interleaved copy with manuscript poems in Latin (Enarrationes and Allegoriae) on the blank leaves, in a 16th century hand (title holed with loss of date, dampstained, lacking D3 and M4), contemporary vellum.

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The Enarrationes & Allegoriae, in manuscript, correspond partly to the edition published by Spreng in Augsburg in 1563.

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