OVIDE. P. Ovidii Nasonis, Fastorum lib. VI, Tristium lib. V, De Ponto lib. IIII, In Ibin, Ad Liviam... Rothomagi, apud J. Osmontium, 1611.

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OVIDE. P. Ovidii Nasonis, Fastorum lib. VI, Tristium lib. V, De Ponto lib. IIII, In Ibin, Ad Liviam... Rothomagi, apud J. Osmontium, 1611.
OVID. P. Ovidii Nasonis, Fastorum lib. VI, Tristium lib. V, De Ponto lib. IIII, In Ibin, Ad Liviam... Rothomagi, apud J. Osmontium, 1611. In-16, 531 p., [sign. A-Z 8, Aa-Kk 8, Ll 7 (of 8)], contemporary havana basane, spine with 3 nerves, gilt title, ornamented caissons with fleur-de-lys in fleurons, boards decorated in the Duseuil style with fleur-de-lys at the corners, gilt edges (3 corners dulled, snags on the upper board, to the edge of a headband and on a nerve, 3 negligible worm holes on the spine; small tear without damage and small ink stains on the title, fine sporadic wetness in the margins of a few pages, rust hole in the margin p.403). Extremely rare edition, we have not found any other copy in the catalogs of public collections and bibliographies consulted. According to the historian Hélène Cazès, Jean Osmont published in Rouen in 1603 "the first exclusively Ovidian collection of school extracts". This small, selective and watered-down edition gave the poet an image that suited the morality of the time. For this ample edition of 1611, which seems intended for a more cultivated public and inhabited by the triumphant humanism at the time, the editor claims several scholars, and he mentions only two prestigious names of it: Aldus Manutius, and Andrea Navagero (1483-1529) who was his collaborator in Venice for the editions of classical texts. Ambassador to Francis I, Navagero died in Blois. Pages 187-210 are not numbered: they contain an astronomical calendar that may help in understanding the Fastes; the last two f. of this sequence are a blank, and a special title page preceding the Tristium, with the same address and date. The last f. (Ll8), probably blank or with the bookseller's mark, has not been preserved. The copy was bound with luxury at the time. (H. Cazès, " Les bonnes fortunes d'Ovide au XVIe siècle ", in Lectures d'Ovide, Paris, Belles Lettres, 2003, p.244). Provenance : a Parisian Jesuit college (old handwritten mention on the title).
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