Mr. Wodhull paid "Edwards" for this copy, in 1799, £14.14s. Bound by
Mrs. Weir in green morocco extra, gilt edges. Leaf 9 × 6 in.


18. OVIDIUS NASO, PUBLIUS. Metamorphoses. Parma, Andreas Portilia, 15
May, 1480.

_Fol. 1, blank_, _2^a_: TABVLAE F∀BVLARVM (_sic_) OVIDII
METAMORPHOSEOS. _Fol. 6^a_: Domitius Calderinus Veronensis. [D]E Ouidii
uita nihil a nobis i_n_ hoc loco scribe_n_du_m_ _est_. _Fol. 7^a_: P.
OVIDII NASONIS SVLMONENSIS METAMORPHOSEOS LIBER PRIMVS. _Fol. 187^b_,
COLOPHON: FINIS Impressum Parmæ Opera Et Impensis Andre_æ_ Portili_æ_
.M.CCCC.LXXX. Idibus Maiis Ioanne Galeazio Maria Mediolani Illustrissimo
Duce Regna_n_te Fœliciter. _Fol. 188, blank._

Folio. Sign. a^6, b-q^8, r^{10}, s-y^8, z^6, &^6. 188 unnumbered
leaves, the first and last blank, 40 lines to the page, roman
letter. Three- to eight-line spaces, with guide-letters, left for
the initials of the fifteen books. Hain *12160.

First initial of each book supplied in red; heading of each book and
each fable underlined in red; initial-strokes in every verse and
paragraph-marks in red. Without the last blank leaf.

Andreas Portilia was the first printer at Parma, where his press was
established in 1472 and continued, with two brief transfers to Bologna
and Reggio, till 1486.

Mr. Wodhull's copy, for which he paid, at the sale of Dr. Chauncy's