List of illustrations to the Fasti

The Brotherton Ovid

Learn about the remarkable Brotherton Collection copy of the works of Ovid, printed in Parma in 1477. Discover who owned the books, and who might have added the hundreds of marginal annotations and colourful illustrations.

Incunabula – the first European printed books

Notes on incunabula (books printed in Europe before 1501) kept in Special Collections in the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds.

The Brotherton Ovid

Notes on the unique aspects of three incunabula (books printed in Europe before 1501) kept in Special Collections in the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. The books contain the works of the Roman poet Ovid and were printed by Stephanus Coralllus in Parma in 1477.

Condition and binding

Notes on the condition and binding of three incunabula (books printed in Europe before 1501) kept in Special Collections in the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. The books contain the works of the Roman poet Ovid and were printed by Stephanus Coralllus in Parma in 1477.

Provenance - who owned the books?

Notes on three incunabula (books printed in Europe before 1501) kept in Special Collections in the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. The books contain the works of the Roman poet Ovid and were printed by Stephanus Coralllus in Parma in 1477. FInd out more about the provenance of the books.

Dietrich von Plieningen

Dietrich von Plieningen was a former owner of three incunabula (books printed in Europe before 1501) kept in Special Collections in the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. The books contain the works of the Roman poet Ovid and were printed by Stephanus Coralllus in Parma in 1477.

Leonhard von Eck

Leonhard von Eck was a former owner of three incunabula (books printed in Europe before 1501) kept in Special Collections in the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. The books contain the works of the Roman poet Ovid and were printed by Stephanus Coralllus in Parma in 1477.

Oswald von Eck

Oswald von Eck was a was a former owner of one of the items held at Special Collections at Leeds University, a three volume set of the works of Ovid printed in Parma in 1477. He added the numerous annotations and drawings that appear in the margins.

Georg Franz Burkhard Kloss

Georg Franz Burkhard Kloss was a former owner of three incunabula (books printed in Europe before 1501) kept in Special Collections in the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. The books contain the works of the Roman poet Ovid and were printed by Stephanus Coralllus in Parma in 1477.

William Horatio Crawford

William Horatio Crawford was a former owner of three incunabula (books printed in Europe before 1501) kept in Special Collections in the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. The books contain the works of the Roman poet Ovid and were printed by Stephanus Coralllus in Parma in 1477.

Edward Allen Brotherton

Edward Allen Brotherton acquired one of the most remarkable items held at Special Collections in the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. This set of three incunabula (books printed in Europe before 1501) contains the works of the Roman poet Ovid. The books were printed by Stephanus Coralllus in Parma in 1477.

Brotherton Ovid cutting with illustrations

Other individuals associated with the books

People associated wtih the copy of the works of Ovid printed in Parma in 1477 and held at Special Collections at the University of Leeds.

Sebastian Linck

Sebastian Linck is associated with three incunabula (books printed in Europe before 1501) kept in Special Collections in the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. The books contain the works of the Roman poet Ovid and were printed by Stephanus Coralllus in Parma in 1477.

Philipp Melanchthon

Philipp Melanchthon is associated with three incunabula (books printed in Europe before 1501) kept in Special Collections in the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. The books contain the works of the Roman poet Ovid and were printed by Stephanus Coralllus in Parma in 1477.

Samuel Leigh Sotheby

Samuel Leigh Sotheby is associated with three incunabula (books printed in Europe before 1501) kept in Special Collections in the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. The books contain the works of the Roman poet Ovid and were printed by Stephanus Coralllus in Parma in 1477.

J. Alexander Symington

J. Alexander Symington is associated with three incunabula (books printed in Europe before 1501) kept in Special Collections in the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. The books contain the works of the Roman poet Ovid and were printed by Stephanus Coralllus in Parma in 1477.

Ovid the poet

The works of Ovid

Notes on the works of Ovid. Part of a digital resource on three incunabula (books printed in Europe before 1501) kept in Special Collections in the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. The books contain the works of the Roman poet Ovid and were printed by Stephanus Coralllus in Parma in 1477.

Medieval and Renaissance reception

Part of a digital resource on three incunabula (books printed in Europe before 1501) kept in Special Collections in the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. The books contain the works of the Roman poet Ovid and were printed by Stephanus Coralllus in Parma in 1477. Learn more about the reception of Ovid's works in the medieval and Renaissance periods.

The annotations

Heroides

Amores

Art of Love and Cures for Love

Fasti

Brotherton Ovid drawings - Callisto and Arcas

The drawings

Notes on the visual marginalia in three incunabula (books printed in Europe before 1501) kept in Special Collections in the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. The books contain the works of the Roman poet Ovid and were printed by Stephanus Coralllus in Parma in 1477. Discover more about the drawings that accompany the printed text.

List of illustrations to the Fasti

[Opera] Volume 1

View a high-resolution digitised version of the first volume of Ovid's Opera, held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.

[Opera] Volume 2

View a high-resolution digitised version of the first volume of Ovid's Opera, held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.

[Opera] Volume 3

View a high-resolution digitised version of the first volume of Ovid's Opera, held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.

A2r (signed A.i) - Janus
A5r (signed A.iiii): ancient coin, showing Janus on one side and a ship on the other
A5v: streams made to steam by Janus
A6r: lobster (in fact Cancer, the crab)
A6r: bird/lyre hybrid (in fact Lyra, the rising lyre)
A6v: boar snuffling grain
A6v: goat and vine
A7r: a horse and a dog (the Persians sacrifice horses to the Sun; Sabaeans sacrifice dogs to Trivia)
A7v: an ass and a cockerel
A9r: Cacus killed by Hercules
A10r: Aquarius
B2r: dolphin
B2v: Arion and the dolphin
B3v: Callisto as a bear almost killed by her son
B4v: Snake, Bird and Cup (Corvus, Hydra and Crater constellations)
B7r: girls beaten with thongs of goat-hide (Lupercalia origins)
B7v: Romulus judging in a storm
B8r: an oven (Fornacalia, feast of ovens)
B8r: a tile wreathed with garlands
B9v: Landowners sacrificing cakes and garlands to Terminus
B10v: Brutus kissing mother earth before the oracle
C2r: Lucretia’s suicide
C2r: horse races
C2v: Mars and Silvia
C3r: Romulus and Remus suckled by a wolf
C4r: ‘manipulus’ (stick with bundle of straw)
C6v: Numa and Faunus
C7r: ‘ancyle’ (shield)
C7v: Ampelus falls from a tree
C8r: Pegasus
D1r: man on horseback (Equiria)
D1v: Old man and woman (Anna)
D2v: Anna fleeing
D4r: Silenus stung by bees (Bacchus discovering honey; satyrs)
D4v: half bull half snake (Ophiotaurus)
D5v: ram carrying Phrixus; drowning of Helle
D6r: Aeneas carries Anchises from Troy
D7r: the first lover serenading
D7v: Judgement of Paris
D7v: Satyrs see Venus who covers herself with myrtle
D8v: procession of Cybele
D8v: Attis and Sagaritis
E1v: the three Cyclopes forging thunderbolts
E3r: acorns
E4r: Celeus’s farm
E6v: a rake; boy setting fire to a fox (Cerialia)
E8v: the walls of Rome are built as Romulus prays and Jupiter thunders assent
E8v: Remus is killed for jumping the walls
F1v: a sword rusted in its sheath; Icarian dog
F2v: a youth going to war on horseback (this illustration is only incidental to the text, but is one of the finest)
F3r: old age (?)
F3v: the she-goat; the horn of plenty
F3v: statue of Lar and dog
F4r: bull with seven flames (Taurus)
F4r: Hyas killed by a lioness
F7r: Chiron
F8r: the ghost of Remus appears
F8v: a pot cooking beans
G1r: Orion and scorpion
G1v: Roman standard
G2r: Europa and bull
G2r: custom of throwing effigy of old man into Tiber
G2v: merchant’s rituals
G3r: death of Pollux
G3r: Erigone’s dog
G3r: trumpet (Tubilustria)
G5r: harpies (in fact striges, ‘screech-owls’)
G5v: Proca as a baby attacked by birds
G7r: Temple of Vesta
G7v: loaves hung on a mule as offering to Vesta
G8v: altar
H1r: Vesta’s temple on fire
H1v: dolphin
H3r: Tullia drives a chariot over her father Servius Tullius
H3v: flames on Servius’s head
H4r: flute-players
H5r: Hippolytus and the bull/sea-monster
H5r: Jupiter strikes Aesculapius with lightning

Dr Paul White