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[Opera] Volume 3

Ovid homepage
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.
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Shelf of Brotherton incunabula
Notes on incunabula (books printed in Europe before 1501) kept in Special Collections in the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds.
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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.
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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.
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Brotherton Ovid provenance
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.
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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.
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Chancellor 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.
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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.
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Georg 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.
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Bookplate of 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.
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Photograph of Lord Brotherton, 1926
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.
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Brotherton Ovid cutting with illustrations
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.
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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.
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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.
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Samuel Leigh Sotheby funerary monument
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.
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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.
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Ovid portrait from Nuremberg Chronicle
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 Roman poet Ovid.
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Metamorphoses
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.
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Pyramus and Thisbe
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.
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Brotherton Ovid annotations
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. Discover more about the annotations that accompany the printed text.
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Brotherton Ovid Heroides
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. Discover more about the annotations that accompany the Heroides
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Drawing from Amores
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. Discover more about the annotations that accompany the Amores
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Brotherton Ovid - Silenus and a satyr
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. Discover more about the annotations that accompany the Art of Love and Cures for Love
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Brotherton Ovid drawings
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. Discover more about the annotations that accompany the Fasti
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Brotherton Ovid drawings - Callisto and Arcas
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.
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Brotherton Ovid man on horseback
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. List of illustrations to the Fasti.
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Ovid Opera Volume 1. Detail from sixth front flyleaf verso
View a high-resolution digitised version of the first volume of Ovid's Opera, held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.
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Ovid Opera Volume 1. Detail from aa2r
View a high-resolution digitised version of the first volume of Ovid's Opera, held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.
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Ovid Opera Volume 1. Detail from A2r
View a high-resolution digitised version of the first volume of Ovid's Opera, held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.
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Pages

Pages

  1. Upper cover
  2. Inside front board and front pastedown (bookplate of William Horatio Crawford)
  3. First front flyleaf recto (bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton)
  4. First front flyleaf verso
  5. Second front flyleaf recto
  6. Second front flyleaf verso
  7. Third front flyleaf recto
  8. Third front flyleaf verso
  9. Fourth front flyleaf recto
  10. Fourth front flyleaf verso
  11. Fifth front flyleaf recto
  12. Fifth front flyleaf verso
  13. A1r (blank and unsigned)
  14. A1v (blank)
  15. A2r (signed A.i) - Janus
  16. A2v
  17. A3r (signed A.ii)
  18. A3v
  19. A4r (signed A.iii)
  20. A4v (signed A.iii)
  21. A5r (signed A.iiii) - ancient coin, showing Janus on one side an
  22. A5v - streams made to steam by Janus
  23. A6r - lobster (in fact Cancer, the crab); bird/lyre hybrid (in fact Lyra, the rising lyre)
  24. A6v - boar snuffling grain; goat and vine
  25. A7r - a horse and a dog (the Persians sacrifice horses to the Sun; Sabaeans sacrifice dogs to Trivia)
  26. A7v - an ass and a cockerel
  27. A8r
  28. A8v
  29. A9r - Cacus killed by Hercules
  30. A9v
  31. A10r - Aquarius
  32. A10v
  33. B1r (unsigned)
  34. B1v
  35. B2r - dolphin
  36. B2v - Arion and the dolphin
  37. B3r
  38. B3v - Callisto as a bear almost killed by her son
  39. B4r
  40. B4v - Snake, Bird and Cup (Corvus, Hydra and Crater constellations)
  41. B5r
  42. B5v
  43. B6r
  44. B6v
  45. B7r - girls beaten with thongs of goat-hide (Lupercalia origins)
  46. B7v - Romulus judging in a storm
  47. B8r - an oven (Fornacalia, feast of ovens); a tile wreathed with garlands
  48. B8v
  49. B9r
  50. B9v - Landowners sacrificing cakes and garlands to Terminus
  51. B10r
  52. B10v - Brutus kissing mother earth before the oracle
  53. C1r
  54. C1v
  55. C2r - Lucretia’s suicide; horse races
  56. C2v - Mars and Silvia
  57. C3r - Romulus and Remus suckled by a wolf
  58. C3v
  59. C4r - ‘manipulus’ (stick with bundle of straw)
  60. C4v
  61. C5r
  62. C5v
  63. C6r
  64. C6v - Numa and Faunus
  65. C7r - ‘ancyle’ (shield)
  66. C7v - Ampelus falls from a tree
  67. C8r - Pegasus
  68. C8v
  69. D1r - man on horseback (Equiria)
  70. D1v - Old man and woman (Anna)
  71. D2r
  72. D2v - Anna fleeing
  73. D3r
  74. D3v
  75. D4r - Silenus stung by bees (Bacchus discovering honey; satyrs)
  76. D4v - half bull half snake (Ophiotaurus)
  77. D5r
  78. D5v - ram carrying Phrixus; drowning of Helle
  79. D6r - Aeneas carries Anchises from Troy
  80. D6v
  81. D7r - the first lover serenading
  82. D7v - Judgement of Paris; Satyrs see Venus who covers herself with myrtle
  83. D8r
  84. D8v - procession of Cybele; Attis and Sagaritis
  85. E1r
  86. E1v - the three Cyclopes forging thunderbolts
  87. E2r
  88. E2v
  89. E3r - acorns
  90. E3v
  91. E4r - Celeus’s farm
  92. E4v
  93. E5r
  94. E5v
  95. E6r
  96. E6v - a rake; boy setting fire to a fox (Cerialia)
  97. E7r
  98. E7v
  99. E8r
  100. E8v - the walls of Rome are built as Romulus prays and Jupiter thunders assent; Remus is killed for jumping the walls
  101. F1r
  102. F1v - a sword rusted in its sheath; Icarian dog
  103. F2r
  104. F2v - a youth going to war on horseback
  105. F3r - old age (?)
  106. F3v - the she-goat; the horn of plenty; statue of Lar and dog
  107. F4r - bull with seven flames (Taurus); Hyas killed by a lioness
  108. F4v
  109. F5r
  110. F5v
  111. F6v
  112. F6r
  113. F7r - Chiron
  114. F7v
  115. F8r - the ghost of Remus appears
  116. F8v - a pot cooking beans
  117. G1r - Orion and scorpion
  118. G1v - Roman standard
  119. G2r - Europa and bull; custom of throwing effigy of old man into Tiber
  120. G2v - merchant’s rituals
  121. G3r - death of Pollux; Erigone’s dog; trumpet (Tubilustria)
  122. G3v
  123. G4r
  124. G4v
  125. G5r - harpies (in fact striges, ‘screech-owls’)
  126. G5v - Proca as a baby attacked by birds
  127. G6r
  128. G6v
  129. G7r - Temple of Vesta
  130. G7v - loaves hung on a mule as offering to Vesta
  131. G8r
  132. G8v - altar
  133. H1r - Vesta’s temple on fire
  134. H1v - dolphin
  135. H2r
  136. H2v
  137. H3r - Tullia drives a chariot over her father Servius Tullius
  138. H3v - flames on Servius’s head
  139. H4r - flute-players
  140. H4v
  141. H5r - Hippolytus and the bull/sea-monster; Jupiter strikes Aesculapius with lightning
  142. H5v
  143. H6r
  144. H6v
  145. H7r
  146. H7v
  147. H8r
  148. H8v
  149. I1r
  150. I1v
  151. I2r
  152. I2v
  153. I3r
  154. I3v
  155. I4r
  156. I4v
  157. I5r
  158. I5v
  159. I6r
  160. I6v
  161. I7r
  162. I7v
  163. I8r
  164. I8v
  165. K1r
  166. K1v
  167. K2r
  168. K2v
  169. K3r
  170. K3v
  171. K4r
  172. K4v
  173. K5r
  174. K5v
  175. K6r
  176. K6v
  177. K7r
  178. K7v
  179. K8r
  180. K8v
  181. L1r
  182. L1v
  183. L2r
  184. L2v
  185. L3r
  186. L3v
  187. L4r
  188. L4v
  189. L5r
  190. L5v
  191. L6r
  192. L6v
  193. L7r
  194. L7v
  195. L8r
  196. L8v
  197. M1r
  198. M1v
  199. M2r
  200. M2v
  201. M3r
  202. M3v
  203. M4r
  204. M4v
  205. M5r
  206. M5v
  207. M6r
  208. M6v
  209. M7r
  210. M7v
  211. M8r
  212. M8v
  213. N1r
  214. N1v
  215. N2r
  216. N2v
  217. N3r
  218. N3v
  219. N4r
  220. N4v
  221. N5r
  222. N5v
  223. N6r
  224. N6v
  225. N7r
  226. N7v
  227. N8r
  228. N8v
  229. O1r
  230. O1v
  231. O2r
  232. O2v
  233. O3r
  234. O3v
  235. O4r
  236. O4v
  237. O5r
  238. O5v
  239. O6r
  240. O6v
  241. O7r
  242. O7v
  243. O8r
  244. O8v
  245. P1r
  246. P1v
  247. P2r
  248. P2v
  249. P3r - the goddess Hope
  250. P3v
  251. P4r
  252. P4v
  253. P5r
  254. P5v
  255. P6r
  256. P6v
  257. P7r
  258. P7v
  259. P8r
  260. P8v
  261. Q1r
  262. Q1v
  263. Q2r
  264. Q2v
  265. Q3r
  266. Q3v
  267. Q4r
  268. Q4v
  269. Q5r
  270. Q5v
  271. Q6r
  272. Q6v
  273. Q7r
  274. Q7v
  275. Q8r
  276. Q8v
  277. R1r
  278. R1v
  279. R2r
  280. R2v
  281. R3r
  282. R3v
  283. R4r
  284. R4v
  285. R5r
  286. R5v
  287. R6r
  288. R6v
  289. R7r
  290. R7v
  291. R8r
  292. R8v
  293. S1r
  294. S1v
  295. S2r
  296. S2v
  297. S3r
  298. S3v
  299. S4r
  300. S4v
  301. S5r
  302. S5v
  303. S6r
  304. S6v
  305. S7r
  306. S7v
  307. S8r
  308. S8v
  309. T1r
  310. T1v
  311. T2r
  312. T2v
  313. T3r
  314. T3v
  315. T4r
  316. T4v
  317. T5r
  318. T5v
  319. T6r
  320. T6v
  321. T7r
  322. T7v
  323. T8r
  324. T8v
  325. V1r
  326. V1v
  327. V2r
  328. V2v
  329. V3r
  330. V3v
  331. V4r
  332. V4v
  333. V5r
  334. V5v
  335. V6r
  336. V6v
  337. V7r
  338. V7v
  339. V8r
  340. V8v
  341. V9r
  342. V9v
  343. V10r (blank)
  344. V10v (blank)
  345. Fourth back flyleaf recto
  346. Fourth back flyleaf verso
  347. Third back flyleaf recto
  348. Third back flyleaf verso
  349. Second back flyleaf recto
  350. Second back flyleaf verso
  351. First back flyleaf recto
  352. First back flyleaf verso
  353. Inside back board and bank pastedown
  354. Lower cover