Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University

by Addison Van Name

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, 2a: TABVLAE F∀BVLARVM (sic) OVIDII METAMORPHOSEOS. Fol. 6a: Domitius Calderinus Veronensis. [D]E Ouidii uita nihil a nobis in hoc loco scribendum est. Fol. 7a: P. OVIDII NASONIS SVLMONENSIS METAMORPHOSEOS LIBER PRIMVS. Fol. 187b, Colophon: FINIS Impressum Parmæ Opera Et Impensis Andreæ Portiliæ .M.CCCC.LXXX. Idibus Maiis Ioanne Galeazio Maria Mediolani Illustrissimo Duce Regnante Fœliciter. Fol. 188, blank.

Folio. Sign. a6, b-q8, r10, s-y8, z6, &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 library in 1790, £2. Bound in red morocco, with rich gold tooling on back and sides, and book-plate of Charles Chauncy, M.D. (1706-1777). Leaf 12 × 8 in.

19. PIUS II. (AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI). De duobus amantibus. [Paris, Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and Martin Crantz, 1472.]

Fol. 1: Aeneæ siluii poætæ laureati, in hystoriam de duobus amantibus præfatio prima ad perquam generosum militem Casparem Slik fœliciter incipit. Fol. 2b: Aeneæ siluii in hystoriam de duobus amantibus praefatio secunda ad Martinum Sozinum, Senensem, iuris utriusque perspicacissimum interpretem iocunde incipit. Fol. 4a: Aeneæ siluii de duobus amantibus hystoria perquam iocunde incipit! Fol. 44b: Vale. ex Vienna quinto nonas Iulii. anno Millesimo quadringentesimo quadragesimo quarto; Colophon: Aeneæ Siluii poæte laureati de duobus amantibus eurialo et lucresia, finit fœliciter. Fol. 45, 46, blank.