OVIDIUS NASO PUBLIUS Fasti 1492

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OVIDIUS NASO, PUBLIUS. Fasti. With commentary by Paolo Marso. 168 leaves. Roman type. Folio, 291x209 mm, old limp vellum with calligraphic spine title in ink, missing top portion of backstrip and rear cover; approximately the first 20 and last 15 leaves heavily gnawed in blank outer margins and corners, title page from a small-format 16th-century edition of the Fasti mounted on the blank recto of the first leaf and surrounded by early ink scrawls. (Venice: T[roilus] Z[ani] P[resbyter, partner of Petrus de Quarengis], 27 October 1492)

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Tenth and last 15th-century edition of Ovid''s poem on the Roman calendar, which originally appeared in the later 1470s, and fifth edition with the commentary by Marso. This is the first of only two productions by this printer. BMC VII, 1141; Goff O-174.