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OVIDIUS NASO, PUBLIUS. Metamorphoseos libri XV. Commentary by Raffaele Regio, Placidus Lactantius, and Pietro Lavinio. Title in red and black within woodcut ornamental border; 62 woodcut illustrations, including large diagram of the winds on AA10v. [10], 172 leaves. Folio, 275x196 mm, limp liturgical manuscript vellum, recased, endpapers renewed; contents browned, dampstained, and dampwrinkled, marginal soiling, worming in blank lower inner corners in middle of volume, scattered dark stains, genitalia inked out in a few illustrations, hole in blank gutter of A1, hole through O2 causing text and image loss, last leaf torn at top and mounted with substantial text loss. (Venice: Elisabetta Rusconi, 1527)
This is one of a small number of works produced by Elisabetta Rusconi between 1524 and 1527, following the death of her husband, the printer Giorgio Rusconi, and the departure of her sons from the business. Cf. Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 338 (1517 edition).
