Moral Metamorphoses
OVID; Georg SABINUS, editor.
Metamorphoses seu fabulae poeticae earumque interpretatio ethica, physica, et historica, Georgii Sabini … Accessit etiam ex Natalis Comitis Mythologiis de fabularum utilitate, varietate, partibus & scriptoribus; deque apologorum, fabularum, annorumque differentia, tractatio … Frankfurt, Nikolaus Hoffmann, 1608.
16mo in 8s, pp. [xxxii], 550, [2 (blank)]; woodcut device to title, woodcut initials, typographic head- and tailpieces; evenly toned, a few small stains, slight damage to inner margin )()(1, small losses to lower margin of Ee6–8, a few leaves cut slightly short at tail before binding (affecting signature on Mm2), but a good copy; bound in contemporary vellum over boards, yapp fore-edges, spine later lettered in ink, vestigial ties to fore-edge, edges speckled red; a little dust-stained, pastedowns torn along turn-ins; ink ownership inscription ‘Th[–] van Doorne’ to title-page dated Ghent, 1934.
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Metamorphoses seu fabulae poeticae earumque interpretatio ethica, physica, et historica, Georgii Sabini … Accessit etiam ex Natalis Comitis Mythologiis de fabularum utilitate, varietate, partibus & scriptoribus; deque apologorum, fabularum, annorumque differentia, tractatio …
A pocket edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses with extensive moral and allegorical interpretations by the neo-Latin poet Georg Sabinus.
Sabinus (1508–1560) originally published his commentary on the Metamorphoses as a stand-alone text in 1555; subsequently it was combined with Ovid’s verse to create a pocket-sized commentated and practical edition, with headings to break up the text, a comprehensive index, and printed marginalia. This is one of numerous editions produced from 1589 onwards; more recent interest in Sabinus’ interpretations has resulted in a 2019 edition published by De Gruyter.
We find only one copy in North America (Illinois) and only one in the UK (Eton).
VD17 23:754013L; not in USTC.