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Ovidio Nasone, Publio

The Metamorphoses of Ovid translated by W Caxton, 1968

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Information

New York, Braziller, 1968. 2 vols. 300 x 210 mm. Brown leather binding with gold impressions on the plates and on the back, within a black canvas case. Copy n.620.

Specialist Notes

Facsimile of the volume kept at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Books 1-9 are also called Philipps manuscript and discovered in 1964, books 10-15 are called Pepys manuscript and were donated to the college in 1703 by the English politician and writer Samuel Pepys (1633-1703).

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