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Columbia, University of Missouri, Ellis Library, Special Collections
RARE RES PA6519.M2 1550
 
 Description:  —  ff. 612  —  Quarter bound, s. XVIII; boards covered with marbelized paper.
 Number of Parts: 1  —  Number of Images Available: 17
 
 
 

Part  1: ff. 1-612v

 
Description:  — Paper  — 302 x 205
Country: ItalyCardinal point:
Region: City:
Assigned Date: s. XVI2 Searchable Date Range: 1550-1599
Dated by scribe: NoInscribed Date:
Document: NoNumber of Scribes:
Alphabet: Latin
Script: Humanistic
Artist: Giacomo Franco?
Figurative Decoration: 15 half-page framed pen and ink drawings with characters labeled by name in Italian.
Notes: Giacomo Franco's dates: 1550-1620.
Number of Texts:  1
 
 
 
Text 1 of 1: ff. 1-612v
 
Author: Ovid
Title:  Metamorphoses
Language(s): Latin
Notes: Interlinear Italian translation on first 24 leaves
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  • f. 1r. Title for Bk. 1 in square capitals.
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  • f. 2r. Bk 1: Creation by God the Father, with all the animals, including an elephant; Jupiter hurling the giant under Sicily; Deucalion and Pyrrha; Apollo killing the Python; Daphne and Apollo; Io, Argus and Mercury.
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  • f. 43r. Bk 2: Phaethon beseaching Apollo; the chariot plunging, and Jupiter; Phaethon's sisters as poplar trees and his friend, Cygnus; the bear Callisto hunted by Arcas; Coronis represented by a crow; Ocyrhoe as a mare; Battus and Mercury; rape of Europa.
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  • f. 87r. Bk 3: Cadmus sowing dragon's teeth; Diana bathing, Acteon and his dogs; Semele hated by Juno; Tiresias separating mating snakes; Narcissus; Bacchus kidnapped and sailors changed to dolphins; Bacchantes and Pentheus.
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  • f. 125r. Bk 4: Pyramus and Thisbe; Leuconoe and Clytie as plants; Salmacis and Hermaphroditus entwined; the daughters of Minyas turned to bats; Ino plunging into the sea with Melicerta; Cadmus and his wife turned into snakes; Perseus changing Atlas to stone.
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  • f. 164r. Bk 5: Wedding battle between Phineus and Perseus; Ceres flinging water at Stellio turning him into a newt; Cyane melting; Arethusa pursued by Alpheus; the Sirens; the lynx that was Lyncus;the Pierides as magpies.
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  • f. 197r. Bk 6: Pallas striking Arachne, with a spider on the wall; Apollo & Diana killing the 14 offspring of Niobe; peasants turned to frogs for denying water to Latona; the flayed Marsyas as a stream; Procne & Philomela as birds fleeing Tereus; Calais & Zetes.
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  • f. 223r. Bk 7: Jason with herbs of Medea overcoming bulls, soldiers, & dragon to win Golden Fleece; Medea rejuvenating Aeson; Pelias killed by his daughters; Medea in her chariot; flaming palace & Medea with her sons; Aegeus at banquet; Cephalus killing Procris.
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  • f. 270r. Bk 8: Scylla following Minos' ship as Nisus looks on; Bacchus rescuing Ariadne; Daedalus throwing Perdix off tower; Meleager dying as his sisters turn into guinea hens; the nymphs Echinades as islands; Baucis and Philemon as trees.
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  • f. 316r. Bk 9: Hercules fighting Achelous in the form of a bull for the hand of Deianeira, daughter of Oeneus; Hercules killing the hydra, wrestling with Antaeus, allowing Atlas to place the weight of the heavens on his shoulders.
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  • f. 358r. Bk 10: Orpheus & Eurydice; Cyparissus & his stag; Jupiter as an eagle & Ganymede; the murderous Cypriots punished with horns; the Propoetides; Pygmalion & his statue; Cinyras & Myrrha; Venus & Adonis; Atalanta & Hippomenes; Proserpina & Menthe.
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  • f. 397r. Bk 11: Orpheus killed by Ciconian women; Bacchus & Midas, & his golden gift, & prefering Pan's music to Apollo's; Neptune & Apollo by Troy; Hector & Hesione; Peleus & Thetis; Daedalion as hawk; wolf in Peleus' herd; Ceyx & Alcyone; Aesacus as diving bird.
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  • f. 438r. Bk 12: Omen of snake eating birds; Ulysses, Achilles, Menelaus and other at sacrifice; sacrifice of Iphigenia; house of Rumor; Achilles & Cygnus; battle of the Lapithae and the Centaurs; Ajax & Hector.
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  • f. 471r. Bk 13: Council to decide winner of Achilles' arms; suicide of Ajax; Trojan women prisoners; Astyanax killed; Polymestor killing Polydorus; ghost of Achilles; sacrifice of Polyxena; Aeneas, Anchises & Ascanius; Anius' daughters; Polyphemus; Galatea & Acis
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  • f. 522r. Bk 14: Glaucus & Scylla; Glaucus & Circe; Circe turning Scylla into dog-like being; Cercropians; Sibyl leading Aeneas to Anchises's shade; Ulysses & Polyphemus; Circe & Picus; Caieta; a shepherd turned into a tree; Vertumnus & Pomona; Iphis & Anaxarete.
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  • f. 568r. Bk 15: Numa Pompilius; city of Crotona; Pythagoras teaching; Hippolytus brought back to life by Aesculapius; Egeria as a fountain; Cipus outside of Rome; Roman ambassadors asking for Aesculapius; Aesculapius as a huge snake leaving his shrine in Greece.
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  • f. 612r. End of the volume.
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