Author: NEAPOLIS, Carolus.
Title: Anaptyxis ad fastos P. Ovidii Nasonis.Antwerp, Balthasar I Moretus, 1639. Folio (ca. 31 x 21 cm). With the title page engraved by Jacob Neeffs after a design by Erasmus Quellinus II, Plantin's large woodcut device on the verso of the final leaf, several woodcuts in the text, several woodcut ornamental tailpieces, and numerous woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled reddish-brown leather, sewn on 4 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, with a brown leather title label on the spine lettered in gold, the Jesuit monogram "IHS" central in the large lozenge-shaped centrepiece on both boards, gilt edges, remnants of ties.
Description: [1], [1 blank], [30], 304, [30], [2 blank] pp.Rare first edition of this extensive commentary on Ovid’s Fasti, written by the Italian philologist Carolus Neapolis (1614-1644). He was born in Palermo and was employed as chamberlain by Philip IV, King of Spain (1605-1665). A second edition appeared almost a century after the present first edition, it was published in 1735 by Onuphrius Gramignani in Palermo.Ovid’s Fasti, in English also known as The Book of Days or On the Roman Calendar, is a Latin didactic poem written in elegiac couplets, consisting of six books covering the months of the Roman and Julian calendar. It is structured as a series of eyewitness reports and interviews with Roman deities, who explain the origins of the Roman holidays and associated customs. It became an important source for the study of the religion in ancient Rome and it inspired many artists in the 15th through 18th centuries to the creation of their mythological paintings.Our copy includes the final blank leaf (2T4), often lacking in other copies. The allegorical title-page was engraved by the Flemish printmaker Jacob Neeffs (1604-after 1667) after a design by the Flemish artist Erasmus Quellinus the Younger (1607-1678).With a 20th-century book plate showing the monogram “JE” (from the Evelyn Library) mounted on the front pastedown, an early manuscript annotation in black ink above. The head of the spine is chipped, the binding is slightly worn along the extremities, lacking the blank first free flyleaf, occasional slight spotting. Otherwise in very good condition.l BM 18, p. 332; BM 19, p. 425; Graesse V, p. 78 (‘Commentaire important’); STCV 6687720 (6 copies); USTC 1004363; WorldCat 258128261, 635166369, 750451146, 901942798, 974116774.
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Title: Anaptyxis ad fastos P. Ovidii Nasonis.Antwerp, Balthasar I Moretus, 1639. Folio (ca. 31 x 21 cm). With the title page engraved by Jacob Neeffs after a design by Erasmus Quellinus II, Plantin's large woodcut device on the verso of the final leaf, several woodcuts in the text, several woodcut ornamental tailpieces, and numerous woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled reddish-brown leather, sewn on 4 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, with a brown leather title label on the spine lettered in gold, the Jesuit monogram "IHS" central in the large lozenge-shaped centrepiece on both boards, gilt edges, remnants of ties.
Description: [1], [1 blank], [30], 304, [30], [2 blank] pp.Rare first edition of this extensive commentary on Ovid’s Fasti, written by the Italian philologist Carolus Neapolis (1614-1644). He was born in Palermo and was employed as chamberlain by Philip IV, King of Spain (1605-1665). A second edition appeared almost a century after the present first edition, it was published in 1735 by Onuphrius Gramignani in Palermo.Ovid’s Fasti, in English also known as The Book of Days or On the Roman Calendar, is a Latin didactic poem written in elegiac couplets, consisting of six books covering the months of the Roman and Julian calendar. It is structured as a series of eyewitness reports and interviews with Roman deities, who explain the origins of the Roman holidays and associated customs. It became an important source for the study of the religion in ancient Rome and it inspired many artists in the 15th through 18th centuries to the creation of their mythological paintings.Our copy includes the final blank leaf (2T4), often lacking in other copies. The allegorical title-page was engraved by the Flemish printmaker Jacob Neeffs (1604-after 1667) after a design by the Flemish artist Erasmus Quellinus the Younger (1607-1678).With a 20th-century book plate showing the monogram “JE” (from the Evelyn Library) mounted on the front pastedown, an early manuscript annotation in black ink above. The head of the spine is chipped, the binding is slightly worn along the extremities, lacking the blank first free flyleaf, occasional slight spotting. Otherwise in very good condition.l BM 18, p. 332; BM 19, p. 425; Graesse V, p. 78 (‘Commentaire important’); STCV 6687720 (6 copies); USTC 1004363; WorldCat 258128261, 635166369, 750451146, 901942798, 974116774.
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- Book number: ABC_49045
- Book number: ABC_49045