The Metamorphoses of Ovid

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Overview:

Title: The Metamorphoses of Ovid
Author: Ovid
Year: 1480
Publisher: William Caxton
Binding: other
Type: Novel
Title Reference: The Metamorphoses of Ovid
Notes:
- Hand-written manuscript version of the first English translation of "The Metamorphoses".
- Caxton's handwritten and illuminated manuscript translation of Ovid's classic was separated into two halves at some point. These halves came to be known as the "Pepys manuscript" and the "Phillipps manuscript". Pepys had left his portion (Books X-XV) to Magdalene College, Cambridge University, in his will, dated 1703. In 1964, the Phillipps manuscript (Books I-IX) was discovered among the papers of Sir Thomas Phillips and was then purchased by Magdalene College. To help finance this purchase, the 1968 facsimile edition was created and sold. This manuscript edition thus exists as a "limited edition" of one copy, with a 1968 "reprint" edition.
- This edition is not in WorldCat.