ions. After the Aesop this particular font of
Greek type next appeared in the first edition of Homer, printed at
Florence in 1488 by Bartolommeo di Libri, and in three of his subsequent
books, once at Rome early in the 16th century, after which it disappears
altogether.

In the present edition the Fabulae graece number 147, the Fabulae latine
100, the Fabulae selectae 62. The translator, Rinuccio d'Arezzo, who
dedicates his work to Cardinal Antonio Cerdano, tells him in closing
that he sends all that have come into his hands, though probably not all
that Aesop wrote, since while they stand in alphabetical order, some
letters are wanting and others have not their full quota. Not all copies
have all the three parts, nor are they always bound in the same order.
The present copy, though in all respects complete, is bound irregularly,
as follows: 1. Fabulae selectae. 2. Fabulae graece. 3. Vita Aesopi graece.
4. Vita et fabulae latine. On the verso of the last blank leaf is
written in an early hand "olim fuit _Reverendissimi_ m_agistri_ georgii
de casali."

Mr. Wodhull paid "Edwards" for this copy, in 1799, L14.14s. Bound by
Mrs. Weir in green morocco extra, gilt edges. Leaf 9 x 6 in.

18. OVIDIUS NASO, PUBLIUS. Metamorphoses. Parma, Andreas Portilia, 15
May, 1480.

_Fol. 1, blank_, _2^a_: TABVLAE F[upturned A]BVLARVM (_sic_) OVIDII
METAMORPHOSEOS. _Fol. 6^a_: Domitius Calderinus Veronensis. [D]E Ouidii
uita nihil a nobis i_n_ hoc loco scribe_n_du_m_ _est_. _Fol. 7^a_: P.
OVIDII NASONIS SVLMONENSIS METAMORPHOSEOS LIBER PRIMVS. _Fol. 187^b_,
COLOPHON: FINIS Impressum Parmae Opera Et Impensis Andre_ae_ Portili_ae_
.M.CCCC.LXXX. Idibus Maiis Ioanne Galeazio Maria Mediolani Illustrissimo
Duce Regna_n_te F[oe]liciter. _Fol. 188, blank._

Folio. Sign. a^6, b-q^8, r^{10}, s-y^8, z^6, &^6. 188 unnumbered
leaves, the first and last blank, 40 lines to the page, roman
letter. Three- to eight-line spaces, with guide-letters, left for
the initials of the fifteen books. Hain *12160.

First initial of each book supplied in red; heading of each book and
each fable underlined in red; initial-strokes in every verse and
paragraph-marks in red. Without the last blank leaf.

Andreas Portilia was the first printer at Parma, where his press was
established in 1472 and continued, with two brief transfers to Bologna
and Reggio, till 1486.

Mr. Wodhull's copy, for which he paid, at the sale of Dr. Chauncy's
library