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Title: Metamorphoses Title Record # 1450242
Author: Ovid
Date: 0008-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: Latin
Note:
  • Completion date is A.D. 8. Oldest known existing manuscripts (incomplete) date to the 9th century.
  • For details on the manuscript tradition of Metamorphoses see Richard Treat Bruere, "The Manuscript Tradition of Ovid's Metamorphoses". Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 50: 95–122, 1939. An introduction to the manuscript tradition is available online here. There are 570 known manuscripts (fragments, partial, and complete), which are listed at Project Ovidio.
  • For a listing of some 830 editions of this work (including duplicates) see WorldCat. Project Ovidio also includes a listing of 363 printed editions before 1800 (37 from the 15th century; 121 from the 16th; 76 from the 17th; and 129 from the 18th).
  • A large collection of online versions of "Metamorphoses", in 8 languages and several textual variants, is available through Univ. of Virginia.
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Year Title
1534 P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon
1736 Publii Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon
Year Language Title
1480ⓘTranslated by William Caxton, the first translation into English. The 1480 translation survives only in a single manuscript copy. Experts are uncertain as to whether it was ever published, but if it was, no copy is known to have survived. The library at UW-Milwaukee writes "there is no evidence to suggest [Caxton] ever translated a text only to be used in manuscript form. Therefore, it is likely Caxton issued a printed edition of Metamorphoses at about 1480, though no copies survive today." Caxton's translation was made not from the original Latin but from a prose version of the French "<i>Ovide moralisé</i>" (Richard J. Moll), which the National Library of Australia refers to as a "French moralized version" of the work. "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 and the Phillipps manuscripts. They were reunited in the 1960's when the Phillipps manuscript (Books I-IX) was discovered and redeemed to Magdalene College; Pepys had left his portion (Books X-XV) to the College in his will, dated 1703." (Franklin Books) For more details on the elaborate negotiations required to marry those two halves back together, see James M. Wells, "<i>William Caxton's Translation of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. William Caxton</i>," <a href="http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/619821">The Library Quarterly 40, no. 1 (Jan., 1970), pp. 202-203</a>.
 English The Metamorphoses of Ovid
1484 French Metamorphoses
1484ⓘGeneral title record for English variations where the translator is unknown or uncredited.
 English The Metamorphoses of Ovid
1539ⓘTranslated by Lodovico Dolce The first edition of the initial translation by Lodovico Dolce (1508/1510-1568) into Italian. It appears that only one 70 page volume of the translation was published: WorldCat records 4 copies of this book, and no copies of any later volumes. In 1542 Dolce began working with Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari, and those editions include his translation of the entire Metamorphoses. The Giolito editions appear under the title <i>Le Trasformationi [ di M. Lodovico Dolce ]</i> from that publisher.
 Italian Il primo libro delle Trasformationi
1539 French Les XV livres de la Metamorphose
1553ⓘTranslated by Lodovico Dolce (1508/10-1568). Dolce translated the first book of the Metamorphoses for Bindone & Pasini in 1539, but did not publish any further volumes with them. According to <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=QHh9BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=trasformationi">The Roman Inquisition and the Venetian Press, 1540-1605</a>, p. 11, there were two editions published in 1553, with reprints by Giolito in 1555, 1557, 1558, 1561, and by Domenico Farri in 1570. WorldCat records most of these and a 1568 edition by F. Sansovino.
 Italian Le Trasformationi di M. Lodovico Dolce
1559ⓘ<ul><li>Abridged/Translated by Gabriel Simeoni.<li>Sub-titled: <em>figurato & abbreviato in forma d'epigrammi da M. Gabriello Symeoni. Con altre stanze sopra gl'effetti della luna: il ritrato d'una fontana 'overnia: & un apologia generale nella fine del libro</em>. </ul>
 Italian La Vita et Metamorfoseo
1561ⓘTranslated by Giovanni Andrea dell' Anguillara.
 Italian Le Metamorfosi di Ovidio
1567ⓘTranslated by Arthur Golding The translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses that Shakespeare used, and that influenced his writing. The first translation of The Metamorphoses directly from Latin to English, and the first reasonably available English edition of that work. Preceded in 1565 by a publication of the translation of the first 4 books.
 English The XV Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis
1626ⓘTranslated by George Sandys, Secretary to the Colony of Virginia when he made this translation. This is the first significant literary translation performed on the North American continent.
 English Ovid's Metamorphoses Englished by G. S.
1669ⓘTranslated by Thomas Corneille, "T. Corneille de l'Academie Françoise".
 French Les Metamorphoses
1676 Italian Delle Metamorfosi D'Ovidio [as by Ovidio]
1676ⓘTranslated by an unknown hand
 French Métamorphoses [as by Ovide]
1676 French Metamorphoses d'Ovide en Rondeaux
1732ⓘTranslated by Isaak Verburg
 Dutch De gedaant-wisselingen
1732ⓘ"Translated into English verse under the direction of Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, William Congreve, and other eminent hands." (WorldCat, <abbr class="template" title="WorldCat/Online Computer Library Center"><a href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14096903">OCLC 14096903</a></abbr>.)
 English Ovid's Metamorphoses
1734ⓘTranslated by M. l'abbé de Bellegarde
 French Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide [as by Ovide]
1735ⓘTranslated by John Clarke.
 English Metamorphoses
1771ⓘTranslated by Banier. Do not merge with other titles that share the name & language, but do not share the same translator.
 French Les Metamorphoses
1819 Spanish Metamorfóseos ó transformaciones de Ovidio
1904ⓘTranslated by Arthur Golding. This is, essentially, a reprint of the <a href="http:///www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2244562">1567 edition</a>, translated by Golding.
 English Shakespeare's Ovid Being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphoses
1917 English Ovid's Metamorphoses
1955ⓘTranslated by <a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=Mary%20M.%20Innes&amp;type=Name&amp;mode=exact">Mary M. Innes</a>
 English The Metamorphoses of Ovid
1958 English The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso
1990ⓘTranslated by Gerhard Fink, who also was the responsible editor
 German Metamorphosen: Das Buch der Mythen und Verwandlungen
1993ⓘNew verse translation. Translated by Allen Mandelbaum.
 English The Metamorphoses of Ovid
2002ⓘTranslated by Arthur Golding in 1567 under a different title.
 English Ovid's Metamorphoses
2004ⓘTranslated by Xosé Antón Dobarro Posada from Latin to Galician.
 Galician Metamorfoses
2004ⓘTranslated by David Raeburn
 English Metamorphoses
2007 English The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid
2008 English The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Metamorphoses 0008-00-00 Ovid        
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
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Metamorphoses 1479-00-00 Ovid Printer of Ovidius (Parma)      
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
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Metamorphoses 1505-00-00 Ovid Francesco Mazali (Parma)     166
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P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon 1534-00-00 Ovid Seb. Gryphium (Lyon)     [xxxvi]+
423+
[5]
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P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon 1556-00-00 Ovid Ioan. Gryphium (Venice)     [xvi]+
432
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P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon 1565-00-00 Ovid Antonium Gryphium (Lugduni)     453
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Metamorphoses 1651-00-00 Ovid Augustin Courbé     474+
174+
216
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P. Ovidii Nasonis: Metamorphoseon 1670-00-00 Ovid Lugduni Batavorum      
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Ovid's Metamorphoses in Latin and English 1732-00-00 Ovid Wetsteins and Smith      
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De gedaant-wisselingen van P. Ovidius Naso 1732-00-00 Ovid Wetsteins and Smith     [16]+
247+
[2]+
276+
[4]
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Metamorphoseon 1735-00-00 John Clarke (18th century) A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch     vii+
479
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
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Publii Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon 1736-00-00 Ovid Hieron. Christiani Paulli     [vii]+
621+
[6]
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Metamorphoseon 1739-00-00 John Clarke (18th century) Alexander Millar     120+
179
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
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Metamorphoseon 1741-00-00 John Clarke (18th century) C. Hitch     viii+
479
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
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Metamorfoses 2004-00-00 Ovid Galaxia (Clásicos en galego #24) 84-8288-775-0
€49.80?€: Euro
 757
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
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Ovid's Metamorphoses in Latin and English 2011-00-00 Ovid The Easton Press      
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
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