La Metamorphose (Metamorphoses)
Ovid
(43 B.C.–17 or 18 A.D.)
Bernard Salomon
(French, about 1508–about 1561)
Jean de Tournes
(French, 1504–1564)
1557
Place of PublicationLyons, France
Medium/TechniqueIllustrated book with 178 woodcuts
DimensionsOverall: 16.2 x 11.4 x 1.3 cm (6 3/8 x 4 1/2 x 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Philip Hofer, Esq.
Accession number41.310
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Not on viewClassificationsIllustrated books
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Lyons: Jean de Tournes, 1557
ProvenanceInscription dated 3 May 1760 on recto of fol. m4; Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA (1898-1984), by whom given to MFA May 8, 1941
