De Archana Deorum
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (imperial). Fine / Near Fine. Item #007940
Orig. yellow buckram. Pictorial endpapers. xii, 227 pp. Light rubbing to corners. Dust jacket is price clipped with a few small stains, else fine overall. The Archana Deorum of Thomas Walsingham is a compilation of medieval mythographic information arranged as a moralization of Ovid's Metamorphoses, and introduced by treatises on the nature and the iconography of the pagan gods. The publication of this work, found in a single manuscript of the early 15th century (St. John's College, Oxford, MS 124), constitutes its editio princeps.
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