{"product_id":"heorides-heroidum-epistolae","title":"Heroides (Heroidum Epistolae)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAntwerp: Arnold van Brakel, 1649. Expurgated school edition, with the Jesuit IHS device on the title. Text in Latin. Contemporary calf, spine with raised bands, compartments gilt-tooled. [24mo \/ small 12mo]. Ownership inscriptions of Joan[nes] Leigh (several, with an ownership dispute in Latin on the title) and “Jacobus Frampton 1733”; two pen-and-ink caricature heads on a preliminary leaf. Spine worn to extremities, heavy wear on cover and text edges, numerous annotations and inscriptions, and chipping to covers. Still, a good copy of a nearly 400 year old text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis miniature book of Ovid's Heroides is the letters of famous ancient Greek heroines like from [24mo \/ small 12moenelope to Ulysses (Odysseus), and from Helen to Paris. This edition is with the obscene passages dismissed. And contains significant provenance such as \"Hunc sibi vindicat Joh[annes] Hendri[cus?] … quidem tibi vindicas, sed ego sum verus possessor” (“Johannes Hendricus claims this for himself … you may claim it, but I am the true owner”) and two caricature profile heads in ink, dating from the early 18th century.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eThe device is IHS with a cross above and three nails below, inside a sunburst. Which is the emblem of the Society of Jesus with “in gratiam castae iuventutis” (“for chaste youth”).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yester","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60343911842078,"sku":"UN-0034","price":400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1082\/2094\/0574\/files\/ovid-the-heroid-es-letters-of-the-heorines-latin-1669-rare-book-miniature-0001.jpg?v=1792185951","url":"https:\/\/fromyester.com\/products\/heorides-heroidum-epistolae","provider":"Yester","version":"1.0","type":"link"}