Manuscript of The Metamorphoses

Books 1 - 9 with four coloured drawings and 272 leaves. The remaining portion (208 leaves) belonged to Samuel Pepys who left it in his will to Magdelene College in 1703. Manuscript may be in Caxton's own hand

Item author: Ovid, William Caxton (Translator)
Item date: 1480
Grant Value: 500
Item cost pre-decimal: 90,000
Item date acquired: 1967
Item institution: Magdalene College, Cambridge
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire