Metamorphoses

Notes

• 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.