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Those who come to the Museum of the House of European History in Brussels, inaugurated on May 6, 2017, will be able to contemplate in their permanent exhibition a post-incunabula from the University Library of the UMU.
The valuable specimen left the University of Murcia on April 6 to the new museum of the Belgian capital, where it will remain until 2022 to be exhibited in its permanent exhibition.
These are the "Metamorphoses" of P. Ovidio Nason, printed in Parma in 1505, and digitized in full text by the Floridablanca Digital Library: http://hdl.handle.net/11169/919
A post-incunabula is a book that, although printed in the sixteenth century (between 1501 and 1520) maintains the most primitive characteristics of books printed in the incunable period.
In order to get him out of Spain on loan, permission was required from the Rector of the University of Murcia and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, as well as the restoration of the cover, which has been carried out by Juan Antonio Montalbán, Being subsidized by the European Parliament.
The copy is one of the most valuable contents in the Old Fund Section of the University of Murcia, has been digitized in the UMU and can be seen in open access through the Interclassica portal, which has linked the book and included a Excellent and very documented description written by the professors of the University of Murcia Rosa María Iglesias Montiel and Maria Consuelo Álvarez Morán.
As the two teachers report in their study, this copy comes from the Colegio de la Concepción de Murcia, and was part of the funds of the Provincial Library of Murcia.
They add that "The form and content of the commentaries are consistent with the needs of contemporary school education, which ensured a knowledge of geography, astrology, music, rhetoric, moral and natural philosophy, and clearly reflects what I thought about Metamorphosis: an encyclopedia of all ancient knowledge ".
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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