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The Ovide Moralisé constitutes the first complete adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses into French, a masterpiece of 72.000 octosyllabes to which there remain today no fewer than 22 witnesses. The manuscript tradition shows that some of the most valuable codices were commissioned by well-known noblemen and inventoried in important libraries. The work of an anonymous Burgundian author, the text was most likely completed before 1320. […]