Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum: Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries, Volume XII. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2022, 559 pp.

The twelfth volume of Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum (CTC) marks a departure from earlier books in this series by focusing on the reception history of a single text: the Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso, otherwise known as Ovid. This book has been decades in the making. It began in the late 1970s, when Virginia Brown, then a member of the editorial board of CTC, commissioned Frank T. Coulson to compose an article on the medieval reception of Ovid’s most famous poem and the late Harry Louis Levy (1906–1981) to contribute information on the early modern commentaries. Coulson later collaborated with Harald Anderson to write the essay on the fortuna of the Metamorphoses and the sections on its commentary tradition and translation history. The result of the industry of these three scholars is well worth the wait. This massive instrument of reference is a monumental contribution to our understanding of the reception of Ovid’s poem in the medieval and early modern periods and the most important addition to Ovidian reception studies in modern scholarship. Exhaustive in its thoroughness and immaculate in its presentation, this book will enlighten and inform scholars and students of the Metamorphoses for decades to come.