Title transliterated from the Greek.
Volume 1 only of Eustathius's Commentary on Homer, specifically including his Commentary on books I-V of Homer's Iliad; from the first edition issued in Rome in 4 volumes, 1542-1551, with the other three parts of this work containing the rest of the commentary on the Iliad, the commentary on the Odyssey, and the indices.
One of 4 volumes issued under the general title: Eustathiou archiepiskopou Thessalonikēs Parekbolai eis tēn Homērou Iliada kai Odysseian meta Euporōtatou kai pany ōphelimou pinakos; the general title page of the work was not issued until publication of the final volume in 1550.
Edited by Nicolaus Majoranus.
Woodcut printer's device on title-page with the printer's monogram.
Greek type, 46 lines plus headline.
Signatures: π² α-ρρ⁶ σσ⁸ ττ-βββ⁶ γγγ⁸: 314 leaves (σσ8 and ττ1 blank).
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Eustathiou archiepiskopou Thessalonikēs Parekbolai eis tēn Homērou Iliada.
Accession number:
PML 199337
Published:
Romae : [Antonio Blado] M. D. XLII [1542]
Credit:
Purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Description:
2 preliminary leaves, 620 pages ; 33 cm (folio)
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Binding:
Contemporary Parisian alla greca binding made for Marcus Fugger (331 x 230 mm), wooden covers with sunken panels decorated in different colours, central dark brown panel with blind interlacing and pale central cartouche within a painted wooden frame, the next inset frame of blue silk overlaid with gilt card interlacing, outer raised frame of dark brown morocco gilt with leafy azured tools and swirls, flat spine with outline interlaced gilt decoration on a pointillé ground with longitudinal vellum manuscript label (detached), manuscript paper extended endbands of blue and yellow thread, board edges with grooves and four pins for straps, one remaining (of four) triple plaited cord strap attached to lower board, edges gilt and gauffered. In modern half green morocco drop-backed folding box lined with green felt.
Provenance:
Marcus Fugger (1529-1597), inscription "Marcus Fuggerus" on inside front cover, with his shelfmark "Arc. 151 Nro. 20"; Oettingen-Wallerstein library at Schloss Maihingen (which inherited some of Marcus Fugger's library), armorial ink stamp on title-page, sale, Karl & Faber, Auktion 8: Bibliophile Kostbarkeiten aus der Bibliothek des Augsburger Patriziers Marcus Fugger, Munich, 6-7 November 1933, lot 239; Constantin Carathéodory (1873-1950), bookplate, sale, Sotheby's, 8 June 2011, lot 15. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale; purchased by: T. Kimball Brooker, his sale: Sotheby's (London), Bibliotheca Brookeriana V, 10 Dec. 2024, lot 1092.
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