Homeri poetae clarissimi Odyssea / Andrea Diuo Iustinopolitano interprete, ad verbu[m] translata ; eiusdem Batrachomyomachia, id est, Ranaru[m] & muriu[m] pugna, Aldo Manutio Romano interp[re]te ; eiusdem Hymni deorum XXXII Georgio Dartona Cretense interprete.

Accession number: 
PML 199344.2
Author: 
Homer.
Published: 
Venetiis : Apud D. Iacob à Burgofrancho, MDXXXVII mense Martio [March 1537]
Credit: 
Purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Description: 
[8], 251, [1] leaves ; 17 cm
Notes: 

First edition of Andrea Divo's Latin prose translation of Homer's Odyssey, designed to be used with the Greek text of the Aldine Homer, to whose pages it corresponded; accompanied by Aldus Manutius' Latin translation of Batrachomyomachia, The battle of the frogs and mice; and Homers Hymni deorum, translated into Latin by George an account of the life of Homer (formerly attributed to Herodotus), translated by Conrad Heresbach.
In verse.
Imprint from colophon.
Roman and italic types, 30 lines plus headline
Signatures: +⁸ A-Z⁸ AA-GG⁸ HH¹⁰: 258 leaves.
Woodcuts: architectural t.p. featuring figures of the goddesses Athena on the left, and Melissa, holding a globe filled with bees [?], on the right, with Burgofranco's initials in a cartouche supported by cherubs below; Burgofranco's device on leaf [1] at end (his initials I.A.F.B. on a shield, surmounted by a sword bearing the additional initial "D", supported by two women: Faith, on the left, holding a chalice, and Hope, on the right, holding an anchor); ornamental zoomorphic initials.
Includes index.

Variant Title: 

Odyssea

Provenance: 
Andrea Divo, the translator, presentation lettering on covers to the dedicatee, Pier Paolo Vergerio (1498-1565), bishop of Capodistria (1536-1549), on upper cover "And. Divi. Munus" (Gift of Andrea Divo), and on lower cover the initials "P.P." (Pier Paolo) with a bishops' mitre and his family blason of "la verza" (a cabbage, a "simbolo parlante" of the surname Verzier or Verziero, i.e. Vergerio); seventeenth-century inscription “Petri Leonardi de Rio, Archip(re)tri San. Syri [--]" on lower pastedown; sale, Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 16 January 2008, lot 85; Librairie Thomas-Scheler, Livres précieux du XVe au XIXe siècle: XXIVe Biennale des Antiquaires, Paris - Grand Palais (Paris 2008), item 36. acquisition: Purchased in 2011 from Librairie Thomas-Scheler, Paris; purchased by: T. Kimball Brooker, his sale: Sotheby's (London), Bibliotheca Brookeriana V, 10 Dec. 2024, lot 1117.
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Department: 
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