Accession number
PML 75834
Creator
Homer.
Object title
Homerus in Iliade.
Published
[Poitiers] : [Jean Bouyer], [approximately 1499]
Description
[26] leaves ; 19.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of Mr. J. Richardson Dilworth, Mr. Haliburton Fales, 2nd, Mr. Theodore S. Hope, Jr., Violet Popper Kramarsky (Mrs. Siegfried Kramarsky), Mr. John H. Loudon, Mr. David Hunter McAlpin, Frances Tracy Pennoyer Schilling (Mrs. August H. Schilling), and Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1979.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Bouyer's types 10:110G and 11:76G. Printer's device on leaf A1r.
Signatures: A-B⁸ C¹⁰: 26 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.3 x 13.6 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Bouyer's types 10:110G and 11:76G. Printer's device on leaf A1r.
Signatures: A-B⁸ C¹⁰: 26 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.3 x 13.6 cm.
Binding
19th-century dark red morocco over paper boards (19.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Riviere & Son. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; gilt edges.
Variant title
Title in ISTC: Iliados epitome
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: A few contemporary marginal and interlinear notations. Several inscriptions, difficult to read, leaf C10v.
Provenance
Maggs Bros., cat. 533 (1930), no. 51, supposedly acquired from Émile Nourry (i.e. Pierre Saintyves), who had separated a Sammelband of 11 rare Poitiers incunabula (see letter from Clifford Maggs in ChL 1596T file); Albert Ehrman (1890-1969), Broxbourne Library, bookplates (front and rear pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 8 May 1978, lot 506; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Bernard Malle, Feb. 1979.
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