Accession number
PML 1372
Creator
Didymus, Chalcenterus.
Published
Venetiis : In aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae soceri, Mense Maio. M.D. XXI. [May 1521]
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Title proper romanized from Greek.
Imprint from colophon on leaf ²f3r: Venetiis in aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae soceri mense maio. M.D. XXI.
Although called for on the title page, the scholia on the Odyssey was not published until 1528.
Includes the scholia of Porphyrius on 44 leaves at end, with special t.p.: Porphyriou philosophou homerika zētēmata. Tou autou Porphyriou peri tou, en Odysseia tōn Nymphōn, antrou. Porphyrij philosophi homericarum quæstionum liber. Eiusdem de Nympharum antroin Odyssea, opusculum.
Signatures: a-z A-R⁸; ²a-e⁸ f⁴: leaf R8.
Printer's device on each t.p. and on verso of final leaf.
Imprint from colophon on leaf ²f3r: Venetiis in aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae soceri mense maio. M.D. XXI.
Although called for on the title page, the scholia on the Odyssey was not published until 1528.
Includes the scholia of Porphyrius on 44 leaves at end, with special t.p.: Porphyriou philosophou homerika zētēmata. Tou autou Porphyriou peri tou, en Odysseia tōn Nymphōn, antrou. Porphyrij philosophi homericarum quæstionum liber. Eiusdem de Nympharum antroin Odyssea, opusculum.
Signatures: a-z A-R⁸; ²a-e⁸ f⁴: leaf R8.
Printer's device on each t.p. and on verso of final leaf.
Description
319, [45] leaves ; 17 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Magdeburg, St. Moritz(?), inscription: "a k[???]anne ex Bibliotheca Mauritiana emit 6 x 1693" (front pastedown); F.C.G. Ernesti, 1781, signature (front pastedown); Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), signature, 1834 and shelfmark: D1 (front pastedown); James Toovey (1814-1893), purchased Gosford's library en bloc in 1878; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Binding
Contemporary German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, with clasps and corner pieces.
Classification
Catalog link
Department