Accession number
PML 125713
Published
Lugduni Batavorum : Ex officina Ioannis Maire, 1632.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1995.
Notes
Batrachomyomachia is no longer attributed to Homer. Cf. NAFL85215581.
Ill. (numerous small cuts in the text) are apparently by various artists; some, with monogram of CvS, are attributed to Christoffel van Sichem, Jun. Cf. Nagler, G. Monogammisten, II, 803.
Aesop's Fabulae, Greek & Latin in parallel columns; Batrachomyomachia, Greek & Latin on opposite pages; other texts in Greek or Latin.
Signatures: A-K⁸.
"Argumentum Batrachomyomachiae, olim à Daniele Heinsio conscriptum": p. 113-117.
Ill. (numerous small cuts in the text) are apparently by various artists; some, with monogram of CvS, are attributed to Christoffel van Sichem, Jun. Cf. Nagler, G. Monogammisten, II, 803.
Aesop's Fabulae, Greek & Latin in parallel columns; Batrachomyomachia, Greek & Latin on opposite pages; other texts in Greek or Latin.
Signatures: A-K⁸.
"Argumentum Batrachomyomachiae, olim à Daniele Heinsio conscriptum": p. 113-117.
Description
158, [2] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Provenance
Formerly owned by Hugh Reveley, L.L.B. of Christ Church Oxford (armorial bookplate; motto: optima revelatio stella), Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Dark blue morocco, by L. Cordavau.
Classification
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