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Omērou Ilias = Homeri Ilias.

Accession number
PML 142032
Creator
Homer.
Published
Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Asulani soceri, M.D.XXIIII. mense aprili [1524]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Batrachomyomachia is no longer attributed to Homer.
Greek title romanized.
Imprint from colophon in v. 2.
Includes Life of Homer by Plutarch and from the Vita Homeri (attributed to Herodotus) in v. 1.
Library has vol. 2 only; bound as a collector's set with v. 1 of 1517 ed. (PML 142031).
Note in upper corner of flyleaf, v. 2: Collat. et perf. Jun. 27. MDCCCI. (signed) M.R.
Printer's device on t.p. and verso of final leaf (Fletcher device no. 6).
Reprint of 1504 Aldine ed., also printed in 1517 (see Renouard).
Signatures (8vo): v. 1: A-LL⁸ MM⁶ 1-7⁸; v. 2: a-z⁸ A-H⁸ I⁴.
Spaces with guide letters for capitals.
Tipped-in t.p.
Title of v. 1 from PML 1369.
Title of v. 2: Ulyssea. Batrachomyomachia. Hymni. xxxii.
Description
2 v. (277, [1], [58]; 251, [1] leaves) ; 16 cm
Provenance
Robert Lenox Kennedy (armorial bookplate); from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Full 19th-century red morocco, gold- and blind-tooled (not by Roger Payne, as inscribed on bookplate).
Classification
Department