Accession number
PML 142031
Creator
Homer.
Published
Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Asulani soceri, M.D.XVII. mense iunio [1517]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Batrachomyomachia is no longer attributed to Homer.
Greek title romanized.
Imprint from colophon in PML 1368.
Library has vol. 1 only; bound as a collector's set with v. 2 of 1524 ed. (PML 142032 ).
Library's copy has the Life of Homer bound in at end of v. 1 (56 unnumbered leaves).
Printer's device on t.p. and colophon leaf (Fletcher device no. 3).
Reprint of 1504 Aldine ed. (see Renouard).
Signatures (8vo): v. 1: A-LL⁸ MM⁶[MM6 is blank] I⁴ 1-7⁸; v. 2: a-z⁸ A-H⁸.
Spaces with guide letters for capitals.
The 56 unnumbered leaves at end contain lives of Homer by Herodotus, Plutarch, & Dio Chrysostom; according to Renouard and Kallendorf, this section may be bound with either the Iliad or the Odyssey.
Title of v. 2: Ulyssea. Batrachomyomachia. Hymni. xxxii.
Greek title romanized.
Imprint from colophon in PML 1368.
Library has vol. 1 only; bound as a collector's set with v. 2 of 1524 ed. (PML 142032 ).
Library's copy has the Life of Homer bound in at end of v. 1 (56 unnumbered leaves).
Printer's device on t.p. and colophon leaf (Fletcher device no. 3).
Reprint of 1504 Aldine ed. (see Renouard).
Signatures (8vo): v. 1: A-LL⁸ MM⁶[MM6 is blank] I⁴ 1-7⁸; v. 2: a-z⁸ A-H⁸.
Spaces with guide letters for capitals.
The 56 unnumbered leaves at end contain lives of Homer by Herodotus, Plutarch, & Dio Chrysostom; according to Renouard and Kallendorf, this section may be bound with either the Iliad or the Odyssey.
Title of v. 2: Ulyssea. Batrachomyomachia. Hymni. xxxii.
Description
2 v. (277, [1]; 251, [56] leaves) ; 16 cm
Provenance
Robert Lenox Kennedy (armorial bookplate); from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
19th-century red morocco, gold- and blind-tooled; inscription in pencil on bookplate reads: Roger Payne? (the suggested attribution is probably erroneous).
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