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Title

Hē tou Homērou poiēsis hapasa.

Author

Homer.

Publication

[Florence : Printer of Vergilius (C 6061) [Demetrius Damilas and Bartolommeo Libri?] for Bernardus and Nerius Nerlius, and Johannes Acciaiuolus, 8 December 1488 [i.e. not before 13 January 1489]]

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Additional Authors

• Calcondila, Demetrio, 1423-1511.
• Demetrius, of Crete, active 1476-1488
• Libri, Bartolommeo di, active 1482-1511
• Bosch, Jeronimo de, 1740-1811
• Lennep, David Jacob van, 1774-1853
• Yemeniz, Nicolas, 1775-1871
• Paillet, Eugène
• Morgand, Damascène
• Morgan, Junius Spencer
• Budé, Guillaume, 1468-1540
• Boze, Claude Gros de, 1680-1753
• Bignon, Jean Paul, 1662-1743
• Ives, Brayton, 1840-1914
• Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
• McCormick, Cyrus H. (Cyrus Hall), 1859-1936
• Askew, Anthony, 1722-1774
• Currer, Frances Mary Richardson, 1785-1861
• Tweedmouth, Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, Baron, 1820-1894
• Ellsworth, James W. (James William), 1849-1925
• Elliott, Thomas, d. 1763
• Rosenbach Company, bookseller. NjP

Description

2 v. ([438] l.); 34 cm. (fol.)

Uniform Title

• Works. 1489
• Battle of the frogs and mice.
• Homeric hymns.

Alternative Title

• Works. 1489
• Tou Homērou poiēsis hapasa

Subject

Incunabula > Specimens

Genre/Form

• Annotations (Provenance)
• Armorial bindings (Binding)

Note

• Signatures: A-D⁸, E¹⁰, A-Z⁸, ET⁸, [con]⁸, [rum]⁸; AA-ZZ⁸, ETET⁶.
• Editio princeps.
• Dedicatory letter in Latin by Bernardus Nerlius dated 13 Jan. 1488/89.
• Edited by Demetrius Chalcondyles.
• Title from colophon.
• Vol. 1 begins (leaf [superscript pi]A1r): Bernardus Nerlius Petro Medicae Laurentii filio .S.
• Vol. 2 begins (leaf AA1r): Hypothesis tēs A Homērou Odysseias.
• Place of publication from colophon; printer statement from ISTC, Ridolfi, colophon, and the prefatory letter of Nerlius; date from prefatory letter.
• Colophon (v. 2, leaf 2ET5v): Hē tou Homērou poiēsis hapasa entypōtheisa peras eilēphen ēdē syn theō en phlōrentia, analōmasi men, tōn eugenōn kai agathōn andrōn, kai peri logous hellēnikous spoudaiōn Bernardou kai Nēriou tanaidos tou Neriliou phlōrentinoin. ponō de kai dexiotēti Dēmētriou Mediolaneōs Krētos, tōn logiōn andrōn charin kai logōn hellenikōn ephiemenōn, Etei tō apo tēs Christou gennēseōs chiliostō tetrakosiostō ogdoēkostō ogdoō mēnos dekembriou enatē.
• Initial spaces.
• 39 lines to the page. Types: 121 Gk. 96 R. Printed in black.
• Due to an imposition error in the inner forme of sheet O2.7 (v. 1), the text on leaves O2v and O7r has been reversed. Cf. BM 15th cent.
• ExI copy 1 has one illuminated initial (leaf 1a).
• ExI copy 1 imperfect: blank leaf preceding the Iliad (E 10) and blank leaf at end (ETET 6) wanting.

Indexed In (note)

• Hain-Copinger-Reichling
• Proctor
• BM 15th cent.
• Goff
• Catalogue of the collection of books and manuscripts belonging to Mr. Brayton Ives
• J. H. Hanford, "An Old Master Restored. The Homeric Commentary of Guillaume Budé at Princeton," The Princeton University Library Chronicle 18 (1956): 1-10.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in an electronic version.

Reproduction (note)

• Microfilm.

Provenance (note)

• ExI copy 1 formerly owned by Bosch, Van Lennep, Yemeniz (book-plate), Eugène Paillet (autograph), Damascène Morgand and Junius Spencer Morgan.
• ExI copy 2 is annotated in ms. by Guillaume Budé, was formerly in the library of Claude Gros de Boze; in the 1753 (Gabriel Martin) auction cat., it is lot 806, 2 vols., red morocco: "Cet exemplaire ... a appartenu au célèbre Guillaume Budée; ses armes sont peintes dans les lettres initiales de chaque volume, & les marges de l'un & de l'autre sont chargées de scholies Grecques & Latines de sa propre main & de celle de Louis Budée son frère. M. Boivin Garde de la Bibliothèque du Roi en a donné la notice dans les Mémoires de l'Académie des Belles-Lettres, Tom. v. pag. 354. & suiv."
• ExI copy 2 is from the Cyrus H. McCormick collection; formerly owned Jean Paul Bignon, abbé of St. Quentin, by Brayton Ives; bookplate of Robert Hoe.
• WHS copy formerly owned by Dr. Anthony Askew, Brierley, Miss Richardson-Currer, Dudley C. Marjoribanks, and James William Ellsworth; acquired 9/4/23 from Rosenbach.

Binding (note)

• ExI copy 1 bound in green morocco. Monogram BD on covers. Binding attributed to Alexis Pierre Bradel, nephew of Derome le jeune, often called Bradel-Derome. (See letter from Brick Row Book Shop inserted in v. 1).
• ExI copy 2 in later red goatskin with blind double fillet.
• WHS copy bound by Elliott for Anthony Askew.

Contents

Vol. [1]. Ilias -- v. [2]. Odysseia -- Batrachomyomachia -- Hymnoi.

OCLC

• on1340155259
• SCSB-998049

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library