Homērou Ilias ; [Odysseia ; Batrachomyomachia ; Hymnoi 1b] =
Homeri Ilias ; [Vlyssea ; Batrachomyomachia ; Hymni XXXII]
[electronic resource]
Description
- Language(s)
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Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Published
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Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Asulani soceri, mense Iunio 1517.
- Note
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For binding and provenance information, see the Aldine Press, Catalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection, University of California Press, 2001.
Rare Book copy 1: Bound in alum-tawed pigskin decorated in blind with tools and rolls. Remnants of 2 clasps on foreedge.
Rare Book copy 1: Inscribed by Philipp Melanchthon to Martin Luther. Extensively annotated throughout, in more than one hand, probably including Philipp Melanchthon. The notes seem to be lecture notes, either Melanchthon's preparatory notes by students.
Rare Book copy 2: Water damage, particularly at bottom of leaves at beginning of text; final four leaves repaired at top.
Rare Book copy: Volume 2: Trimmed with slight loss of annotations in margins.
Rare Book copy: Volume 2: Signature p either misbound or misprinted as 113, 116, 115, 114, 117, 110 [sic], 119, 118.
Rare Book copy: Volume 1, copy 2: Last leaf, blank, wanting.
Rare Book copy: Volume 1, copy 1: Worm hole in first two leaves with slight loss of text.
Rare Book copy: Signatures: v. 1. A-2L8, M4; v. 2 a-z8, A-H8, I4, 1-7.
Rare Book copy: Pagination: v.1. 177, [1] leaves ; v.2. 251, [1] leaves, [56] leaves.
Includes register.
The second Aldine edition. Each vol. has a distinct pagination. The life of Homer is on 56 unpaged leaves.
Aldine device on t.p. and verso of final leaf of each vol.; capital spaces with guide letters.
Vol. 1: [56], 277, [1] leaves ; Vol. 2: 251, [1] leaves.
Last leaf of v. [1] blank.
Signatures: v. 1: 1-7⁸ A-2L⁸ 2M⁶; v. 2: a-z⁸ A-H⁸ I⁴.
Imprint from colophon, v. [2].
- Physical Description
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2 v. ;
17 cm. (8vo)
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