Homerou Ilias kai Odysseia, kai eis autas scholia, e exegesis Didymou. = . Homeri Ilias & Odyssea, et in easdem scholia, sive interpretatio Didymi. Cum Latina versione accuratissima, indicequé Graeco locupletissimo rerum ac variantum lection. Accurante Corn. Schrevelio.
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1655 - 1656
Materials
Place of origin
Netherlands
Collection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 3038521
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. . ports.. . 4to.. Previous shelfmark: J.2.5-6. Identified in 1796 inventory: O 325, price 2s. Christies, 21 June 2004, lot 647. Perhaps the "Homer in two volumes" acquired by Robert Myddleton by part exchange from Thomas Woodward, February 25 1717, about a month after Myddleton's arrival at Chirk - Chirk Castle Accounts (Continued) A.D. 1666-1753 ... (Hornchurch, 1931), p. 394.. Provenance: Bookplate in both vols: Chirk Castle R. E. Myddelton [i.e. Robert Edward Myddelton (1866-1949)]; crest, signed and dated: W.P.B. 1914.. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf bindings; double gilt fillet and blind roll pattern border; gilt roll on board edges; gold-tooled spines. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC) Didymus Chalcenterus (ca. 63 B.C.-10 A.D.) Cornelis Schrevel (1608-1664)