Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis autas scholia, ē exēgēsis, tōn palaiōn. = Homeri Ilias & Odyssea, et in easdem scholia, sive interpretatio, veterum. Item notae perpetuae, in textum & scholia, variae lectiones, &c. cum versione latina emendatissimâ. Accedunt Batrachomyomachia, Hymni & Epigrammata, unà cum fragmentis, & gemini indices. Totum opus cum plurimis MSS. vetustissimis, & optimis editionibus collatum, sauctum, emendatum, & priscae integritati restitutum. Operâ, studio, & impensis, Josuæ Barnes, S.T.B. in Academiâ Cantabrigia Regii Graecae Linguae Professoris.
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1711
Materials
Place of origin
Cambridge
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3047482
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plate ; 4to. Plate is folded to fit binding. Vol. 2 free endpaper verso has offset of possible instructions to binder for titling in an eighteenth-century hand. Provenance: armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754) in vol. 1 only: Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled, blind panelled calf; blind double fillet and rectangular compartment and floral cornerpiece design on covers; remnants of gilt tooling on spine and board edges; text-block edges sprinkled red; five raised bands; gilt lettered red spine labels (top one missing on vol. 1): Homeri Odyssea Barnesii. Vol. 1 upper board and free endpaper loose.
Makers and roles
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC) Joshua Barnes (1654-1712)