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
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3047483
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plate ; 4to. Running number: 4805. Provenance: manuscript inscription on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "M. 2. vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled sprinkled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spines, with gilt title and vol. number on brown leather label. Red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC) Dio, Chrysostom , author Dionysius, of Halicarnassus (c.60 - after 7 BC), author Plutarch (c.46 - c.120), author Porphyry (c.232-c.305), author Joshua Barnes (1654-1712), editor Balthazar Bernaerts (1711-1737), engraver (printmaker) Jan Goeree (Middelburg 1670 - Amsterdam 1731), artist