Homērou Ilias. = Homeri Ilias.
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1524
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3086997
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ; 8vo. Running number: 7061-7062. Both vols. ruled in red throughout. Interlinear manuscript annotations in Greek on leaves A3-A5 in vol. 1, written in a tiny sixteenth or seventeenth-century hand. Provenance: armorial bindings of Louis Bizeau, conseiller au Parlement de Paris (fl. first half of seventeenth-century); not much is known about Bizeau but he must have had a large library as his armorial bindings are not uncommon. Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Eighteenth-century manuscript book number or inventory number on recto of front fly-leaf in both vols.: "(413/2)" (vol. 1) and "(413/1)" (vol. 2). Eighteenth-century[?] manuscript inscriptions on verso of vol. 1 front fly-leaf: price "16 tt 16" (in livres tournois?) and old shelfmark "M.2.1.". Manuscript old shelfmark on verso of vol. 2 front fly-leaf: "M.2.2.". Seventeenth-century manuscript old shelfmark on both title pages: "Y92" (partially cropped in vol. 2). Manuscript bookseller's price[?] on vol. 1 rear fly-leaf: "30tt..." [the rest illegible]. Binding: seventeenth-century gold-tooled brown goatskin over pasteboards (vol. 2 front cover stained); sewn on five supports; single and double gilt fillet border and panel, with gilt centrepiece arms of Louis Bizeau (a fess, two stars in chief, a crescent in point) surmounted by a helmet with mantling, and gilt monogram 'LB' at the corners of the panel; gilt dashed roll on board edges; gold-tooled spines in six compartments with fillet, roll and leafy tooling, five with identical monogram 'LB' and one with title lettered directly onto spine, floral and dentelle rolls at head and foot, five raised bands with semi-circular and triangular roll tooling; all edges gilt and marbled; comb pattern marbled pastedowns. For Bizeau's bindings, see: Olivier, ‘Manuel de l’amateur de reliures’, V, pl. 486.
Makers and roles
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC), author Herodotus (c.484-c.425 BC), author Plutarch (c.46 - c.120), author Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), editor Andreas Torresanus de Asula (1451-1529), printer Aedes Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, printer