Homērou Ilias. = Homeri Ilias.
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1524
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3086997.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
Vol. 1: [56], 277, [1] leaves ; 8vo. Running number: 7062. Ruled in red throughout. Interlinear manuscript annotations in Greek on leaves A3-A5, written in a tiny sixteenth or seventeenth-century hand. Provenance: armorial binding 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: "(413/2)". Eighteenth-century[?] manuscript inscriptions on verso of front free endpaper: price "16 tt 16" (in livres tournois?) and old shelfmark "M.2.1.". Seventeenth-century manuscript old shelfmark on title page: "Y92". Manuscript bookseller's price[?] on rear fly-leaf: "30tt..." [the rest illegible]. Binding: seventeenth-century gold-tooled brown goatskin over pasteboards; 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 spine in six compartments with fillet, roll and leafy tooling, five with identical monogram 'LB' and one with title 'HOMERI ILIAS GR' 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 endpapers. 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