Homerou Ilias . syn tois scholiois pseudepigraphois Didymou.
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1817
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3087871
Summary
Bibliographic description
4v. . 8vo.. Ms. notes and doodles throughout. A child's drawing is pasted onto flyleaf of vol. I. With a sheet of transcriptions laid into vol. II (p.609). With many dates of reading, including p.388 Vol.III: 'Began reading the Odyssey in summer of 1902, continued it during summer of 1903'. Page 616 Vol.IV 'December 10th 1822' and facing this 'and again on the 11th October 1856 after 34 years!!' 'and again on the 11th August 1865 at Blair Athol with Mamma George & Alice' [possibly written by Sir George's sister Margaret, later Lady Knutsford]. On same page 'Jan. 3 1905'.. Provenance: With signs of multiple owners. manuscript on pastedown of vol.I: 'W.P. Trevelyan 1828 Eton College Windsor Bucks' [probably William Pitt Trevelyan (1812-1905)]: repeated on title page. Also 'J.S. Trevelyan'. On free endpaper 'C.P. Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958)] from his father [i.e. Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1838-1928)] Dec 20 1903'. On back pastedown: 'Trevelyan' in a nineteenth-century hand, W.P. Trevelyan; Charles Edward Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan(1807-1886)]. Vols. 2-4 have twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks. Vol. II has two manuscript inscriptions on pastedown: 'Iliad 22.x.[18]25/ J.S. Trevelyan/ W.P. Trevelyan'. In same volume on flyleaf: 'William P. Trevelyan July 1826'. Vol. III has manuscript inscription 'Charles Philips Trevelyan from GO Trevelyan April 1904'. All bindings have in gilt 'C' or 'CE Trevelyan' on front board.. Binding: Full diced leather, rebacked.
Makers and roles
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC) Didymus Chalcenterus (ca. 63 B.C.-10 A.D.)