Homeri quae exstant omnia :. Ilias, Odyssea, Batrachomyomachia, Hymni, poëmatia aliquot cum Latina versione omnium quae circumferuntur emendatiss. aliquot locis iam castigatiore perpetuis item iustisque in Iliada simul & Odysseam Io. Spondani Mauleonensis commentariis: Pindari quinetiam Thebani Epitome Iliados Latinis versib. & Daretis Phrygij De bello Troiano libri, à Corn. Nepote eleganter latino versi carmine. Editio vltima superiore limatior. Indices textus Homeri & commentariorum locupletissimi.
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1606
Materials
Place of origin
Basel
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3193232
Summary
Bibliographic description
[36], 427 p., 428-499 columns, [25]; [4], 380, [24] p. ; fol. Provenance: eighteenth century manuscript inscription "J: Talbot è Coll. Oriel", i.e. John Talbot, 1717?-1778, on recto of first free end-paper. Provenance: eighteenth century manuscript inscription "Davenport Talbot", i.e. William Davenport Talbot, 1764-1800, on recto of first free end-paper. Seventeenth? century manuscript inscription "28", possibly a previous shelfmark, on verso of first free end-paper, facing title page. Binding: seventeenth? century vellum with yapp edges over boards; evidence of ties at fore-edges of boards; one original? green silk tie remains intact; manuscript title "Homerus" in a capitalized eighteenth? century Roman hand on spine; evidence of red and black printed waste underneath front pastedown.
Provenance
Purchased with the family collection of Abbey contents in situ from Mrs Petronella Burnett-Brown December 2009.
Makers and roles
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC), author Jean de Sponde (1557-1595) Joseph of Exeter (d.c.1224) Cornelius Nepos (99-24 BC) Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus (c.28-c.103 AD) Dares Phrygius