Homērou kai Hēsiodou agōn. Homeri et Hesiodi certamen. Nunc primùm luce donatum. Matronis et aliorum parodiae, ex Homeri versibus parua immutatione lepidè detortis consutae. Homericorum heroum epitaphia. Cum duplici interpretatione Latinia.
Henri Estienne (1531-1598)
Category
Books
Date
1573
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3198963
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 181, [3] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 5430. Provenance: manuscript initial on front pastedown: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript codes on front pastedown: "d.hr" and "cd.". Manuscript inscriptions on title page: "20" and "Eliae Vineti 20 s." [possibly Élie Vinet (1509-1587), French humanist, regent of the Collège du Guyenne (Bordeaux). Joseph Juste Scaliger was one of his pupils]. With manuscript marginal annotation on p. 5 and occasional underscoring of text. Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled calf; leather on covers is de-laminated and very worn; blind double fillet border, with blind roll pattern along spine-edge; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine; title label missing from spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Henri Estienne (1531-1598) Joseph Juste Scaliger (1540-1609) Matron of Pitana Homer (800 BC - 701 BC) Hesiod (c.8th century BC)