[Hoi tês hêrôikês poiêseôs prosteuontes poiêtai ...]. Poetae graeci principes heroici carminis, & alii nonnulli.. Homerus, Theocrit. Musæus, Hesiodus, Moschus, Theognis, Orpheus, Bion, Phocylides, Callim. Dionysius, Pythagoræ aurea carmina. Aratus, Coluthus, Nicand. Tryphiodorus, fragmenta aliorum. Henrici Stephani tetrastichon de hac sua editione. ...
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1566
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3216776
Summary
Bibliographic description
20;LXXII;410,[2];[2],411-781,[3];LIIII,LVI-LVII; 58,57-236,236-282,"683","282","683",284-489,[2]p. ; fol. Imperfect: lacks first eight leaves, including titlepage. Pencil text marking and occasional annotation. Pencil manuscript Latin note at rear probably in the hand of William Windham III. Old Felbrigg shelfmark: [in pencil at front] Y7. Provenance: eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. William Windham (1717-1761)]. Pencil manuscript on pastedown: "A legacy to W Windham from Dr Johnson. See his life vol 2 p. 573 note." [Possibly from the library of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), but ...] Inscribed beneath plate: "This note is incorrect, as the volume contains at the end of the Odyssey, the date in Windham's handwriting of Jan 13t 1777, eight years before Johnson's death. RWKC" [i.e. Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969); dated note not seen]. Binding: seventeenth-century [?] sheep; gilt tooled spine (very worn); five raised bands.
Makers and roles
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC) Henri Estienne (1531-1598)