Accession number:
PML 55173-74
Published:
Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Asulani soceri, M.D.XXIIII. mense aprili [1524]
Description:
2 v. ([58], 277, [1]; 251, [1] leaves) ; 17 cm (8vo)
Notes:
Batrachomyomachia is no longer attributed to Homer.
Imprint from colophon in v. 1.
Life of Homer by Plutarch and from the Vita Homeri (attributed to Herodotus) at beginning of v. 1 (56 unnumbered leaves).
Printer's device on t.p. and verso of final leaf (Fletcher no. 6).
Reprint of 1504 Aldine ed., also printed in 1517 (see Renouard).
Signatures: v. 1: 1-7⁸ A-LL⁸ MM⁶; v. 2: a-z⁸ A-H⁸ I⁴.
Spaces with guide letters for capitals.
Title of v. 2: Ulyssea. Batrachomyomachia. Hymni. xxxii.
Binding:
16th-century Italian brown goatskin, with elaborate foliate and interlace gold-tooling including owner's name and Greek title on front covers, date of binding on back covers: M.D.XLV XVIII Gen. Bononiae [18 January 1545], by the Ebeleben Bindery in Bologna.
Variant Title:
Homeri Ilias
Provenance:
Damian Pflug (cousin of Nicholas von Ebeleben), gilt-tooled inscription (front covers); John Winston Spencer-Churchill (1822-1883), 7th Duke of Marlborough (Sunderland Library-Blenheim Palace bookplate; sold by Puttick & Simpson 19 July 1882, lot 6268, and Quaritch general catalogue, 1883, lot 12984); Charles Fairfax Murray (Sotheby's, 18 July 1919, lot 65); C.S. Ascherson (bookplate); John Roland Abbey, booklabel, purchased 18 Dec. 1945 (Sotheby's I, 21 June 1965, lot 384).
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