Homeri poetarvm svpremi Ilias per Lavrentivm Vallens. in latinvm sermonem tradvcta foeliciter incipit.

Accession number:

PML 17620

Author:

Homer.

Published:

Brixiȩ : He[n]ricus Coloniensis & Statius Gallicus foeliciter impressere, viii. k[a]l[ends] dece[m]br[is]. M.CCCC.LXXIIII [24 November 1474].

Description:

[156 or 160] leaves ; 31 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.

Notes:

Dedicatory letter from Justinianus Luzagus to Bernardus Justinianus (a1v-a2v) begins: Clarissimo viro Bernardo Iustiniano: eq̃ti aurato: ac oratori eloquẽtissimo Iustinianus Luzagus salutẽ.
Imprint from colophon, leaf t8v (GW 12897): Brixiȩ. viii. k[a]l[ends] dece[m]br[is]. M.CCCC.LXXIIII. He[n]ricus Coloniensis & Statius Gallicus foeliciter impressere.
Initial spaces, without guide letters.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.5 x 21 cm.
PML copy with a few leaves remargined.
Printed in Statius Gallicus's type 1:115R.
Signatures: a-o⁸ p¹⁰; [q-s¹⁰ t⁸]: 160 leaves. Variant collation of issue (GW 12896) with reset quires q-t and without colophon: a-o⁸ p¹⁰; [q¹⁰ r-t⁸]: 156 leaves. Signatures stamped by hand far down in right-hand corner and often trimmed away.
Title from incipit, leaf a3r.

Binding:

18th-century English sprinkled calf over paper boards (31.5 x 21.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports; rebacked by Sanford and Clarke. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.

Variant Title:

Title in ISTC : Ilias

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Luigi, duca di Cassano Serra (1727-1845); George John Spencer, 2nd earl (1758-1836), purchased Cassano Serra's library in 1807; Spencer duplicate sale, Evans, 2 March 1821, to Heber for £1.0.0; Richard Heber (1773-1833), purchase inscription, March 1821 (front fly leaf recto); Bibliotheca Heberiana sale, Part V, Wheatley, 19 Jan. 1835, lot 2263 to Cornish; A.W. Bruce, of Lincoln's Inn, signature abraded, 1835 (front fly leaf), through inheritance to: James Lewis Knight Bruce (1791-1866), of Roehampton, armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and John Wyndham Bruce (1802-1869), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 27 April 1870; Spencer Duff collection, cited in Voynich description; unidentified Voynich catalogue, no. 213 for £20 (description tipped-to front fly leaf); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Feb. 1911.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Sprinkled calf bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books