HOMERUS Poièsis Omèrou amfo ète Ilias kai è Odusseia [...] [Greek] = Opus utrumque Homeri Iliados et Odysseae, diligenti opera Iacobi Micylli & Ioachimi Camerarii recognitum. Adiecta etiam est eiusdem Batarchomyomachia [...]. Porphyrii philosophi Homericarum quaestionum liber. Eiusdem, de Numpharum antro in Odyssea, opusculum. Basel, J. Herwagen, Folio: [20]-(= 410)-[1 bl.-1]-314-[1 bl.-pp. (sl. toned, title with a few stains, old repair to blank fore-edge margin of 2 initial ff.). Contemp. blind-stamped pigskin over wood, from the workshop of the Wittenberg binder Thomas Krüger (d. 1591), bevelled edges, covers with central panel-stamp (Judith with the head of Holofernes) surrounded by roll-stamps, some with figures, spine with 4 raised bands, tooled metal clasps and catches (front joint split but firm, sl. soiled, tail def.). Good copy. Repr. of the ed. of a humanist scholarly ed. of Homer, with the Scholia of Didymus in smaller type (in italics). Woodcut mark on title, part titles and part ends. Entirely printed in Greek. Ref. VD-H-- Adams H-- Hoffmann II:- Not in STC German (BL). Prov. Above and below central panel of front cover blind-stamped monogram "G R M" and date "1560". - A few old annotations. - 18th-c. ownership entries on title and flyleaf of members of the Lauterbach family (Fraustadt, now Wschowa in Poland).
HOMERUS Poièsis Omèrou amfo ète Ilias kai è Odusseia [...] [Greek] = Opus utrumque Homeri Iliados et Odysseae, diligenti opera Iacobi Micylli & Ioachimi Camerarii recognitum. Adiecta etiam est eiusdem Batarchomyomachia [...]. Porphyrii philosophi Homericarum quaestionum liber. Eiusdem, de Numpharum antro in Odyssea, opusculum. Basel, J. Herwagen, Folio: [20]-(= 410)-[1 bl.-1]-314-[1 bl.-pp. (sl. toned, title with a few stains, old repair to blank fore-edge margin of 2 initial ff.). Contemp. blind-stamped pigskin over wood, from the workshop of the Wittenberg binder Thomas Krüger (d. 1591), bevelled edges, covers with central panel-stamp (Judith with the head of Holofernes) surrounded by roll-stamps, some with figures, spine with 4 raised bands, tooled metal clasps and catches (front joint split but firm, sl. soiled, tail def.). Good copy. Repr. of the ed. of a humanist scholarly ed. of Homer, with the Scholia of Didymus in smaller type (in italics). Woodcut mark on title, part titles and part ends. Entirely printed in Greek. Ref. VD-H-- Adams H-- Hoffmann II:- Not in STC German (BL). Prov. Above and below central panel of front cover blind-stamped monogram "G R M" and date "1560". - A few old annotations. - 18th-c. ownership entries on title and flyleaf of members of the Lauterbach family (Fraustadt, now Wschowa in Poland).
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