Hē tou Homērou poiēsis hapasa ...
Homer.
Calcondila, Demetrio,1423-1511,editor.
Printer of Vergilius,printer.
Nerli, Bernardo,publisher.
Medici, Piero di Lorenzo de',1472-1503,dedicatee.
Nerli, Nerio,publisher.
Demetrius,of Crete,active 1476-1488,publisher.
Dio,Chrysostom.De Homero.
Steuart, David,1747-1824,associated name.StEdNL
Florence : [Printer of Vergilius (C 6061)], for Bernardus and Nerius Nerlius and Demetrius Damilas,
[not before 13 January 1488/1489]
Title, place of printing and publishers's names from colophon on leaf ETET5 verso, which reads in full: Hē tou Homērou poiēsis hapasa entypōtheisa peras eilēphen ēdē syn theō en phlōrentia, analōmasi men, tōn eugenōn kai agathōn andrōn, kai peri logous hellēnikous spoudaiōn Bernardou kai Nēriou tanaidos tou Neriliou phlōrentinoin. ponō de kai dexiotēti dēmētriou mediolaneōs krētos, tōn logiōn andrōn charin kai logōn hellēnikōn ephiemenōn, Etei tō apo tēs christou gennēseōs chiliostō tetrakosiostō ogdoēkostō ogdoō mēnos dekembriou enatē [i.e. 9 December 1488].
Dating of printing from dedicatory letter in Latin from Bernardus Nerlius to Petrus Laurentii de' Medici on leaf A1 recto, which is dated: Florentiae Idibus Ianuariis .M. CCCC. LXXXVIII.
On the press see R. Ridolfi, La stampa in Firenze nel secolo XV, Firenze, 1958, p. 98.
Attributed to the Nerlii in BM 15th cent., VI, 678-679, whereas Proctor assigned to Bartolommeo Di Libri, who Ridolfi argues only printed the dedication.
Edited by Demetrius Chalcondylas.
Due to an imposition error in the inner forme of conjoint leaves O2 and O7, the text on leaves O2v and O7r has been reversed: see BM 15th cent., VI, 679.
Spaces left blank for initials.
Signatures: A-D⁸ E¹⁰ ²A-²E⁸ F-Z⁸ ET⁸ [con]⁸ [Rum]⁸ AA-ZZ⁸ ETET⁶.
Leaves E10 and ETET6 blank.
With marginal annotations.
Include: Bernardus Nerlius. [Letter addressed to] Petrus Laurentii de' Medici, dated Florence, 13 January 1488/1489, A1r; Demetrius Chalcondylas. [Letter addressed to the readers], A1v-A2v; [Pseudo-] Herodotus. [Vita Herodotea], A3r-B1r; [Pseudo-] Plutarchus. De Homero, B1r-E7v; [Pseudo-] Dio Chrysostomus. "Peri Homērou logos NG", i.e. oratio 53, E7v-E9r; Homerus. Opera, ²A1r-ETET5v, including Ilias, Odyssea, Batrachomyomachia, Hymns; colophon, ETET5v. For further content details, see Bod-inc H-136.
BM 15th cent.,
BN cat. des incun.,
Bod-inc
BSB-Ink
Goff
GW
Hain-Copinger-Reichling
ISTC
Oates
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Hillyard, B. Acquisitions of Incunables by the Advocates Library before 1808,
Acquired by the Advocates Library not after 1807. There was a copy in David Steuart's 1801 sale (day 6, lot 51) but there is no evidence that this is that copy.
Red morocco with triple fillet gilt rolled border with central gilt stamped Bibliotheca Advocatorum on front and back boards, spine with six raised bands forming seven gilt tooled compartments, the second and third with title and imprint, double fillet gilt rolled board edges, gilt rolled turn-ins, gilt edges and marbled pastedowns and endpapers.
Greek poetry
Trojan War
Italy Florence.