Moralis interpretatio errorum Vlyssis Homerici
Subtitle: commentariis Porphyrii philosophi de Nympharum antro in XIII libro Odysseae Homericae, multiplici cognitio ne rerum uariarum instructissima ; ex commentarijs Procli Lycij, philosophi Platonici in libros Platonis de Repub. apologiae quaedam pro Homero, & fabularum aliquot enarrationes
By: interprete Conrado Gesnero medico, Tigurino
Publisher: Apud Froschouerum
Published: 1542
Place of publication: Omnia nunc primum nata, & excusa Tiguri
Language: lat
Translated from: grc
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Odyssey (Homer)
Other titles: Moralis interpretatio errorum Ulyssis Homerici
Notes: Translated from the Greek.

The authorship of the first work has been attributred (erroneously) to Necephorus Gregoras and to Gessner himself. Cf. Wellisch, and Guilland, R. Essai sur Nicéphore Grégoras, 1926, p. 114-115.

Date of publication follows VD 16. Adams has ca. 1542.

Signatures: A-M⁸.

Leaves printed on both sided. Verso of last leaf blank.

Historiated woodcut initials; printed marginal notes.

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, volume 2,1918

Verzeichnis der Drucke 16. / 17. Jahrhunderts (VD 16 / VD 17), P 4314

Wellisch, Hans H. Conrad Gessner: a bio-bibliography, A10

Bookplate: Ex libris Roderick Terry.

Bound in contemporary or near-contemporary black morocco, with marbled endpapers; spine and covers gilt, with title words in gilt on cover and spine; marbled edges.