Homērou Ilias ; [Odysseia ; Batrachomyomachia ; Hymnoi 1b]
Subtitle: Homeri Ilias ; [Vlyssea ; Batrachomyomachia ; Hymni XXXII]
Contributors: Torresanus, Andreas, de Asula, 1451-1529; Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515; Melanchthon, Philip, 1497-1560, donor; Luther, Martin, 1483-1546, addressee; Torresani, family of printers, printer; Manuzio (Firm); Homer
Publisher: In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Asulani soceri
Published: 1517
Place of publication: Venetiis
Language: grc
Other titles: Homeri Ilias; Ilias; Battle of the frogs and mice.; Homeric hymns.
Work titles: Works
Notes: Imprint from colophon, v. [2].

Signatures: v. 1: 1-7⁸ A-2L⁸ 2M⁶; v. 2: a-z⁸ A-H⁸ I⁴.

Last leaf of v. [1] blank.

Vol. 1: [56], 277, [1] leaves ; Vol. 2: 251, [1] leaves.

Aldine device on t.p. and verso of final leaf of each vol.; capital spaces with guide letters.

The second Aldine edition. Each vol. has a distinct pagination. The life of Homer is on 56 unpaged leaves.

Includes register.

Rare Book copy: Pagination: v.1. 177, [1] leaves ; v.2. 251, [1] leaves, [56] leaves.

Rare Book copy: Signatures: v. 1. A-2L8, M4; v. 2 a-z8, A-H8, I4, 1-7.

Rare Book copy: Volume 1, copy 1: Worm hole in first two leaves with slight loss of text.

Rare Book copy: Volume 1, copy 2: Last leaf, blank, wanting.

Rare Book copy: Volume 2: Signature p either misbound or misprinted as 113, 116, 115, 114, 117, 110 [sic], 119, 118.

Rare Book copy: Volume 2: Trimmed with slight loss of annotations in margins.

Rare Book copy 2: Water damage, particularly at bottom of leaves at beginning of text; final four leaves repaired at top.

Rare Book copy 1: Inscribed by Philipp Melanchthon to Martin Luther. Extensively annotated throughout, in more than one hand, probably including Philipp Melanchthon. The notes seem to be lecture notes, either Melanchthon's preparatory notes or by students.

Rare Book copy 1: Bound in alum-tawed pigskin decorated in blind with tools and rolls. Remnants of 2 clasps on fore-edge.

Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'impr. des Alde, 3. éd., p. 80, no. 3

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, H742

BM STC Italian, 330

HRHRC, 139-140

Aldine Press. Catalogue of the Aldine Collection, UCLA, 153

Online version available via Columbia University Libraries Digital Collections.

Text in Greek.