Bod-Inc: H-140
Homerus
Iliados libri aliqui.
Analysis of Content
[a2r] [Gaza], Theodorus: [Letter addressed to] Laelius de Valle. Incipit: ‘[C]um te, Leli, vir prestantissime, sepulchrum concedere Nicolao filio . . .’
[a4r] Homerus: Iliados libri aliqui. Translated by Nicolaus de Valle. [Liber III.] Incipit: ‘[E]t postquam eratas struxere in bella cohortes. | Dardanide et cantu strepuerunt classica rauco . . .’
[b1r] [Liber IV.] Incipit: ‘[A]nte Iouem interea diuum conuenerat ordo | Sideream in sedem cunctisque loquentibus Hebe . . .’
[c1r] [Liber V.] Incipit: ‘[S]ic iam Tytide(!) Dyomedi Pallas Athena | Fulgorem uiresque dedit quo maior in omnes . . .’
[e1r] [Liber XIIII.] Incipit: ‘[I]upiter ut Troias admouit et Hectora classi | Hos penes armorum studium bellique laborem . . .’
[f1r] [Liber XVIII.] Incipit: ‘[F]lammarum in morem pugnabant Troes et Argi | Nec mora Nestorides magno festinat Achilli . . .’
[f10v] [Liber XIX.] Incipit: ‘[A]urora interea roseos induta colores | Surgit ab occeano terrisque et lumina celo . . .’
[g1r] [Liber XX.] Incipit: ‘[H]ic coram inuicti conspectu armantur Achillis | Ante rates Danai sublimi in uertice campi . . .’
[h1r] [Liber XXII.] Incipit: ‘[H]ic fugiunt muros et propugnacula complent | Ceruorum de more Phriges sudoris anheli . . .’
[i1r] [Liber XXIII.] Incipit: ‘[D]ardanide totam fundunt lamenta per urbem | At Danai littus repetunt maris Hellesponti . . .’
[k1r] [Liber XXIV.] Incipit: ‘[E]t iam finis erat ludorum. Effusa iuuentus | Ad naues festinat iter. Labor omnibus idem . . .’
[l6r] [Verse addressed to the reader.] ‘Ad lectorem.’ Incipit: ‘Qui legis emenda liuor discede reuersus | In Latium duce me magnus Homerus erat'; 2 elegiac distichs.
[l6r] [Registrum.]
[l6r] ‘Lelius de Valle in memoriam filii.’
Imprint
Imprint: Rome: Johannes Philippus de Lignamine, 1 Feb. 1474. 4°.
Collation
Collation: [a12 b10 c8 d8 e12 f10 g–k8 l6].
References
ISTC: ih00310000
Hain: HCR 8780;
Goff: Goff H‑310;
BMC: BMC IV 33;
Proctor: Pr 3395;
Others: CIBN H‑178; Sack, Freiburg 1857; Sheppard 2715.
LCN: 14461902
Copies
Copy number: H-140(1)
Wanting the blank leaf [a1], and [l5].
Binding: Parchment; marbled-edged leaves. ‘66' in brown ink, on the head of the upper cover.
Size: 275 × 196 × 24 mm.
Size of leaf: 268 × 190 mm.
Contemporary marginal notes, mainly extracting key words and supplementing the text, in a faded red ink, on [a4, 5]; in brown ink on [f1r]. On [a3v] bibliographical notes in a seventeenth/eighteenth-century(?) hand.
Provenance: Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘VIII.H.d.5': see Lee, Royal Bookplates, 41 no. 24; sale, pt IV, lot 1150. Purchased for £1. 5. 0; see Books Purchased (1846), 18.
SHELFMARK: Auct. K 4.42.
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