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Homerus:
Opera [Greek]. Ed: Demetrius Chalcondylas

ISTC No.ih00300000
AuthorHomerus
TitleOpera [Greek]. Ed: Demetrius Chalcondylas
ImprintFlorence : [Printer of Vergilius (C 6061)], for Bernardus and Nerius Nerlius and Demetrius Damilas, [not before 13 Jan. 1488/89]
Imprint[Bartolommeo Di Libri],
Format
NotesOn the press see Ridolfi. BMC assigned to the Nerlii, and Proctor to Bartolommeo Di Libri, who Ridolfi argues only printed the dedication. The date derives from the dedication; the Greek text has a colophon (f.439v) dated 9 Dec. 1488
Language of itemgrc
Reference worksGoff H300; HCR 8772; GfT 2411; Ridolfi p.98; Pell Ms 6062 (6042); CIBN H-173; Aquilon 374; Arnoult 807; Buffévent 272; Parguez 552; Delisle 949; Polain(B) 1983; IBE 2931; IGI 4795; IBP 2840; IBPort 855; CCIR H-43; IDL 2350; SI 1954; Gspan-Badalić 777; Coll(U) 726; Coll(S) 531; Madsen 2001; Lőkkös(Cat BPU) 243; Martín Abad H-43; Günt(L) 1069; Voull(B) 2906; Kind(Göttingen) 172, 173; Walsh 2990, 2991; Oates 2348, 2349, 2350, 2351, 2352; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 927; Bod-inc H-136; Sheppard 5235, 5236; Pr 6194; BMC VI 678; BSB-Ink H-321; GW 12895
Related resourcesMicrofiche: Primary Source Microfilm (an imprint of Cengage Learning), 2001 & 2005. Incunabula: the Printing Revolution in Europe 1455-1500. Unit 45 - Printing in Greek, GK 47; Unit 71 - Printing in Florence Part I, FL 49
IISTC. Copy: London BL, IB.27657c

Holdings

ATInnsbruck, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol
Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Ink 4.E.7)
BEBrussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique
Antwerpen, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Bibliotheek
HRZagreb, Metropolitanska knjižnica
CZPraha, Národni knihovna České republiky
DKKøbenhavn, Det Kgl. Bibliotek
FRParis, Bibliothèque nationale de France (4, 1 fragments only)
Paris, Musée du Petit Palais
Chantilly, Musée Condé
Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale
Reims, Bibliothèque Carnegie
Saint-Chamond BM
Tours, Bibliothèque Municipale
DE

(2, 1 fragment)

(2)




(Inc.96a)
GRAthens, Gennadius Library
ITCortona, Biblioteca del Comune e dell’ Accademia Etrusca
Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (D'Elci 870-871)
Firenze, Biblioteca Marucelliana
Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale (2: Banco Rari 80, Banco Rari 81 vellum)
Firenze, Biblioteca Riccardiana (2)
Messina, Biblioteca Regionale Universitaria "Giacomo Longo" (2)
Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Milano, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense
Modena, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (2, 1 imperfect)
Napoli, Biblioteca nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III (4, 3 imperfect)
Napoli, Biblioteca Statale Oratoriana dei Girolamini
Napoli, Biblioteca Universitaria
Padova, Biblioteca del Seminario Vescovile
Palermo, Biblioteca Comunale
Parma, Biblioteca Palatina
Perugia, Biblioteca Augusta
Roma, Biblioteca Casanatense (2: Vol. Inc. 119, Vol. Inc. 1919/2)
Roma, Biblioteca dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana (49.G.21-22)
Torino, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria (2 imperfect)
Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana (4, 1 imperfect)
JPHiroshima University of Economics
NLAmsterdam, University Library, Allard Pierson (1)
Deventer, Athenaeumbibliotheek (148)
Groningen, Universiteitsbibliotheek (111)
Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek - Nationale Bibliotheek van Nederland (170 D 20)
Den Haag, Huis van het Boek (004 D 001)
Leeuwarden PB (16)
(250)
Rotterdam Mus. Boymans
PLKraków, Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, Biblioteka Czartoryskich
Warszawa, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka
PTMafra, Biblioteca do Palácio Nacional
Porto BM
ROAlba Iulia, Biblioteca Naţională a României, Biblioteca Batthyaneum
RUMoscow, Russian State Library (2, 1 Dresden copy)
St Petersburg, Russian Academy of Sciences
ESSan Lorenzo de El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio
Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España (2, 1 imperfect, wanting leaf B1)
Madrid, Real Biblioteca
Madrid, Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2, one imperfect)
Salamanca, Biblioteca General Histórica de la Universidad (wanting Ilias)
Sevilla BCap
SELund, Universitetsbibliotek (imperfect)
Stockholm, Kungliga Bibliotheket
Uppsala, Universitetsbibliotek
CHGenève, Fondation Martin Bodmer
Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève
GBBury St Edmunds, Cathedral Library
Cambridge, University Library (5, 4 imperfect)
Cambridge, Pembroke College (Iliad only)
Cambridge, St John's College
Cambridge, Trinity College (2)
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum
Chatsworth, Chatsworth House, Devonshire Collections, Library
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland (Inc.214)
Edinburgh, University Library
Eton, Eton College Library (2)
Glasgow, University Library (Hunterian)
Norfolk, Holkham Hall Library
Longleat Library and Archive (Sold Christie's, 30 March 1994, lot 46.)
London, University of London, Senate House Library
London, King's College
London, Royal College of Physicians
Manchester, University of Manchester, John Rylands Research Institute and Library (2: 3246, Christie 29a2,3)
Manchester, Chetham's Library
Oxford, Bodleian Library (3, 2 imperfect)
Oxford, Corpus Christi College
Oxford, Exeter College
Oxford, New College
Oxford, Queen's College
Oxford, Trinity College
Windsor, Royal Library
(IB.27657a) (Bound in two volumes)
(C.5.c.1 = IB.27657b)
(G.8843, 8844 = IB.27657c) (Bound in two volumes)
(MS.Add.10627) (Imperfect, wanting the first five quires and the last two leaves, and has three leaves inserted, probably originally belonging to this copy and extracted from MS. Add.8232; not in BMC. IB.27657 (Charles Burney's copy) was sold as a duplicate July 1931 (sold again Christie's (New York) 22 Oct. 1987 (Doheny) 118; see also 'Incunables', Librairie Thomas-Scheler (Paris), April 1994, 28))
USBoston MA, Public Library
Williamstown MA, Williams College, Chapin Library
New York NY, Columbia University, Butler Library
Chicago IL, University of Chicago Libraries, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center (Frag.)
Durham NC, Duke University, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Cambridge MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library (2)
San Marino CA, Huntington Library
Claremont CA, Claremont Colleges, Honnold Library, Bodman Collection
Stanford CA, Stanford University, Green Library
Bloomington IN, Indiana University, Lilly Library
Baltimore MD, Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries
Washington DC, Library of Congress, Rare Book Division (I, 2, II)
Washington DC, Library of Congress, Rare Book Division, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (II, vell)
Chicago IL, The Newberry Library
New York NY, Public Library, Rare Book Division (2)
New York NY, Public Library, Berg Collection
New York NY, The Morgan Library and Museum
Dallas TX, Southern Methodist University, Bridwell Library
Princeton Univ., Firestone Library (2)
New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University, Alexander Library
Toledo OH, Toledo Museum of Art, TMA Art Reference Library
Los Angeles CA, University of California
Austin TX, University of Texas, Harry Ransom Center
Baltimore MD, The Walters Art Museum Library
New Haven CT, Yale University, Center for British Art
New Haven CT, Yale University, Beinecke Library
Frank D. Crane, Madison WI
Francis Kettaneh, New York NY (Sold.)
Princeton Univ., Scheide Library
VACittà del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (4: Inc.I.50, Stamp.Chig.II.1447, Membr.I.24, Inc.II.17)
noofcopies131
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Homerus:
Opera [Greek]. Ed: Demetrius Chalcondylas

idih00300000
authorHomerus
titleOpera [Greek]. Ed: Demetrius Chalcondylas
imprintFlorence : [Printer of Vergilius (C 6061)], for Bernardus and Nerius Nerlius and Demetrius Damilas, [not before 13 Jan. 1488/89]
imprint[Bartolommeo Di Libri],
dimensions
notesOn the press see Ridolfi. BMC assigned to the Nerlii, and Proctor to Bartolommeo Di Libri, who Ridolfi argues only printed the dedication. The date derives from the dedication; the Greek text has a colophon (f.439v) dated 9 Dec. 1488
languageofitemgrc
referencesGoff H300; HCR 8772; GfT 2411; Ridolfi p.98; Pell Ms 6062 (6042); CIBN H-173; Aquilon 374; Arnoult 807; Buffévent 272; Parguez 552; Delisle 949; Polain(B) 1983; IBE 2931; IGI 4795; IBP 2840; IBPort 855; CCIR H-43; IDL 2350; SI 1954; Gspan-Badalić 777; Coll(U) 726; Coll(S) 531; Madsen 2001; Lőkkös(Cat BPU) 243; Martín Abad H-43; Günt(L) 1069; Voull(B) 2906; Kind(Göttingen) 172, 173; Walsh 2990, 2991; Oates 2348, 2349, 2350, 2351, 2352; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 927; Bod-inc H-136; Sheppard 5235, 5236; Pr 6194; BMC VI 678; BSB-Ink H-321; GW 12895
relatedresourcesMicrofiche: Primary Source Microfilm (an imprint of Cengage Learning), 2001 & 2005. Incunabula: the Printing Revolution in Europe 1455-1500. Unit 45 - Printing in Greek, GK 47; Unit 71 - Printing in Florence Part I, FL 49
IISTC. Copy: London BL, IB.27657c

holdings

AustriaInnsbruck, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol
Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Ink 4.E.7)
BelgiumBrussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique
Antwerpen, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Bibliotheek
CroatiaZagreb, Metropolitanska knjižnica
Czech RepublicPraha, Národni knihovna České republiky
DenmarkKøbenhavn, Det Kgl. Bibliotek
FranceParis, Bibliothèque nationale de France (4, 1 fragments only)
Paris, Musée du Petit Palais
Chantilly, Musée Condé
Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale
Reims, Bibliothèque Carnegie
Saint-Chamond BM
Tours, Bibliothèque Municipale
GermanyBerlin, Staatsbibliothek
Bonn, Universitäts und Landesbibliothek
Göttingen, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (2, 1 fragment)
Jena, Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek (2)
München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Nürnberg, Stadtbibliothek
Oldenburg, Landesbibliothek
Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek
Weimar, Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek (Inc.96a)
GreeceAthens, Gennadius Library
ItalyCortona, Biblioteca del Comune e dell’ Accademia Etrusca
Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (D'Elci 870-871)
Firenze, Biblioteca Marucelliana
Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale (2: Banco Rari 80, Banco Rari 81 vellum)
Firenze, Biblioteca Riccardiana (2)
Messina, Biblioteca Regionale Universitaria "Giacomo Longo" (2)
Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Milano, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense
Modena, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (2, 1 imperfect)
Napoli, Biblioteca nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III (4, 3 imperfect)
Napoli, Biblioteca Statale Oratoriana dei Girolamini
Napoli, Biblioteca Universitaria
Padova, Biblioteca del Seminario Vescovile
Palermo, Biblioteca Comunale
Parma, Biblioteca Palatina
Perugia, Biblioteca Augusta
Roma, Biblioteca Casanatense (2: Vol. Inc. 119, Vol. Inc. 1919/2)
Roma, Biblioteca dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana (49.G.21-22)
Torino, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria (2 imperfect)
Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana (4, 1 imperfect)
JapanHiroshima University of Economics
The NetherlandsAmsterdam, University Library, Allard Pierson (1)
Deventer, Athenaeumbibliotheek (148)
Groningen, Universiteitsbibliotheek (111)
Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek - Nationale Bibliotheek van Nederland (170 D 20)
Den Haag, Huis van het Boek (004 D 001)
Leeuwarden PB (16)
Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek (250)
Rotterdam Mus. Boymans
PolandKraków, Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, Biblioteka Czartoryskich
Warszawa, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka
PortugalMafra, Biblioteca do Palácio Nacional
Porto BM
RomaniaAlba Iulia, Biblioteca Naţională a României, Biblioteca Batthyaneum
RussiaMoscow, Russian State Library (2, 1 Dresden copy)
St Petersburg, Russian Academy of Sciences
SpainSan Lorenzo de El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio
Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España (2, 1 imperfect, wanting leaf B1)
Madrid, Real Biblioteca
Madrid, Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2, one imperfect)
Salamanca, Biblioteca General Histórica de la Universidad (wanting Ilias)
Sevilla BCap
SwedenLund, Universitetsbibliotek (imperfect)
Stockholm, Kungliga Bibliotheket
Uppsala, Universitetsbibliotek
SwitzerlandGenève, Fondation Martin Bodmer
Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
(5, 4 imperfect)
(Iliad only)

(2)


(Inc.214)

(2)
(Hunterian)

(Sold Christie's, 30 March 1994, lot 46.)



(2: 3246, Christie 29a2,3)

(3, 2 imperfect)






London, British Library (IB.27657a) (Bound in two volumes)
London, British Library (C.5.c.1 = IB.27657b)
London, British Library (G.8843, 8844 = IB.27657c) (Bound in two volumes)
London, British Library (MS.Add.10627) (Imperfect, wanting the first five quires and the last two leaves, and has three leaves inserted, probably originally belonging to this copy and extracted from MS. Add.8232; not in BMC. IB.27657 (Charles Burney's copy) was sold as a duplicate July 1931 (sold again Christie's (New York) 22 Oct. 1987 (Doheny) 118; see also 'Incunables', Librairie Thomas-Scheler (Paris), April 1994, 28))
United States of America


(Frag.)

(2)





(I, 2, II)
(II, vell)

(2)



(2)


Los Angeles CA, University of California
Austin TX, University of Texas, Harry Ransom Center
Baltimore MD, The Walters Art Museum Library
New Haven CT, Yale University, Center for British Art
New Haven CT, Yale University, Beinecke Library
Frank D. Crane, Madison WI
Francis Kettaneh, New York NY (Sold.)
Princeton Univ., Scheide Library
Vatican CityCittà del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (4: Inc.I.50, Stamp.Chig.II.1447, Membr.I.24, Inc.II.17)
Number of holding institutions131
Last Edit2024-10-09 18:00:00.00