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159
Sept. 1983
Maggs, Bros., London
25L = $37.50
Homerus (Iliad+Odyssey ? 8th C. B.C.
[could not insert greek characters here caused save issues] ἅπασα (Opera) Greek. Odyssey XIII -330 line
with dedicatory letter dated 13 Jan 1488/89. Demetrius
Chalcondyles ed.

Florence: Bernardius Nerlius, Nerius Nerlius + (Bartolommco di Francesco di Libri)
leaf sold for $65 in 1974 Demetrius Damilas, '9 Dec. 1488'
[not before 13 Jan. 1488/89.] folio. (332x240mm)
Ref: Goff H 300 HCR 8772 BMC VI 678 Unrubricated.
Cop: HEHL, NYPL. ICI 4795 large caps (12 3/4" by 8 1/2" 13 3/8 x 8 1/2 12 3/8 x 8 7/8)

Vol I -250 Vol I -190 440 leaves, 42 +440 blank. 39 lines 237x123mm.
Types 121 Gk; 110 R signatures; 96 R. Capital spaces (32cm Rosenwald Collection)

- 2 books from this press - Homer, Virgil -1487
BMC - "The type of this 1st ed. of Homer is a recasting with many
new sorts making a total of more than 300, of the
type used in 1476 Lascaris printed at Milan by
Dionysius Paravisinus Goff L65 which was the 1st book printed
throughout in Greek"
- the 15th C brought forth no illustrated Homer because the sustere,
not to say pedantic, nature of the Humanists considered illustrated
books to be almost vulgar, unworthy of the "gravitas" of the
ancients.
- the Roman Empire of the East, Greek in language + institutions,
continued in existence until 1453, when it fell to the Turks, fully
1000 yrs after the Empire of the West had succumbed. (5th C0
Greek Printing Types Brit. Museum Ref Z251 G79B86f - Besides Milan, Florence was the special home of Greek printing
in the early period, the moving spirit being again Demetrius
Chalcondyles (1424-1511) an Athenian, who taught these from 1471-1492. Under his
auspices were produced at the end of 1488 the ed. princeps
of Homer, a large + beautiful folio: its type is that of the
Lescauis printed at Milan in 1476 + is still, as when first found
in charge of Demetrius Damilas (a Cretan)
Enstonate of Constantinus Lascaris - a Greek grammar -

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