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Edited by Demstrius (b. Athens 1423, d. Milan 1511) Chaleondyles. Florence: [Printer of Virgil
C 6061, probably Bartolommeo di Libri, and] Demetrius
Damilas for the brothers Bernardus + Nerius Nerlius (with the
financial support of Giovanni Acciaiuoli)
Vol I Iliad Vol II Odyssey
250 leaves 190 leaves

An earlier casting of the Homer type, the design of which
may have been modelled on Michael Apostolis's script
(sec N. Barkar, Aldus Marutius 28-31), had been used by
Damilas + Paravisinus for Lascaris's Erotemata (Milan:
1476), the 1st book printed entirely in Greek.
For the complications in trying to find an existing Florentine
might have employed for hteir Homer - the most
ambitious Greek production until the Aldine
Aristotle - see Proctor (The Printing of Greek 66-69)
HEHL #88367
The work commences with 2 prefaces, on ein Latin by B. Nerlius,
the other by Chalcondyle, the ed. in Greek. After the 2 prefaces
comes the biography of Homer from Herodotus, succeded by
the Preface to Plutarch's life fo the poet. The Iliad begins
on the recto of leaf 43 (AI) ending on the verso of
leaf 206. The 2nd vol. begins with the Odyssey without
preface, occupies 161 leaves + is followed by the
Batrachomgomachi occupying 4 leaves. The Hymns
begin on the recto of leaf 166 + and the Vol. on the verso
of leaf 189, the whole comcluding with a colophon of 9 lines
- A-D8 E10; A-Z ET7 Rx8; AA-ZZ8 ETET6 my leaf -LL8 (Odyssey XIII verse 300)

LLI-LL8, then MMI beginning last quarter of book.
LL III (Verso) title OΔYΣCEIAC N OMHPOY PAѰ[?]ΔEAC
MMI (recto) title YΠOΘEC[cannot insert character]C THC [cannot insert character] OMHPOYPAѰ[?]ΔEAC
43a Ilias; 251a, end FIET6
Odvσσeiu; 412a Batpaxomvomaxia; 416a, Hymns Yauri.

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