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Odyssea de Erroribus Ulyxis, translated by Francesco Griffolini (1418-83). Strasbourg: Johann Schott for Georg Maxillus Uebelin, 24 May 1510. [Bound with:] HOMER. Ilias, translated by Lorenzo Valla. Venice: Johannes Tacuinus de Tridino, 25 February 1502.
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Odyssea de Erroribus Ulyxis, translated by Francesco Griffolini (1418-83). Strasbourg: Johann Schott for Georg Maxillus Uebelin, 24 May 1510. [Bound with:] HOMER. Ilias, translated by Lorenzo Valla. Venice: Johannes Tacuinus de Tridino, 25 February 1502.
Rare second separate edition of the Odyssey in the first prose translation by Francesco Griffolini, bound with the third edition of Valla’s prose translation of the Iliad. I : Adams H-796; Hoffmann II, 336 (‘almost never seen’); VD-16 H-4701. II: Adams H-781; Hoffmann II, 334.
2 works in one volume, folio (282 x 199mm). Woodcut historiated initials in second work (minor marginal repairs in first title, light dampstaining with occasional paper weakness, small puncture in several leaves in both works effecting a few letters). 16th-century pink-stained ?deerskin panelled in blind with gilt ornament at centre and corners, sides lettered ‘Nicolas’ ‘De Clicamp’ (repairs at spine, new endleaves, rubbed, lightly soiled). Provenance: Nicolas de Cli[n]camp (binding) – Jacques de Clinchamp (contemporary ownership note on flyleaf) – St. Stephan’s [Priory] of Le Plessis, Normandy (17th-century title inscription) – Robert Leveillé , 1748 (manuscript label pasted onto final verso – Bayeux, religious house (printed label on title).
Odyssea de Erroribus Ulyxis, translated by Francesco Griffolini (1418-83). Strasbourg: Johann Schott for Georg Maxillus Uebelin, 24 May 1510. [Bound with:] HOMER. Ilias, translated by Lorenzo Valla. Venice: Johannes Tacuinus de Tridino, 25 February 1502.
Rare second separate edition of the Odyssey in the first prose translation by Francesco Griffolini, bound with the third edition of Valla’s prose translation of the Iliad. I : Adams H-796; Hoffmann II, 336 (‘almost never seen’); VD-16 H-4701. II: Adams H-781; Hoffmann II, 334.
2 works in one volume, folio (282 x 199mm). Woodcut historiated initials in second work (minor marginal repairs in first title, light dampstaining with occasional paper weakness, small puncture in several leaves in both works effecting a few letters). 16th-century pink-stained ?deerskin panelled in blind with gilt ornament at centre and corners, sides lettered ‘Nicolas’ ‘De Clicamp’ (repairs at spine, new endleaves, rubbed, lightly soiled). Provenance: Nicolas de Cli[n]camp (binding) – Jacques de Clinchamp (contemporary ownership note on flyleaf) – St. Stephan’s [Priory] of Le Plessis, Normandy (17th-century title inscription) – Robert Leveillé , 1748 (manuscript label pasted onto final verso – Bayeux, religious house (printed label on title).
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