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Lot 47
Sale 470 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Nov 2, 2016
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(HOMER) VILLOISON, JEAN-BAPTISTE GASPARD D'ANSSE DE
Homeri Ilias ad veteris codicis Veneti fidem recensita.... Venice: Typis et sumptibus Fratrum Coleti, 1788.Modern rebinding, with ornamental half-leather over cloth boards (40 cm. tall). Contents collated as complete, with Prolegomena in Latin (i-lx), followed by 120 and 532 numbered pages, with text and commentary in Greek.A scholarly edition published after Villoison's discovery of the tenth century codex known as Venetus A, featuring ancient scholia and marginalia.


