manuscripts

Byzantine MS with music notation and interlinear transcription; paper; two inks; mounted [get date, provenance]

printed leaves

Demetrius Damilas / Bartolommeo di Libri 1488 (Florence) Homer Iliad and Odyssey | editio princeps for Homer | Greek type per Laskaris (Milan, 1476), after Michael Apostolis' hand | Chalcocondylis editing

Bernardinus de Choris 1492 (Venice) Nicolaus Perottus Cornucopia | Jensonian Latin with some embedded Greek, somewhat careless hand-inked initials

Zacharias Kalliergis 1499 (Venice) for Nicolaos Vlastos: Etymologicum Magnum | two inks; recto is section start for “beta followed by epsilon” | with handwritten annotations in the margin of the recto

Manutius & Asolanus 1513 (Venice) Nicolaus Perottus Cornucopia | in Aldine italic with few embedded Greek

Lucantonio Giunta 1588 (Venice) Hippocrates Opera | two columns, Latin and Greek on recto, Greek and L on verso

Oxford 1707 [some men] […] Suptuaginta Jnterpretetum | from Codex A of the Septuagint | two columns, Greek | Oxford edition edited by J E Grabe

pamphlets, specimens

William Caslon 1785 (London) A Specimen of Printing Types | three leaves, with Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, and other scripts; various ornaments

books up to 1599

Manutius & Asolanus 1536 (Venice) Greg. Nyssenus Του Αγίου Γρηγορίου Επισκόπου Νύσσης βίβλος περί ανθρώπου. | Greek text throughout | some writting on prelims in Latin, and ex libris

Estienne 1562 (Paris) Εκ του Κτησίου, Αγαθαρχίδου, Μέμνονος ιστορικών εκλογαί. Αππιανού Ιβηρική και Αννιβαϊκή [and Latin titles]. | Ktesius, Agatharchides, Memnon: historical selections, Appian: on Iberia and Hannibal | Latin prelims and corrections, Greek text throughout | cover boards detached | interesting Omicron-Ypsilon sort in titles

Estienne 1570 (Paris) Conciones sive orationes ex Græcis Latinísque historicis excerptæ | Greek and Latin interspersed

Estienne 1572 (Paris) Glossaria duo, è situ vetustatis eruta. Sive, Lexica duo antiqua: unum, Latinogræcum, alterum, Græcolatinum | First section: Latin-Greek and Greek-Latin dictionary [index]; second section De Atticæ linguæ seu dialecti idiomatis, comment. Henr. Stephani. text in Latin with embedded Greek

Estienne 1573 (Paris) Virtutum encomia: sive, gnomæ de virtutibus: ex poetis & philosophis utriusque linguæ. | Greek and Latin interspersed

Estienne 1575 (Paris) Των παλαιών ρητόρων λόγοι […]. Oratorum veterum orationnes[…] | First section all in Greek; second section in Latin

Plantin 1589 (Antwerp) Missa Apostolica, sive Η θεία λειτουργία του αγίου αποστόλου Πέτρου. | Greek and Latin in two columns, then Latin commentary | front cover board detached

Estienne 1591 (Paris) Των Δίωνος του Κάσσιου ρωμαϊκών ιστοριών βιβλία πέντε και είκοσι. Dionis Cassii romanarum historiarum libri XXV, ex Giulielmi Xylandri interpretatione. | Latin and Greek in parallel columns

Wechel 1594 (Frankfurt) Herodoti Halicarnassei historia libri IX: et de vita Homeri libellus. [Heirs of] Andreæ Wecheli | includes Henri Estienne's Apologia pro Herodoto.

books 1600–1699

Jacobus Lectius 1606 Οι της ηρωϊκής ποιήσεως παλαιοί ποιηταί πάντες. Poetæ Græci veteres carminis heroici scriptores. Avreliæ Allobrogvm, excudebat Petrus de la Rouiere (place?) | prelims and pp 1–80, then 83–84 missing; also pp 45–46 (last leaf) of index

Febvrier 1619 (Paris) Ηλιόδωρου αιθιοπικών βιβλία δέκα. Heliodori æthiopicorum libri X. | Greek and Latin in parallel columns | some wormhole and humidity damage

Cambridge 1640 Johannis Posselii Σύυνταξις Graeca utilissimis exemplis illustrata. Ex officina Roger Daniels | Latin and Greek interspersed and embedded | cover boards missing

Simon Benard 1687 (Paris) Novus apparatus Græco-Latinus. | Latin-Greek dictionary | Greek in type typical for the time | binding poor

books 1700–1799

Oxford 1702 Επίκτητου Εγχειρίδιον [κλπ.] Epicteti Enchiridion [etc.]. E Theatro Sheldoniano Impensis Georgii West | Greek and Latin on opposite pages

Wetstein 1707 (Amsterdam) Homeri opera. | Based on Estienne's and Chalco[co]ndylis' texts | Greek and Latin on opposite pages | Greek on dense non-joining type | 24 pp per sig on a very narrow format

Wetstein 1708 (Amsterdam) Luciani samosatensis colloquia selecta, & Timon.Cebetis thebani tabula. Menandri sententiæ morales. | Greek text in a non-joining type, then Latin commentary | 24 pp per sig

Oxford 1739 The destruction of Troy being the sequel of the Iliad. (Tryphiodorus) at the Sheldonian | complex setting with English text and Greek/English in footnotes; then Greek text folloowed by Latin translation, and Greek/Latin footnotes | a little Arabic in some footnotes | Greek looks like the Fell types

Foulis 1744 (Glasgow) Πλούταρχος Περί δεισιδαιμονίας, Ξενοφώντος Σωκράτης κ' Αριστόδημος Περί προνοίας· Πλάτωνος Αλκιβιάδης δεύτερος περί προσευχής [and Latin titles]. | (Plutarch On superstition, Xenophon Socrates & Alcibiades [title page is wrong: should be: Aristodemos] on providence [but text block is Διάλογος περί του Θεού | Dialogus de Deo], Plato Alcibiades secundus: de numine orando | duodecimo with a metal clasp

Foulis 1745 (Glasgow) Αριστοτέλους περί ποιητικής. Aristotelis de poetica. | Greek text throughout, with Latin commentary at the end

Hermann Besseling 1746 (Utrecht) Index verborum ac phrasium Luciani, sive lexicon Lucianeum (etc.) | Greek keywords

Foulis 1759 (Glasgow) Η Καινή Διαθήκη. Novum Testamentum. | Greek text throughout, in smallest Wilson type (Brevier?)

Eton 1762 Selecta ex poetis Græcis. Typis J Pote | Greek text with Greek and Latin footnotes | writing interspersed

Baskerville 1763 (Oxford) Η Καινή Διαθήκη. Novum Testamentum. e typographeo Clarendoniano | “Typis Joannis Baskerville” on title-page | binding loose on first copy; fine on second

Richardson & Clark 1767 (London) Gregory Sharpe The origin and structure of the Greek tongue, in a series of letters addressed to a young nobleman. | interspersed and embedded typesetting, the Greek often unaccented

Oxford 1786 Introduction to the writing of Greek. At the Clarendon Press | Greek grammar in two parts, with embedded Greek | followed by excerpts of Xenophon in mostly unaccented setting with English footnotes on verso, English translation on recto

Foulis 1770 (Glasgow) Anacreontis Carmina, cum Sapphonis et Alcaei fragmentis [on half-title] Αι του Ανακρέοντος Ωδαι, και τα της Σαπφούς, και τα του Αλκαίου λείψανα [on title-page]. | | Greek text with Latin footnotes

Oxford 1794 Aristotelis de poetica. E typographeo Clarendoniano | edited by Thomas Tyrwhitt | Greek text, Latin introduction, footnotes, and commentary | Greek looks like a Fell with no ligatures

Bensley 1799 (London) Edward Du Bois The wreath; composed of selections from Sappho, Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus (etc.). | frontispiece with engraving of the dead Adonis, eith six lines of Greek in a modulated non-joining style; engraving by Thurston & Neagle (spelling?) | luxurious setting, with texts on opposite pages | Greek mostly unaccented

books 1800–1899

Oxford 1800 Ομήρου Ιλιάς και Οδύσσεια. Εξ εργαστηρίου τυπογραφικού ακαδημίας της εν Οξονία (tr. “in the Oxford typographical workshop”) | Homer's Iliad in vol 1, Odyssey in vol 2 | Fell Greek throughout | title-page reads «έστιν αληθώς βασιλικόν πράγμα η Ομήρου ποίησις» | front cover board detached in vol 1

Bulmer 1802 (London) Anacreontis Odaria. | indulgent typesetting of Greek text, in an ambivalent modulated type | endnotes in Latin and Greek in a conventional type

Firmin Didot 1830 (Paris) L' Iliade D' Homere. vol 3 | Gree ktext on the verso, French on the recto | cap diacritics at 12 o'clock

Firmin Didot 1832 (Paris) Hymne d' Aristote a la vertu. | two leaves (eight pp) softbound with cord; French intro, Greek and French verses on opposite pages

Firmin Didot 1839 (Paris) Η Παλαιά Διαθήκη κατά τους Εβδομήκοντα. Vetus Testamentum Græcum juxta Septuaginta interpretes (etc.) 2 vols | Greek and Latin in parallel columns on each page | cap diacritics at 10 o'cloock

Liddell-Scott 1845 A Greek-English lexicon 2nd ed. Oxford, at the University Press | reference to Francis Passow on title-page

Estienne 1856 Aug[uste] Bernard Les Estienne et les types Grecs des annales Stéphaniennes. Edwin Tross, Paris | paperbound 72 pp | appendix includes specimen settings of four gres-du-roi, with accents and ligatures

Ambroise Firmin Didot 1883 (Paris) Fragmenta philosophorum Græcorum. Guil. Mullachius (ed) | Greek and Latin in parallel columns, interspersed in annotations and footnotes

Liddell-Scott 1883 A Greek-English lexicon 7th ed. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press

 
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