Byzantine MS with music notation and interlinear transcription; paper; two inks; mounted [get date, provenance]
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
William Caslon 1785 (London) A Specimen of Printing Types | three leaves, with Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, and other scripts; various ornaments
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.
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
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
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