===== 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