Homer's Iliad
16.10.2025 10:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1471949
Lot 26 | Homer's Iliad
Estimate value
6000USD $ 6 000 – 8 000
Early edition of Homer’s Iliad, in a contemporary Dutch binding from Sint-Truiden Abbey. A large copy. The eminent humanist and Renaissance scholar Lorenzo Valla translated many works out of Greek for the court of Alfonso V of Aragon including the present Latin prose edition of the Iliad, widening the dissemination of Homer across Renaissance Europe. This copy’s early annotations in both Latin and Greek show scholarly engagement. Its manuscript endleaves are from an unidentified Latin text, possibly a uroscopy or larger medical text. H 8775*; Bod-inc H-142; BMC VII 986; BSB-Ink H-320; CIBN H-177; GW 12898; Goff H-312; ISTC ih00312000.
Median folio (322 × 216mm). 88 leaves (of 90, lacking 2 preliminary leaves). Contemporary manuscript initials (first and last leaves lightly soiled, few small stains, small wormholes in final quire). Contemporary Netherlandish calf over paper boards attributed to Sint-Truiden Abbey, Limburg, panel design tooled in blind, Greek and Latin manuscript titling in blind on covers, spine lettered in gold, remains of four ties, manuscript endleaves from a Latin ?uroscopy (upper board detached, cracks, few small wormholes). Provenance: contemporary annotations in Latin and Greek in one hand throughout – Howard Lehman Goodhart (1884–1952; label; gifted to his daughter:) – [Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (1913–1994; leather label)]; by descent.
Place of origin: | Italy |
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Auction house category: | Printed books |
Place of origin: | Italy |
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Auction house category: | Printed books |
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