104
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QUINTUS of Smyrna.
Derelictorum ab Homero libri quatuordecim
[
with
TRYPHIODORUS,
De Trojae excidio,
and COLUTHUS,
De raptu Helenae
].
Greek
text. [172] leaves. 8vo, 159x94 mm, 19th-century green pebble-grain morocco gilt, spine
faded; contents clean; red edges. Armorial bookplate of Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921)
of Franche Hall, Worcestershire.
[
Venice: Aldus Manutius, circa 1505]
[8,000/12,000]
FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL GREEK
of 3 verse epics on Homeric subjects composed
between the 4th and 6th centuries, the first on events following those of the Iliad, the second on
the capture of Troy, and the third on the abduction of Helen. Renouard, page 261(14); New
UCLA 95; Hoffmann III, 337.
