De la Vlyxea de Homero XIII. libros / traduzidos de griego en romance castellano por Gonçalo Perez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Homer.

Contributor:

Pérez, Gonzalo, approximately 1506-1566, translator.

Portonariis, Andrés de, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Odyssey. Spanish

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character)--Early works to 1800.

Odysseus.

Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character).

Homer.

Trojan War--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Trojan War.

Epic poetry, Greek--Translations into Spanish.

Epic poetry, Greek.

Homer--Translations into Spanish.

Genre:

Epic poetry, Greek.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Liechtenstein, House of (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Franz Josef II, Prince of Liechtenstein, 1906-1989 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered leaves, 250 leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

De la Ulyxea de Homero XIII. libros

Fingerprint:

z.a. dono e,an YqAl (3) 1550 (A)

Place of Publication:

Impresso en Salamanca : En casa de Andrea de Portonariis, 1550.

Notes:

Leaves printed on both sides.

Signatures: 2a⁴ A-Z⁸ a-h⁸ i⁴.

First edition of the first Spanish translation of Homer's Odyssey.

Woodcuts: vignette on title page; tailpiece; initials.

Vignette on title page is printer's device; full page variant device on verso of last leaf.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate of the Princes of Liechtenstein ("Ex Libris Liechtensteinianis") above arms of the House of Liechtenstein with chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece, possibly associated with Prince Franz Joseph II (1906-1989).

Cited in:

Palau y Dulcet (2 ed.) 115891

Shaaber, M.A. 16th cent. imprints, H293

Gonzalez Palencia, A. Gonzalo Pérez, I, p. 344

BL Spanish, pre-1601 (2nd ed.), p. 98

OCLC:

25885805