Carmina Homerica, Ilias et Odyssea : a rhapsodorum interpolationibus repurgata, et in pristinam formam, quatenus recuperanda esset, tam e veterum monumentorum fide et auctoritate, quam ex antiqui sermonis indole ac ratione, redacta
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Type of record: Book
Title: Carmina Homerica, Ilias et Odyssea : a rhapsodorum interpolationibus repurgata, et in pristinam formam, quatenus recuperanda esset, tam e veterum monumentorum fide et auctoritate, quam ex antiqui sermonis indole ac ratione, redacta
Classmark: Greek B-1/HOM
Creator(s): Homer
Additional creator(s): Knight, Richard Payne (1751-1824) (Other)
Related people: Knight, Richard Payne
Publisher: in ædibus Valpianis; apud Treuttel et Wurtz, bibliopolas
Publication city: Londini : Parisiis et Argentorati
Date(s): 1820
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Size and medium: 109, 514, 105 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/195999
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991009452589705181
Description
"In 1808 he [Knight] printed privately fifty copies (London, 8vo) of his 'Carmina Homerica, Ilias et Odyssea'. This consists of Prolegomena, the text being added in the later edition of 1820. 8vo. His object was to restore the text to its supposed original condition, and he introduced the digamma and various early forms."--Dict. nat. biog., v. 31, p. 259.
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