Note 10 — PREFACE
Mabel Osgood Wright translation
“Homeri Opera, græce. Florentiæ, sumptibus Bern. et Nerii Nerliorum. 1488.” Two volumes, folio. The first edition of Homer, printed at the expense of the brothers Nerli, after a copy prepared by Demetrius Chalcondyles of Athens. The De Cotte copy was uncut, and sold for 3601 francs. It was bought by M. Caillard, and passed into the Bibliothèque du Roi after his death, where it replaced a vellum copy that the French were constrained to return to the library of Saint Marc, Venice.