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|author=[[:Category:Homer|Homer]]; [[:Category:Johannes Columbus|Johannes Columbus]]
|lang=[[:Category:Greek|Greek]] text and [[:Category:Latin|Latin]] translation on facing pages; subsequent notes chiefly in Latin
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}}[[File:IncertiScriptorisGraeciFabulae1745InitialCapital.jpg|left|thumb|200px|<center>Initial capital, page 69.</center>]]This collection of "an anonymous Greek writer’s allegories on the wanderings of Ulysses" or Odysseus is a translation by Johan Columbus (1640-1684), a Swedish humanist and Latin poetry professor at Upsala.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'' (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 4:418 [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648125;view=1up;seq=438 [no.4275]].</ref> First published in 1678, it includes Columbus’ annotations as well as his Latin translations of the original Greek, which are laid out on opposite pages of the book.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Included in a shipment sent by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to Wythe in 1787. The last two pages of the enclosed [[Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 16 September 1787|letter]] list the "Contents of the box marked G.W. "Fabulae Homericae de Ulixe. 8vo." is among the titles in the section "for Mr. Wythe." The precise edition is unknown. Both the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref> Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s. v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe"], accessed February 27, 2014.</ref> include the 1745 edition of  ''Incerti Scriptoris Graeci Fabulae Aliquot Homericae de Ulixis Erroribus'' as the edition Jefferson sent to Wythe&mdash;LibraryThing lists it as the "probable edition." [[Dean Bibliography|Dean's Memo]]<ref>[[Dean Bibliography|Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean]], Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 4 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</ref> suggests the 1754 edition. The Wolf Law Library followed the recommendations of Brown and LibraryThing and purchased the 1745 edition.
[[File:IncertiScriptorisGraeciFabulae1745LooseNotes.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Loose page of notes, filed at page 109.</center>]]
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in period style quarter-calf with marbled boards. Front free endpaper signed by previous owner; title page stamped "D<sup>r.</sup> Johannes Hertel." Copy includes a loose page of manuscript notes filed at page 109.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157637875820875 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991024642099703196 William & Mary's online catalog]
[[File:IncertiScriptorisGraeciFabulae1745Inscription.jpg|center|thumb|250px|<center>Inscription, front flyleaf.</center>]]

==See also==
*''[[Homeri Ilias]]''
*''[[Homerou Ilias kai Odysseia]]''
*''[[Homerou Iliados|Tēs tou Homērou Iliados]]''
*''[[Homērou Odysseia]]''
*''[[Homerou Odysseias|Tēs tou Homērou Odysseias]]''
*''[[Iliad of Homer|The Iliad of Homer]]''
*''[[Ilias kai eis Auten Scholia ton Palaion|Ilias kai eis Auten Scholia ton Palaion = Homeri Ilias et Veterum in eam Scholia, quae Vulgo Appellantur Didymi]]''
*''[[Odyssey of Homer|The Odyssey of Homer]]'' 
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
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==External Links==
Read this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=9ZM-AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books.]

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