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Title(s):
Fabule [et] vita Esopi, cum fabulis Auiani, Alfonsij, Pogij Florentini, [et] aliorum, cum optimo co[m]mento, bene diligenterq[ue] correcte [et] emendate.
Additional Title(s):
Aesop's fables. Latin.
Published/Created:
[Antwerp] : [Gerardus Leeu], [26 Sept. 1486]
Physical Description:
[104] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 27 cm (fol.)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0447
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Compiled by Heinrich Steinhöwel and originally published ca. 1477 (Ulm, Zainer). Cf. Steinhöwels Äsop, edited by H. Österley, 1873 (Bibliothek des Litterarischen Vereins in Stuttgart, 117).
Contains the Vita, translated by Rinuccio; Fabulae, books 1-4 in the prose version of Romulus, and the metrical version of books 1-3 of Anonymus Neveleti; Fabulae extravagantes; Fabulae novae, translated by Rinuccio; Fabulae, by Avianus; Fabulae collectae, by Petrus Alfonsi, Poggio, and others.
Incunabula short title catalogue, ia00114000
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A114
Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 329
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 349
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, IX, p. 187 (IB. 49750)
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0447: Imperfect: two leaves only (incipit leaf and leaf b3), with woodcut illustrations. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Aesop.
Fables, Greek -- Translations into Latin.
Incunabula in Yale Library.
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:
Aesop.
Steinhöwel, Heinrich, 1412–1482?, compiler.
Rinuccio, d'Arezzo, approximately 1395–approximately 1457.
Romulus.
Anonymus Neveleti.
Avianus.
Petrus Alfonsi, 1062–1110?
Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380–1459.
Leeu, Gerard, approximately 1445–1493, printer.
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