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tia00129500

Text-inc Id:
tia00129500
Bod-inc Id:
A-056
Headings:
Aesopus Aesopus moralisatus cum commento.
Analysis of content:
  1. A1r [Title-page and woodcut.]
  2. A1v [Wooodcut.]
  3. A2r [Anonymus Neveleti]: Aesopus moralisatus (metrical version of ‘Fables'). See Hervieux II 316-50 (under the name of Gualterus Anglicus). They appear in the following order (Hervieux numbers): prologue, i, xi, xii–xix, xxi, xx, xxi(a), xxii, xxiii, v, vii, viii, ix, x, xi, xxiii, xxiv–xxix, xxxi, xxx, xxxii–lx. For the authorship see Aesopus (ed. Draheim), 1-5 and Grubmüller, Esopus, 78. This collection is named after the edition of Isaac Nevelet of 1610.
  4. A2r Commentary on Aesopus moralisatus. Incipit: ‘Graecia disciplinarum mater et artium . . .’ Not the commentary in the ‘Auctores octo.' Campbell 38 ascribes commentary to Laurentius Valla.
Imprint:
[Antwerp]: Gerard Leeu, 14 May 1488. 4°.
Collation:
A–E6 [F4]. Woodcut of Aesop on A1r, repeated on A1v.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia00129500 GW 402; HC 303; BMC IX 191; Pr 9375; Campbell 38; CIBN A‑76; Douce Legacy 94 no. 144; Duff 4; HPT II 420; ILC 26; Oates 3908; Sheppard 7221. LCN: 14336917
Copies:
  1. A-056(1) Copy Wanting A3 and A4; A5 and A6 are bound before C1. The fables appear in the following order: prologue, i, [2 leaves wanting, and 2 leaves misplaced], xi [part], xii–xix, xxi, xx, xxi(a), xxii, xxiii [part], v, vii, viii, ix, x, xi [part], xxiii [part], xxiv–xxix, xxxi, xxx, xxxii–lx. Binding: Eighteenth-century calf; gold-tooled spine; marbled pastedowns. Size: 199 × 132 × 7 mm. Size of leaf: 193 × 131 mm. Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce 60.