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Aesopus

Vita et Fabulae.

 

Analysis of Content

Aesopus (ed. Österley), 4-350; see L. Hervieux, Les fabulistes latins, 5 vols (Paris, 1893-9) (= Hervieux) I 349-57. Edited by Heinrich Steinhöwel. For Steinhöwel as an editor see R. T. Lenaghan, ‘Steinhöwel's Esopus and Early Humanism', Monatshefte für deutschen Unterricht, deutsche Sprache und Literatur, 60 (1968), 1-8 (= Lenaghan, ‘Steinhöwel'), 1-8.

a1v [Woodcut.]

a2r Vita Aesopi [Latin]. Translated by Rinucius Aretinus. Aesopus (ed. Österley), 6-38. Perry, Aesopica, 1-32 discusses the textual tradition of the ‘Life'. For stemma of this recension and the transmission of the text see Perry, Aesopica, 28-32. The usual dedicatory letter to Antonius de la Cerda and the ‘Argumentum' to the ‘Life' are not included, although the letter's introductory phrase has been retained.

c7r ‘Registrum fabularum Esopi in librum primum.’ Aesopus (ed. Österley), 77.

c7v [Anonymus Neveleti]: Fabulae (accompanying metrical version, in Latin). Aesopus Latinus, ed. Hans Draheim, Jahresbericht von dem Direktor vom Königlichen Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin, 1892/3 (Berlin, 1893), 8-33, nos i–lviii, Hervieux II 316-46 (under the name of Gualterus Anglicus), and Aesopus (ed. Österley), 78-191. For the authorship see Aesopus (ed. Draheim), 1-5 and K. Grubmüller, Meister Esopus (Zurich, 1977) (= Grubmüller, Esopus), 78. This collection is named after the edition of Isaac Nevelet of 1610; see Henkel, Schultexte, 288-90.

c7v Aesopus: Fabulae [Latin]. Translation associated with the name ‘Romulus', ‘recensio gallicana.’ Aesopus, Der lateinische Äsop des Romulus und die Prosa-Fassungen des Phädrus, ed. Georg Thiele (Heidelberg, 1910) (= Aesopus (ed. Thiele)), 2, and nos I, III–VI, VIII, X–XVII, XIX–XXIV; XXVIa, [1 unidentified], XXVIII–XXXIII, XXXV–XXXVI, XXXIX–XL, XLII–XLV, XLVII, [1 unidentified], XLVIII–XL; LI–LVII, LIX–LXX; LXXI (Steinhöwel), LXXII–LXXIX, LXXXIII, LXXXV–LXXXVI, LXXXXIX–XCV, [1 unidentified]. Aesopus (ed. Österley), 78-191. For the authorship see Caxton's Aesop, ed. R. T. Lenaghan (Cambridge, Mass., 1967) (= Aesopus (ed. Lenaghan)), 6, and Grubmüller, Esopus, 67-85.

k3r Aesopus: Fabulae extravagantes [Latin]. Edited by Heinrich Steinhöwel. Hervieux II 262-301, appearing in the following order: 262-90, nos xxvi–xxviii, xxx–xxxvi; 290-301, no. i; 262-90, no. xxxix; 290-301, nos ii–vi. Aesopus (ed. Österley), 192-242. For the authorship see Aesopus (ed. Lenaghan), 6-7.

m2v ‘Registrum fabularum predictarum extrauagantium.’

m2v Aesopus: XVII fabulae novae [Latin]. Translated by Rinucius Aretinus. Aesopus (ed. Österley), 243-60. The fables are listed in order in Th. O. Achelis, ‘Die hundert äsopischen Fabeln des Rinucci da Castiglione', Philologus, 83 (1928), 55-88, at 63-5, and Lockwood, ‘Rinucius', 62, whose list appears to coincide with Achelis's, and gives the numbers from Aesopus (ed. Halm); the corresponding numbers in Aesopus (ed. Hunger–Hausrath) are: 2, 3, 9, 16, 19, 284, 11, 81, Halm 100, Halm 353, 176, 172, 183, 216, Halm 425, 31, 42. For the relationship between Rinucius's fable collection and those chosen by Steinhöwel: see T. O. Achelis, ‘Die Fabeln des Rimicius in Steinhöwel's Aesop', Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 19 (1887), 315-30. On the Greek sources for Rinucius's translations of the Life and the Fables: see Perry, ‘Greek Sources', 53-62. For the authorship see Aesopus (ed. Lenaghan), 7. In some Latin versions, this selection from the corpus ascribed to Rinucius is called ‘Fabulae novae translationis.’

n2v ‘Registrum fabularum predictarum.’

n3r Avianus: XXVII fabulae [Latin]. Avianus, The Fables, ed. Robinson Ellis (Oxford, 1887) (= Avianus (ed. Ellis)) and Avianus, Fables, ed. Françoise Gaide (Paris, 1980) (= Avianus (ed. Gaide)), in the following order in this edn: 1-3, 5-9, 11, 13-15, 17-20, 22, 25-9, 31, 33, 35, 41-2; Aesopus (ed. Österley), 261-93. For a concordance with fables in Aesopus (ed. Chambry), and those in Babrius and Phaedrus, ed. B. E. Perry (London, 1965) (= Babrius–Phaedrus) see Avianus (ed. Gaide), 144-5. On the sources of Avianus see Avianus (ed. Gaide), 39-45, and Aesopus (ed. Lenaghan), 10. Fables v and xii each have an extra couplet added at the beginning. The incipit for fable v (Avianus (ed. Ellis) and Avianus (ed. Gaide) no. 6) is: ‘Ne sibimet quisque de rebus inaniter ullis . . .'; and that for fable xii (Avianus (ed. Ellis) and Avianus (ed. Gaide) no. 15) is: ‘Si quadam virtute nites non despice quemquam . . .’ For the authorship and dating of Avianus see Avianus (ed. Gaide), 7-12, 25-7.

p2r ‘Fabularum Auiani antedictarum registrum.’

p2v [Petrus] Alphonsus: XV fabulae collectae [Latin]. Aesopus (ed. Österley), 294-333. The fables are based on those in the Disciplina clericalis: see PL CLVII 671-706, Petrus Alphonsus, Die disciplina clericalis des Petrus Alphonsi, ed. Alfons Hilka and Werner Söderhjelm (Heidelberg, 1911) and Petrus Alphonsus, Disciplina clericalis, with introduction and notes by María Jesús Lacarra, and trans. Esperanza Ducay (Saragossa, 1980); see also Haim Schwarzbaum, ‘International Folklore Motifs in Petrus Alphonsi's Disciplina clericalis’, Sefarad, 21 (1961), 267-99, Sefarad, 22 (1962), 17-59, 321-44, Sefarad, 23 (1963), 54-73. On authorship see Aesopus (ed. Lenaghan), 8.

q4v Poggius [Florentinus]: VIII fabulae [Latin]. Poggio Bracciolini, Facezie, tr. with notes by Marcello Ciccuto (Milan, 1983): the following fables appear in this edn: xvi = I,x; xvii = I,i; xviii = I,vi; xix = xliii; xx = I,ii; xxi = unidentified; xxii = unidentified; xxviii = I,lxxix. Aesopus (ed. Österley), 335-50.

Imprint

Imprint: [Strasbourg: Heinrich Knoblochtzer, c.1481]. Folio.

Collation

Collation: a–o^8.6 p q⁸.

Illustrations: 191 woodcuts.

References

ISTC: ia00113000

GW: GW 348;

Hain: H 324 = HC 325;

Goff: Goff A‑113;

BMC: BMC I 88;

Proctor: Pr 387;

Others: BSB‑Ink A‑74; CIBN A‑62; Oates 163; Sack, Freiburg, 27; Schorbach–Spirgatis 37; Schramm XIX p. 14; Schreiber V 3021; Sheppard 306-8.

LCN: 14336847

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