Bod-Inc: A-056
Aesopus
Aesopus moralisatus cum commento.
Analysis of Content
A1r [Title-page and woodcut.]
A1v [Wooodcut.]
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.
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
Imprint: [Antwerp]: Gerard Leeu, 14 May 1488. 4°.
Collation
Collation: A–E6 [F4].
Illustrations: Woodcut of Aesop on A1r, repeated on A1v.
References
ISTC: ia00129500
GW: GW 402;
Hain: HC 303;
BMC: BMC IX 191;
Proctor: Pr 9375;
Others: Campbell 38; CIBN A‑76; Douce Legacy 94 no. 144; Duff 4; HPT II 420; ILC 26; Oates 3908; Sheppard 7221.
LCN: 14336917
Copies
Copy number: A-056(1)
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.
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