Bod-Inc: A-057
Aesopus
Aesopus moralisatus cum commento.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r [Anonymus Neveleti]: Aesopus moralisatus (metrical version of ‘Fables'). Hervieux II 316-50 (under the name of Gualterus Anglicus). They appear in the following order (Hervieux numbers): prologue, i–iv, vi, v, vii–xix, xxi, xx, xxi(a), xxii–xxix, xxxi, xxx, xxxii–lx. For the authorship see A‑056.
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: Deventer: Richard Pafraet, 24 Dec. [between 1488 and 1492]. 4°.
Remarks: GW dates [not before 1488], BMC [1488-92], Campbell [c.1495].
Collation
Collation: a–e6 f8.
References
ISTC: ia00130000
GW: GW 403;
Hain: C 103;
BMC: BMC IX 61;
Proctor: Pr 9026;
Others: Campbell 46; HPT II 408; ILC 27; Sheppard 6955.
LCN: 14336819
Copies
Copy number: A-057(1)
Binding: Modern purple cloth.
Size: 201 × 141 × 7 mm.
Size of leaf: 192 × 128 mm.
Some underlining added, one pointing hand and some initials in the margins, all in black ink.
Two- and three-line initials and paragraph marks supplied in red. Capital strokes in red.
Provenance: Joseph Niesert (1766-1841). Not purchased at the 1843 sale of Niesert's books; acquired between 1847 and c.1892; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 1.24.
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