Bod-Inc: A-058
Aesopus
Aesopus moralisatus cum commento.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r [Anonymus Neveleti]: Aesopus moralisatus (metrical version of ‘Fables'). See A‑056.
a2r Commentary on Aesopus moralisatus. Incipit: ‘Graecia disciplinarum mater et artium . . .’ See A‑056.
Imprint
Imprint: Deventer: Jacobus de Breda, 4 Nov. 1490. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–d6 e8.
References
ISTC: ia00130300
GW: GW 404;
Hain: HC 307;
BMC: BMC IX 66;
Proctor: Pr 9051;
Others: Amelung, ‘Niederländische Inkunabeln', 5 no. 3; Campbell 40; HPT II 412; ILC 28; Oates 3538; Sheppard 6967.
LCN: 14336914
Copies
Copy number: A-058(1)
Bound with:
1. Johannes Taisnierius, De natura magnetis. Cologne: J. Birckmannus, 1562;
2. Johannes Scheubelius, Algebrae compendiosa . . . descriptio. Paris: Gulielmus Cavellat, 1552;
3. Thomas Kees, Sideralis Abyssus. Paris: Hedmodus Fabrius, n. d.;
4. Gulielmus Fulco, Οὐρανομαχία , hoc est astrologorum ludus. London: Gulielmus Jones, 1571 (STC 11445);
5. Musica libris quatuor demonstrata. Paris: Gulielmus Cavellat, 1551;
6. Henricus Glareanus, Liber de geographia. Freiburg im Breisgau: n. pr., 1539.
Binding: Sixteenth-century English brown calf, shortly before 25 June 1600, for the Bodleian Library, with a border of five fillets, the centre one in gold; two clasps now lost, hinged from upper to lower cover; formerly chained: staple-mark at head of the upper cover; stamped with the crest of George Carey.
Size: 189 × 137 × 10 mm.
Size of leaf: 179 × 129 mm.
Fable numbers and short titles added in black ink, with initials: the annotations are all in one late fifteenth/early sixteenth-century hand, which has not been identified.
Provenance: Given in 1600 by George Carey, 2nd Lord Hunsdon (1547-1603); see Benefactors' Register I 9; Jensen, ‘Benefactors' Register', no. 19.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: T 2.5 Art (James, Catalogus (1605), 397).
SHELFMARK: A 9.9(7) Linc.
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