Les Subtiles Fables D'Esope, Lyon Mathieu Husz, 1486

Title

en_US Les Subtiles Fables D'Esope, Lyon Mathieu Husz, 1486

en_US Livres a Gravures Imprimés a Lyon au XVe Siècle, ed. Claude Dalbanne

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Julien Macho, Claude Dalbanne

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Bastin, J. (Notice)

Date

2016-01-25T19:01:47Z

en_US 1997-11

en_US 1926

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:01:47Z

Date Issued

en_US 1926

Abstract

en_US Here is an unusual piece of work. It is unstitched as issued and mostly unopened. Its paper covers are torn at the spine. After the colored frontispiece (from a 13th-century Lyon Isopet manuscript), there are 208 black-and-white woodcut illustrations, very much in the tradition of Steinhöwel. The introduction identifies the focus of this work as the reception of the work of Julien Macho, who first translated Steinhöwel's work into French in 1480 in Lyon. After the introduction there is a very useful list of all the illustrations of fables in the work, starting with those in the life of Aesop. For the extravagantes and other later sections of Macho's work, this list also gives the story for less well known fables. After 48, there are four inserted plates, each containing one or more manuscript illustrations for Aesop and/or the fables. There follow--as I understand--the 1486 Husz edition's 192 woodcuts, two to a page, without the texts of the fables. Many have a number and/or a title over the woodcut. There is a tear on 95-96. These are all in the full uncut sheets, four pages (and thus eight woodcuts, since there is one on each side of the page) to a sheet. Dalbanne and E. Droz offer a study of the woodcuts, including sixteen further illustrations for comparison. There follows a very handy contrast of various woodcuts from Lyon with those in Steinhöwel's edition. At the very back is a list of fables and illustrations, comparing the Husz 1486 edition with Phillippe and Reinhard's 1480 and Husz et Schabeler's 1484 editions. Do I read this work correctly to indicate that the original Macho edition had no illustrations for the life of Aesop?

Identifier

en_US 3904 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79244

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Association Guillaume le Roy, Lyon/Charles Eggimann, Paris

en_US Lyon, France

Subject

en_US Z241.A25 1926

en_US Aesop and others

Type

en_US Book, Whole