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Title
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en_US
Mythologia Ethica
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Language note: Latin
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Arnoldus Freitag
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Creator
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Freitag, Arnold
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Contributor
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Gheeraerts, Marcus
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:54:03Z
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2008-05
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1975
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:54:03Z
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Date Issued
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1579
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Abstract
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This may be the first true emblem book in this collection, and it is high time. This is a fine example. Bodemann (51.1) may be slightly incorrect when it gives the sequence for each of these 125 fables. On the left page is a title, Latin prose text, and moral. On the right hand page (not the left) is a short motto, a Gheeraerts illustration, and an apt scriptural quotation. The Gheeraerts illustrations are better presented in A Moral Fable-Talk (1987), but here they are put together with the emblematic materials that constituted a strong phase of the fable tradition. The title-page here offers this description: Hoc est moralis philosophiae per fabulas brutis attributas, traditae, amoenissimum viridarium. In quo humanae vitae labyrintho demonstrato virtutus semita pulcherrimis praeceptis, veluti Thesei filo docet. That viridarium is a pleasure-garden. Unfortunately, Bodemann does not offer a specific source for these texts. Are they Freitag's own? The bottom of each page has the first syllable of the following page, even moving from a left to a right page. Some of the impressions are understandably light. Even in this slightly shadowy representation, Gheeraerts' work is splendid!
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Identifier
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Bodemann identifier 51.1
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6338 (Access ID)
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Language
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lat
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Publisher
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Philippe Galle, Christophorus Plantinus/George Ladias Limited
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Antwerp/Athens
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Subject
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PA8520.F84 M98 1975
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Aesop
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Type
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Book, Whole