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Title
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Phaedri Aug. Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri Quinque
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Language note: Latin (with some Greek in the appendix)
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Original language: grc
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Franciscus-Josephus Desbillons
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Creator
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Avianus
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Date
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2016-01-25T20:35:45Z
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2012-11
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1713
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T20:35:45Z
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Date Issued
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1713
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Abstract
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Here is a Bodemann #100.1, a Phaedrus edition with a number of printer's designs. Unfortunately, this copy lacks the frontispiece featured in Bodemann 100.1. The printer's designs that mark the beginning and ending of each book and chapter seem unrelated to the fables themselves. Beginnings are further marked with elaborate initials. The five books of Phaedrus' fables conclude on 57 and are followed by Fabulae Quaedam a Marquardo Gudio e veteri Manuscripto desumptae, containing five Latin fables, and a list of variant readings. The very detailed index to Phaedrus' fables starts after 62 and runs over seventy pages. The following appendix begins with a number of Greek fables: Fabulae Graecae Latinis Phaedri Fabulis respondentes; Ex Aesopo. Then follow nine quatrains from Gabrius, nine Latin prose fables, and finally forty-two Latin verse fables titled Avieni Aesopicarum Fabularum Liber. A curious English language element headed Anner and signed Dartmouth follows the title-page; it seems to announce Michael Mattaire as the publisher. I do not understand how he fits with Tonson and Watts. I suspect that they put up the money and he did the publishing. Thereupon follow the dedication, lives of Phaedrus and Avienus, a letter from Avianus to Theodosius, and an AI of the fables of Phaedrus. The book once belonged to Thomas Robyns.
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Identifier
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Bodemann identifier 100.1
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8902 (Access ID)
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Language
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lat
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Publisher
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Ex officinâ Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts.,
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Londini
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Subject
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PA6563.A2 1713
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Phaedrus, Avianus, Aesop, Gude, Babrius
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole