Phaedri Aug. Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri Quinque

Title

en_US Phaedri Aug. Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri Quinque

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Latin (with some Greek in the appendix)

en_US Original language: grc

en_US Franciscus-Josephus Desbillons

Creator

en_US Avianus

Date

2016-01-25T20:35:45Z

en_US 2012-11

en_US 1713

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:35:45Z

Date Issued

en_US 1713

Abstract

en_US 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.

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier 100.1

en_US 8902 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/84112

Language

en_US lat

Publisher

en_US Ex officinâ Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts.,

en_US Londini

Subject

en_US PA6563.A2 1713

en_US Phaedrus, Avianus, Aesop, Gude, Babrius

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole