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Title
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Fabulae Variorum Auctorum
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Language note: Multilingual: Greek/Latin
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Isaac Nicolaus Neveletus
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Creator
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Nevelet, Isaac Nicolaus
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Contributor
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Solis, Virgil
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Date
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2025-05-20T17:10:07Z
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2023-08
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1660
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Date Available
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2025-05-20T17:10:07Z
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Date Issued
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1660
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Abstract
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It is thrilling to bring this book into the collection! It is the second, augmented, edition of the 1610 original which had the title "Mythologia Aesopica." "Variorum" is appropriate. Eight different collections are presented here in their entirety as they were known then. The edition is augmented in that it includes in its first section, "Fabulae Aesopi," some 148 Greek fables not in the 1610 edition. The division of the work is significant. Sections marked by "Aesopi," "Aphtonii," "Gabrii," and "Babrii" are all delivered in Greek with Latin translations, the first two in parallel columns and the latter two in sequential quatrains. There follow four Latin collections. Of these, the title-page lists first the "Anonymus Neveleti," perhaps because, like the four Greek collections, it comes from the Bibliotheca Palatina. The book offers the four Latin collections in this order: Phaedrus, Avienus, Anonymus, and Abstemius. The title-page offers the count of each. The total number of fables comes to 781. The woodcuts imitate those of Virgil Solis. Many of them recur as their fables appear in multiple collections. Two of the most frequently repeated illustrations are DLS (127; 329; 361; and 457) and FC (256; 345; 364; 397; and 497). The editor apparently does not mind that the same illustration of ass and boar appears on 585 and 588. [16] 678 pages; 237 woodcuts; 3½" x 6".
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Identifier
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60.2
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13459 (Access ID)
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Language
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gre
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Publisher
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Christoph Gerlach and Simon Beckenstein
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Frankfurt
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Subject
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Aesop