Phaedri Augusti Liberti Fabularum Aesop. Libri Quinque

Title

en_US Phaedri Augusti Liberti Fabularum Aesop. Libri Quinque

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Latin

en_US First edition

en_US Cum notis et emendation. Franc. Iosephi Desbillons ex ejus commentario pleniore desumptis

Creator

en_US Aesop

Date

2016-01-25T16:30:32Z

en_US 2000-04

en_US 1786

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:30:32Z

Date Issued

en_US 1786

Abstract

en_US This little book (7 x 4.5) of lxxii + 120 pages plus a four-page T of C at the back is called here a shortened version of a larger work by Desbillons. Presumably, notes and commentary here have been reduced. Of course, I have long felt a particular tie to Desbillons and his work, since he was a Jesuit working on fables. For me the most touching two parts of this book are therefore the opening Praefatio, in which he speaks of having received permission in 1760 to publish his work on Phaedrus from the erudite men of the Society of Jesus. Parisian printers had then undertaken to publish the book when, Desbillons writes, an unawaited calamity took him from his studies and forced him to seek lodging among people outside. He is speaking of course of the suppression of the Society of Jesus. For that reason, the very last page of the book is fascinating. It is the 1760 permission from the provincial superior of the French Jesuits for this book to be published. The book was published in 1786, after the Jesuits had been suppressed. The S.J. thus does not appear here after Desbillons' name. In a footnote to the section of the preface to which I have referred he says that he has taken care to have this 1760 permission included in the book as a certain memorial to my one-time condition, namely his condition as a Jesuit. There are no illustrations beyond the medallion on the title-page. The book begins with three disputations on the life of Phaedrus, his fables, and their editions. Some fable texts have been annotated by a diligent writer, but I do not find his symbols intrusive. There has also been a cartoonist at work on the endpapers. The book has spent time as the property of the Bibliothek Rappenau. There are addenda to the notes at the end of the preliminary section, just before the fables begin on 1. Considerable foxing and some water-staining.

Identifier

en_US 3293 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78673

Language

en_US lat

Publisher

en_US In Bibliopolo novo aul. Et acad., nunc apud Tobiam Loeffler

en_US Mannheim

Subject

en_US PA6563.A2 1786

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole