Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae, elegantissimis iconibus veras animalium species ad viuum adumbrantibus. Gabriae Graeci fabellae XLIII. Batrachomyomachia Homeri, hoc est, ranarum & murium pugna. Galeōmyomachia, hoc est felium & murium pugna, Fabula Graeca. Haec omnia cum Latina interpretatione. Accesserunt Auieni antiqui auctoris fabulae. Editio postrema, caeteris castigatior.
Aesop (c.620 - 564 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1619
Materials
Place of origin
Lyon
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3031665
Summary
Bibliographic description
410, [6] p. : ill. (woodcut) ; 16mo. Running number: 5524. Provenance: manuscript former shelfmark on front pastedown: "O.3.6". Manuscript book or inventory number on front fly-leaf: "(357)". Binding: seventeenth-century full blind-tooled vellum over boards; double fillet panel; yapp fore-edges; manuscript title and number on spine: "Fabulae Aesopi Graeco Latine .15.". Blue stained edges.
Makers and roles
Aesop (c.620 - 564 BCE), author Avianus , author Babrius (fl. c.2nd century) , author Maximus Planudes (c.1260 - c.1310), author Cyrus Theodore Prodromus, author Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), editor