Habentur hoc uolumine haec, uidelicet. Vita, & Fabellae Aesopi cum interpretatione latina, ita tamen ut separari a graeco possit pro uniuscuiusq[ue] arbitrio. quibus traducendis multum certe elaborauimus. nam quae ante tralata habebantur, infida admodu[m] erant, quod facillimum erit conferenti cognoscere. Gabriae fabellae tres & quadraginta ex trimetris iambis, praeter ultimam ex Scazonte, cum latina interpretatio[n]e. Quas idcirco bis curauimus informa[n]das, quia priores, ubi latinum a graeco seiungi potest, admodum quam incorrecte excusae fuerant exempli culpa. quare nacti emendatum exemplum, operae pretium uisum est iterum excudendas curare, ut ex secundis prima queant corrigi. Phurnutus seu, ut alii, Curnutus de natura deorum. Palaephatus de non credendis historiis. Heraclides Ponticus de allegoriis apud Homerum. Ori Apollinis Niliaci hieroglyphica. Collectio prouerbiorum Tarrhaei, & Didymi, item eorum, quae apud Sudam [sic], aliosq[ue] habentur per ordinem literarum. Ex Aphthonii exercitamentis de fabula. Tum de formicis, & cicadis graece, & latine. De fabula ex imaginibus Philostrati graece, & latine. Ex Hermogenis exercitamentis de fabula Prisciano interprete. Apologus Aesopi de Cassita apud Gellium.
Aesop (c.620 - 564 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1505
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3087017
Summary
Bibliographic description
[17], [51] leaves, 65-142 p., 172 columns, [2] p. ; fol. Running number: 7074. Imperfect: consists of gatherings [kappa]-[omicron] only. Final leaf [omicron]4 pasted onto blank leaf on the verso, with cut-out window showing the Aldine device, the colophon from the recto has been cut out and pasted beneath the printer's device on the verso. Provenance: manuscript inscription on fly-leaf facing title page (the first word transliterated from the Greek): "Synagōgē. Su/ynagoga" [i.e. title note and catalogue entry works without an obvious author, written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Sixteenth-century manuscript inscriptions at end of text on leaf [omicron]3 verso: [1] "Iste liber est Johannes de Ruelle" (crossed out) [possibly one Jean Ruelle]; [2] "... Joannis De Vulcob. em Jan. 1579" [possibly Jean de Vulcob (ca. 1535-1607), French diplomat and priest]. With sixteenth-century manuscript marginal annotations, marginal markings and underlining of text on leaves [kappa]1-[lambda]3, and infrequently thereafter. Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on six supports; double gilt fillet border; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine (title label missing); red sprinkled bookblock edges; comb and swirl pattern marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Aesop (c.620 - 564 BCE), author Aphthonius (4th century), author Babrius (fl. c.2nd century) , author Heraclitus of Pontus (1st century), author Hermogenes (fl.2nd Century), author Horapollo (5th century), author Palaephatus (4th century BC), author Philostratus, the Athenian (2nd - 3rd century BC), author Lucius Annaeus Cornutus (1st century), author Maximus Planudes (c.1260 - c.1310), author Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), editor Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), printer