Fabulae antiquae ex Phaedro fere servatis ejus verbis desumptae, & soluta oratione expositae. Inter quas reperiuntur nonnullae ejusdem auctoris & aliorum antea ignotae. Accedunt Romuli Fabulae Aesopiae omnes ex MSStis depromptae, & adjectis notis editae ab Joh. Frederico Nilant.
Gaius Julius Phaedrus (1st century)
Category
Books
Date
1709
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3198975
Summary
Bibliographic description
[48], 144 p. ; 12mo. Running number: 5431. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript code (old shelfmark or inventory number?) on front fly-leaf: "C-1". Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled sheepskin; gold-tooled spine; gilt title on reddish-brown leather label on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Gaius Julius Phaedrus (1st century), author Aesop (c.620 - 564 BCE) Romulus , author Johann Friedrich Niland (1680-1757), editor