Phaedri Augusti Caesaris Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri Quinque/The Five Books of the Aesopian Fables of Phaedrus, Augustus Caesar's Freedman

Abstract

A special feature of this schoolbook is a numerical key adjoining to each line, directing to take the words in construing in a proper order. These numerical schemata next to each poem are quite unusual! There are also the notes of Peter Danet, for the use of the Dauphin, translated into English. Finally, there is a rather large parsing index. After 69 pages of text, the parsing index takes up 152 pages. If this book ever had a cover, it has long since lost it. Besides an AI in Latin at the beginning, there is an index of the theme of each fable in order on xi-xv. This seems very helpful, not least to students preparing for examinations. The book is quite frail.