Mythologia Aesopica, in qua, Aesopi Fabulae Graecolatinae CCXCVII. quarum CXXXVI. primum prodeunt. Accedunt Babriae Fabulae etiam auctiores; Haec omnia ex Bibliotheca Palatina
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Nevelet, Isaac Nicolaus
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1610
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I rejoiced a year and a half ago to bring a second edition Nevelet into the collection (Bodemann #60.2). Now here is a first edition! It is indeed a variorum edition, celebrated by the seller to be as important as the 1479 Accursio and 1546 Estienne editions. This copy, 3½" x 6", has both its front and back covers separated. Pages 486-530 are interposed between 512 and 513. The Bodemann listings (#60.1 and #60.2) seem not entirely correct. #60.2 notes the addition of 148 fables not previously published; in fact, they are here in #60.1 and not accounted for. In addition, Bodemann here seems to list the 40 Aphthonius prose fables twice. Since the book does not have a T of C and is so wide-ranging, let me offer a listing of sections with numbers of fables and page ranges. After introductory material, the Vita Aesopi is on 4-82. Aesop (Aldus Manutius collection, #1-149) is on 83-211. Previously unedited Aesop texts (#150-297) are on 212-321 [this section Bodemann seems to overlook here but to introduce as new in 1660]. Aphthonius #1-40 follow on 322-53. Then come Gabrius #1-43 and Babrius #1-11 on 354-87; Phaedrus (#1-90 on 388-42); Avienus (#1-42 on 453-485); Anonymi (#1-60 on 486-530); and Laurentius Abstemius (#1-99 on 531-618). There follow then Nevelet's extensive notes on 621-678. "Aesopi," "Aphtonii," "Gabrii," and "Babrii" are all delivered in Greek with Latin translations, the first two in parallel columns and the latter two in sequential quatrains. The woodcuts imitate those of Virgil Solis. Many of them recur as their fables appear in multiple collections. Beautifully rendered are, for example, 2W (214); "Ass and Lapdog" (262); and DLS (361).
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Jonas Rosa & Nicolaus Hoffmann
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