Aesopi Phrygis et Aliorum Fabulae
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Aesop
Planudes, Maximus
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1781
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This tight little book is squarely in the tradition of the other books of the same title that I have listed under 1767? and 1777. This volume is missing 99-118. By comparison with the latter, the title-page here has exactly the same words with the exception of Editio novissima caeteris auctior & emendatior for pluribusque auctior & diligentius quam antehac emendatae. It offers the same list of authors contained in the volume. As there, we next have Planudes' life of Aesop in Latin, which finishes on 65. The fables start on 74. The illustrations seem to me to range in quality, sometimes cruder and sometimes more refined; they are mirror opposites. Both sets are numbered consecutively after the title, but this number applies only within the particular section of fables (e.g., fables from Laurenzio Valla). Not all of the fables illustrated there (e.g., De Carbonario & Fullone, 17, are illustrated here. Let me list the same items whose illustrations I chose there with their new page numbers: Ass and Horse (87), The Shepherd Up a Tree Whose Cloak Is Eaten Beneath Him (134), WC (not illustrated here), and The Fox and the Hunters (225). De Leone et Rana is on 186. Remicius' section here, including one hundred fables, runs from 216 through 279. There it was 188 through 242. The next element in each is Apologi ex Chiliadibus (243-249 there, 280-87 here) with unnumbered fables. Here, as there, the last elements are one or two fables each from Peter Crinitus, Joannes Antonius Campanus, Pliny, and Gellius. After the 294 pages of fables, there are six pages of an AI. This book is heavily stained. I regret the loss of that one signature, but it is still a little treasure!
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Vincentius Laurentii
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3840 (Access ID)