Phaedri Augusti Liberti et Fl. Aviani Fabulae
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1792
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The title goes on Accedunt Fabulae Graecae Latinis respondentes et Homeri Batrachomyomachia cum Latina Versione Recens Addita. In usum Scholarum Seminarii Patavini. Busy title-page! Hoogstraten did his edition, beautifully illustrated by Van Vianen, in 1701. The comments here remain extensive. This is a great exemplar of an old book. It contains lots of material for the help of students in Padua's seminary -- or perhaps high school? First come the five books of Phaedrus with five appended from Gudius. These are heavily annotated by Hoogstraten. There is an AI for all of Phaedrus' fables on 189-90. Then follow forty-two fables of Avianus, with fewer and briefer comments, mostly apparently explaining unusual vocabulary. There is an AI for Avianus' fables on 230. Then follow some sixteen pages of Greek fables that parallel Latin fables earlier in the book; there is an AI of those on 247. The last two sections are Homer's [sic] Batrachomyomachia without notes and a small-print Latin translation of it with some notes, again dealing with difficult vocabulary or phrasing. It all finishes on 274. The cropping of the margins is often severe. The binding is giving way. There are plenty of wormholes. Is that a contemporary calf binding? It is as worn as the rest of the book! John B. Perry once owned this book. I would love to know how many people touched this book in the last 220 years! What a lucky find on eBay! Pack Carnes gives the exact title and publisher and comments that the Padua editions of the school text have a continuous history of revised editions and reprints from 1721 to 1779. Here is an even later one he could add to his list!
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Ex Typographia Pauli Severini
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8278 (Access ID)