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Book/Printed Material Fabule & vita Esopi, cum fabulis Auiani, Alfonsij, Pogij Florentini, & aliorum, cum optimo co[m]mento, bene diligenterq[ue] correcte & emendate Fabule et vita Esopi

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Title

  • Fabule & vita Esopi, cum fabulis Auiani, Alfonsij, Pogij Florentini, & aliorum, cum optimo co[m]mento, bene diligenterq[ue] correcte & emendate

Other Title

  • Fabule et vita Esopi

Names

  • Aesop
  • Steinhöwel, Heinrich, 1412-1482?, compiler
  • Romulus, attributed name
  • Rinuccio, d'Arezzo, approximately 1395-approximately 1457, translator
  • Anonymus Neveleti
  • Avianus
  • Petrus Alfonsi, 1062-1110?
  • Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459
  • Leeu, Gerard, approximately 1445-1493, printer
  • Terry, Roderick, 1849-1933, former owner
  • Wilmerding, Lucius, 1880-1949, former owner
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Antwerp, Gerardus Leeu, 26 Sept. 1486.

Headings

  • -  Fables, Greek--Translations into Latin
  • -  Aesop
  • -  Belgium--Antwerp

Genre

  • Incunabula--Belgium--Antwerp--1486

Notes

  • -  Compiled by Heinrich Steinhöwel and originally published ca. 1477 (Ulm, Zainer). Cf. Steinhöwels Äsop, edited by H. Österley, 1873 (Bibliothek des Litterarischen Vereins in Stuttgart, 117).
  • -  Contains the Vita, translated by Rinuccio; Fabulae, books 1-4 in the prose version of Romulus, and the metrical version of books 1-3 of Anonymus Neveleti; Fabulae extravagantes; Fabulae novae, translated by Rinuccio; Fabulae, by Avianus; Fabulae collectae, by Petrus Alfonsi, Poggio, and others.
  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 539
  • -  Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A-114
  • -  Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 329
  • -  Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, IX, p. 187 (IB.49750)
  • -  Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 349
  • -  LC copy: initials and paragraph marks supplied in red or blue, initial strokes in red.
  • -  LC copy: Provenance: Bookplates of Roderick Terry and Lucius Wilmerding.

Medium

  • [104] leaves. woodcuts: illus. 26.8 cm. (fol.)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Incun. 1486 .A3

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 51006173

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Aesop, Attributed Name Romulus, Anonymus Neveleti, Avianus, ? Petrus Alfonsi, Poggio Bracciolini, Gerard Leeu, Roderick Terry, Lucius Wilmerding, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Fabule & vita Esopi, cum fabulis Auiani, Alfonsij, Pogij Florentini, & aliorum, cum optimo commento, bene diligenterque correcte & emendate. translateds by Rinuccio, D'Arezzo, Approximately Approximately 1457, composeds by Steinhöwel, Heinrich, ?Iler Antwerp, Gerardus Leeu, 26 Sept, 1486. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/51006173/.

APA citation style:

Aesop, Romulus, A. N., Anonymus Neveleti, Avianus, Petrus Alfonsi, ?., Bracciolini, P. [...] Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. (1486) Fabule & vita Esopi, cum fabulis Auiani, Alfonsij, Pogij Florentini, & aliorum, cum optimo commento, bene diligenterque correcte & emendate. Rinuccio, D., trans, Steinhöwel, H., comp Antwerp, Gerardus Leeu, 26 Sept. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/51006173/.

MLA citation style:

Aesop, et al. Fabule & vita Esopi, cum fabulis Auiani, Alfonsij, Pogij Florentini, & aliorum, cum optimo commento, bene diligenterque correcte & emendate. trans by Rinuccio, D'Arezzo, Approximately Approximately 1457, comp by Steinhöwel, Heinrich, ?Iler Antwerp, Gerardus Leeu, 26 Sept, 1486. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/51006173/>.