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tia00130000

Text-inc Id:
tia00130000
Bod-inc Id:
A-057
Headings:
Aesopus Aesopus moralisatus cum commento.
Analysis of content:
  1. a1r [Title-page.]
  2. a2r [Anonymus Neveleti]: Aesopus moralisatus (metrical version of ‘Fables'). Hervieux II 316-50 (under the name of Gualterus Anglicus). They appear in the following order (Hervieux numbers): prologue, i–iv, vi, v, vii–xix, xxi, xx, xxi(a), xxii–xxix, xxxi, xxx, xxxii–lx. For the authorship see A‑056.
  3. a2r Commentary on Aesopus moralisatus. Incipit: ‘Graecia disciplinarum mater et artium . . .’ Not the commentary in the ‘Auctores octo.’ Campbell 38 ascribes commentary to Laurentius Valla.
Imprint:
Deventer: Richard Pafraet, 24 Dec. [between 1488 and 1492]. 4°. GW dates [not before 1488], BMC [1488-92], Campbell [c.1495].
Collation:
a–e6 f8.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia00130000 GW 403; C 103; BMC IX 61; Pr 9026; Campbell 46; HPT II 408; ILC 27; Sheppard 6955. LCN: 14336819
Copies:
  1. A-057(1) Copy Binding: Modern purple cloth. Size: 201 × 141 × 7 mm. Size of leaf: 192 × 128 mm. Some underlining added, one pointing hand and some initials in the margins, all in black ink. Two- and three-line initials and paragraph marks supplied in red. Capital strokes in red. Provenance: Joseph Niesert (1766-1841). Not purchased at the 1843 sale of Niesert's books; acquired between 1847 and c.1892; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 1.24.