tia01414000

Text-inc Id:

tia01414000

Headings:

Avianus Fabulae [Apologus]

Subjects:

grammar, literature-moral

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Titlepage, with woodcut: "Accipies tanti doctori dogmata sancti"] Apologus Aviani civis Romani adolescentulis ad mores et latinum sermonem capescendos utilissimus.
2. a2r [Prologus] Apologus Aviani Incipit: ‘[N]ichil esse tam iucundum inquit Pindarus quam fabulam scribere. Sed fabularum...’ ...iocundiores fiant et vita meliores. Vale.
3. a2r Avianus: [Fabulae] De rustica et lupo Incipit: ‘[R]ustica deflenti puero iuraverat olim..."’ Order of the fables: 'De rustica et lupo' (a2r); 'De testudine et avibus' (a2v); 'De cancro et filio eius' (a3v); 'De borea et sole' (a4r); 'De asino et pelle leonis' (a4v); 'De rana et animalibus infirmis' (a5v); 'De cane et nola impensa' (a6r); 'De camelo et iove' (b1r); 'De duobus sociis in itinere' (b1v); 'De calvo milite' (b2v); 'De duobus ollis' (b3r); 'De rustico qui repperit thesaurum' (b3v); 'De leone tauro et hirco' (b4r); 'De iove et simia' (b4v); 'De pavone et grue' (b5v); 'De quercu et arundine' (b6r); 'De venatore et tigri' (b6v); 'De quatuor tauris et leone' (c1v); 'De abiete et dumis' (c2r); 'De piscatore et exigue pisce' (c3r); 'De alite et pullis eius in agro rustici procreatis' (c3v); 'De cupido et invido' (c4v); 'De mercatore et imagine marmorea' (c5r); 'De venatore et nobili leone' (c6r); 'De puero et fure' (c6v); 'De leone et capra' (d1r); 'De cornice et urna' (d1v); 'De rustico et crudeli bove' (d2r); 'De viatore et satiro' (d3r); 'De rustico et sue vastante segetes' (d4r); 'De parvo mure et magno bove' (d4v); 'De rustico et eius curro infixo luto' (d5v); 'De ansere et aureis ovis' (d6r); 'De formica et cicada' (d6v); 'De simia et bobus natis inequaliter dilectis' (e1r); 'De vitulo saltante et bove arante' (e2r); 'De pingui cane et macro leone' (e2v); 'De parvo pisce et fora pisce magno' (e3v); 'De milite bello intrante' (e4r); 'De pardo et vulpe' (e4v); 'De olla lutea et imbre' (e5r); 'De hedo et lupo' (e6r).
4. a2v [anonymous commentary] Incipit: ‘Dic auctor in primo apologo sive in prima fabula...’ e6v Explicit: ‘... pristinas delicias peccatorum.’ Each prose commentary sums-up the content of the fable and ends with two sections called 'Utilitas' and 'Allegoria' respectively; the former exemplifying possible applications of the moral content of the fable in everyday life; the latter where the allegorical characters and meanings are explicitly unveiled under the literal ones. The edition also contains a Latin interlinear paraphrasis of some words.
5. e6v Colophon: ‘Apologus Aviani civis Romani adolescentibus ad mores et latinum sermonem capessendos utilissimus. Finis feliciter Anno Mccccxciiii quarto Idibus Septembris.’

Imprint:

[Cologne Heinrich Quentell] 4° Woodcut 10 Sept. 1494

Collation:

a-e6

References:

Source: Cambridge UL; implemented by Matilde Malaspina based on the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München copy. ISTC: ia01414000

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=245  10$aApologus Auiani ciuis Romani adolescentulis ad mores et latinum sermonem capescendos vtilissimus.
=246  3$aApologus Auiani ciuis Romani adolescentulis ad mores et latinum sermonem capescendos utilissimus
=260  $a[Cologne :$bHeinrich Quentell],$c10 September 1494.
=300  $a[30] leaves :$bill. (woodcut) ;$c206 mm. (4to)
=500  $aDate of printing from colophon on leaf e6 verso, which reads in full:  Apologus Auiani ciuis Romani adolescentibus ad mores & latinum sermonem capessendos vtilissimus. Finit feliciter . Anno .M.ccccxciiij. quarto Jd[es] Septe[m]bris.
=500  $aIn verse, with prose commentary and interlinear glosses.
=500  $aWoodcut illustration of a master with two pupils, with scroll inscribed "Accipies / tanti doctoris / dog=/mata sancti", on leaf a1 recto:  see woodcut A in BL 15th cent., I, 270.
=500  $aPrinted running titles.
=500  $aSpaces left blank for initials.
=500  $aSignatures:  a-e⁶.  First leaf a1  unsigned; fourth leaf in gatherings a-c and e signed.
=505  0$aTitle page, with woodcut, a1r;  Avianus. Apologus, cum commento, a2r-e6v;  colophon, e6v.
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=561  $aProvenance:  Inscribed "Lambertus Wallraven [?]" on leaf a1 recto, Germany [?], late 16th or 17th century.  Johann Georg Franz Burkhard Kloss of Frankfurt am Main, his bibliographical notes on upper pastedown.  His sale, Sotheby's, 7-29 May 1835, lot 375.  Priced "ld/n" in ink in upper right corner of lower pastedown, 18th [?] century, and "5/-" in pencil, 19th century, on upper pastedown.  Bought of James G. Commin, Exeter, for the library on 24 May 1893 by Samuel Sandars, for £ 1.0.0.$5UkCU
=563  $aBinding:  Half brown marbles calf and marbled paper over pasteboards, with title and date of printing gilt on red leather label pasted onto upper cover, Kloss's binding, first half of the 19th century.$5UkCU
=599  $aAnnotations:  Manuscript notes in cursive hands on leaves a1 recto, a1 verso and a2 recto, including a table of contents on leaf a1 verso, relating to the volume in which the present book was formerly bound as item no. 1, followed by Aesopus, Catho cum commento etc., Germany, 16th century.$5UkCU
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