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[AESOPUS]

Mythologia Aesopica, in qua, Aesopi Fabulae Graecolatinae CCXCVII. quarum CXXXVI. primum prodeunt. Accedunt Babriae Fabulae etiam auctiores [...]. Haec omnia ex Bibliotheca Palatina [...] opera & studio Isaaci Nicolai Neveleti [...]
Francoforti
Nic. Hoffmanni
1610
€240 - €360

8vo, [16]-678-[2 bl.] pp. (toned, occ. dampstaining), 237 woodcuts after Virgil Solis (1514-1562). Woodcut mark on title. Printed in 2 col. with facing Greek and Latin texts. Cont. calf binding (used)

"First edition, 'Wichtigste Anthologie der humanistischen und nachhumanistischen Sammlungen und Neuentdeckungen, mit einem umfangreichen Anmerkungsapparat des Neveletus (""Notae"") in fünf Abschnitten als Anhang, in denen ausser den Fabeln des Abstemius jede Sammlung einzeln kommentiert wird.' (Bodemann). The French scholar Neveletus (1590-16xx) reprinted the collection of Accursius and added 136 fables from 5 Palatine manuscripts. This was a major source of La Fontaine. Ref. VD-17 39:138313Z. - Bodemann (Fabelbuch) 60.1. - Hoffmann I:56. - Hollstein 78:14-71. - Paisey (BL) N-183"

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