Accession number
PML 50
Creator
Aesop.
Object title
[Vita et fabulae].
Published
[Strasbourg] : [Heinrich Knoblochtzer], [about 1481]
Description
[114] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Printed in Koblochtzer's types 3:96G and 4:120G.
Translated from the Greek by Rinuccio d'Arezzo.
Incipit of Vita (leaf a2r): "Vita Esopi fabulartoris clarissimi e greco latina per Rimicium facta ad reverendissimum patrem dominu[m] Anthoniu[m] tituli sancti Chrysogoni presbiterum Cardinalem."
Collation: a, c, e, g, i, l, n⁸/b, d, f, h, k, m, o⁶ p-q⁸: 114 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
191 woodcuts.
List of fables at the end of the each section.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 19.7 cm
Translated from the Greek by Rinuccio d'Arezzo.
Incipit of Vita (leaf a2r): "Vita Esopi fabulartoris clarissimi e greco latina per Rimicium facta ad reverendissimum patrem dominu[m] Anthoniu[m] tituli sancti Chrysogoni presbiterum Cardinalem."
Collation: a, c, e, g, i, l, n⁸/b, d, f, h, k, m, o⁶ p-q⁸: 114 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
191 woodcuts.
List of fables at the end of the each section.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 19.7 cm
Binding
19th-century blind- and gilt-tooled black goatskin in a pastiche of an early style with gilt-tooled turn-ins over wooden boards (28.7 x 20.2 cm) by Lortic, with his ticket. Marbled paper pastedowns and flyleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: No rubrication required; red frame ruling added to each leaf. A few woodcuts with minor wash coloring.
Provenance
Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1790-1876), booklabel (first fly leaf verso); his sale, Paris, part II, 1879, lot 306; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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