Fabule [et] vita Esopi.

Accession number: 
PML 650
Author: 
Aesop.
Published: 
Impresse Antwerpie : per me Gerardum Leeu, Millesimo quadringentesimo octuagesimosexto Mense septembri. die vero vicesima sexta [26 September 1486].
Description: 
[104] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 26.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r: Fabule [et] vita esopi: cum fabulis Auiani: Alfonsij: Pogij florentini: [et] aliorum: cum optimo co[m]mento: bene diligenterq[ue] emendate.
Imprint from colophon, leaf I6r: Expliciunt fabule [et] vita Esopi: cum fabulis Auiani. Alfonsij. Pogij florentini: et alio[rum] cum optimo co[m]mento: bene diligenterq[ue] correcte [et] emendate: Impresse Antwerpie per me Gerardum leeu Anno dom[in]i Millesimo quadringentesimo octuagesimosexto Mense septembri. die vero vicesima sexta.
Printed in Leeu's types 4:100G and 5:82G.
Signatures: a-g⁶ h⁸ I⁶: 104 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcuts (193), copied from those used in the Augsburg: Gü̈nther Zainer, about 1477-1478 edition (ISTC ia00119000).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.5 x 17.5 cm.
PML copy with leaf a1 remargined, perhaps added from another copy.

Binding: 
19th-century English blind-stamped laced vellum with fore edge (Yapp) extensions over paper boards (26.5 x 18 cm), sewn on 5 supports by J. Leighton. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; dark blue edges.
Variant Title: 

Title in ISTC: Vita, after Rinucius, et Fabulae, Lib. I-IV, prose version of Romulus [Latin]. Add: Fabulae, Lib I-IV (the metrical version of Anonymous Neveleti, i.e. Aesopus Moralisatus). Fabulae extravagantes. Fabulae novae (Tr: Rinucius). Fabulae Avian

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations in text (leaves E3r/E4v and G2r). Drawing of rooster in margin (leaf d1r).

Provenance: 
Adrianus Wollebos, contemporary inscription (leaf E3r); Pieter Mamaerts of Mechelen, signature: Petrus Mamaerts Mecxliniensis, 17th century(?), with another inscription below, abraded (leaf a2r); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes on woodcuts (front endleaf 2 recto), and bibliographic notes by Sydney Cockerell, laid-in (rear pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: sl/-/- (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Vellum bindings (Binding)
Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
Century: 
15th century
Department: 
Printed Books