Esopus moralizat[us] cum bono co[m]mento.

Accession number: 
PML 22552
Author: 
Aesop.
Published: 
[Cologne] : [Heinrich Quentell], Impressus anno salutis .M.cccc.lxxxix. decimo kalendas Aprilis [23 March 1489].
Description: 
[42] leaves ; 20 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1925.
Notes: 

With interlinear gloss, in Latin.
Metrical version of Fabulae Lib. I-IV by Anonymous Neveleti (Gualtherus Anglicus?).
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Quentell's types 3:180G, 4:91G, and 6:63G.
Date from colophon, leaf g4r: Finit Esopus fabulato: preclarissim[us] cu[m] fuis moralizationib[us] ad nostri instructione[m] pulcherrime appositis. Impressus anno salutis .M.cccc.lxxxix. decimo kalendas Aprilis.
Signatures: a⁸ b-f⁶ g⁴: 42 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.4 x 13 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (half-title page).

Binding: 
20th-century quarter brown goatskin, with paper sides, over paper boards (20 x 14 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; sprinkled edges.
Variant Title: 

Aesopus moralisatus (Cum commento: Graecia disciplinarum...)

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized, except for primary initial in blue with red penwork decoration (leaf a2r). Annotations: Contemporary manuscript title: Espous moralisat[us] cu[m] come[n]to" (leaf a2r). 1-2 marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Unidentified monastic inscription: "Conventus F[??] ord. Liob(?)," abraded (leaf a2r); Emperor Franz I (1768-1835), stamp: crowned "F.I." (leaf a2r), see M. A. Becker, "Die Sammlungen der vereinten Familien- und Privat-Bibliothek Sr. M. des Kaisers, v. 1 (Wien: Druck von Carl Finsterbeck, 1873), col. XLIV (no. 608, shelfmark label on front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); Vienna, Habsburg Fidei-Kommiss-Bibliothek, stamp: crowned “FID. C” (leaf a2r), incorporated into: Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, printed shelfmark: 306-170 (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), duplicate; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from L.C. Harper, 1925.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Quarter bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books