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Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae, elegantissimis eiconibus veras animaliu[m] species ad viuu[m] adumbrantes. Gabriae Graeci fabellae XXXXIIII [i.e. 43]. Batrachomyomachia Homeri, hoc est, Ranarum & murium pugna. Galeōmyomachia, hoc est, Felium & murium pugna ... haec omnia cum Latina interpretatione. Nunc primùm accesserunt Auieni antiqui autoris fabulae nusquam antehac editae.

Accession number
PML 5088
Published
Lugduni : Apud Ioannes Tornaesium ... , M.D.LXX. [1570]
Notes
Greek portion of title romanized.
Edited by Adam Knopff. Cf. "Typographus Lectori", p. [382] of the De Tournes' 1551 ed.
Greek and Latin in parallel columns, p. 1-287. Greek and Latin on opposite pages, p. 288-410.
"Aesopi fabulatoris vita" of Planudes: p. 7-118.
Batrachomyomachia is no longer attributed to Homer. Cf. NAFL85215581.
Illustrations: 61 small woodcuts include 40 ill. of the Fables of Aesop from De Tournes's 1551 ed., of which 37 are ascribed to Bernard Salomon and 3 (fables 46, 100, 118) are repeated from De Tournes' ed. of La Perrière's Theatre des bons engins, 1545. Printer's mark on t.p.
Signatures: a-2C⁸.
Includes index of fables.
Description
410, [6] p. : ill. ; 12 cm (16mo)
Provenance
Formerly owned by Outin (?, signature ?), De Boyuin (?, signature?), J. Toovey (bookplate)
Binding
Citron morocco, gilt.
Classification
Department