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Aesopi Phrygis vita et fabulae / à viris doctiss. in Latinam linguam conuersae ; Apologi ex Chiliadibus adagiorum Erasmi ; Ex Lamia Politiani, Crinito, Iohanne Antonio Campano, Gellio, Gerbellio, Mantuano & Horatio ; Fabulae Aniani, Hadriano Barlando, & Guilelmo Hermanno interpretibus ; Fabulae item Laur. Abstemij.

Accession number
PML 125280
Published
Lutetiae : Ex officina Rob. Stephani typographi Regij, M. D. XLV [1545].
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1988-9.
Notes
"Aesopi Fabulatoris vita" by Maximus Planudes: p. 3-45.
Printer's device on t.p.
Colophon: Excudebat Rob. Stephanus typographus regius. Lutetiae, ann. M.D.XLV, XVII cal. Mart.
Signatures: A-P⁸ Q⁴.
Errors in pagination: p. 46-47 numbered 38-39; 96 numbered 36.
Includes index.
Library's copy: lacking Q4 (blank).
Description
235, [11] p. ; 18 cm (8vo)
Inscriptions/Markings
Unidentified inscriptions on first flyleaf. Contemporary annotations throughout first half of text.
Provenance
"Jacobus Nicolaus" (stamped in gold on upper and lower covers). "Tarocus Nurc[?]" inscription on first flyleaf. From the library of the Ramey family (16th-cent. France).
Binding
Contemporary blind- and gold-tooled calf over paperboards; manuscript waste; edges colored purple; sewing structure visible.
Classification
Department