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Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae, elegantissimis eiconibus veras animalium species ad viuum 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.

Accession number
PML 127218
Published
Lugduni : Apud Ioan. Tornaesium, 1551.
Credit line
Purchased on the Bühler Fund, 1991.
Notes
"Aesopi fabulatoris vita" of Planudes: p. 7-118.
Batrachomyomachia is no longer attributed to Homer. Cf. NAFL85215581.
Edited by Adam Knopff. Cf. "Typographus Lectori", p. [382].
Greek portion of title romanized.
Ill. hand colored.
Illustrations: 40 small woodcuts illustrating the Fables of Aesop, 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.
Includes index of fables.
Signatures: a-2A⁸(-2A8, blank?).
Description
375, [7], [1] p. : ill. ; 12 cm (16mo)
Provenance
F. Annibal Destouches (inscription, dated 1834).
Binding
Modern vellum.
Classification
Department