Ysopet-Avionnet
By: the Latin and French texts, ed. by Kenneth McKenzie and William A. Oldfather.
Contributors: Aesop.; Avianus.; Romulus.; Anonymus Neveleti.; Walter, of England, abp. of Palermo, fl. 1177.; McKenzie, Kenneth, 1870- ed.; Oldfather, William Abbott, 1880-1945, joint ed.; Aesop.; Bibliothèque nationale (France).
Series: University of Illinois studies in language and literature.; vol. V, no. 4
Publisher: The University of Illinois
Published: 1919
Place of publication: [Urbana]
Language: eng; lat; fre
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Aesop's fables -- Illustrations; Fables, Latin -- Translations into French; Fables, Greek -- Translations into Latin; French poetry -- To 1500; Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens, reproductions, etc; Fables, Classical -- Illustrations
Genres: Translations into French.; Translations into Latin.
Other titles: Esopus moralisatus.
Notes: Edition of 64 Æsopic, and 18 fables of Avianus in Latin and Old French.  The Æsopic fables are, with a few exceptions, derived from the paraphrase of Romulus in distichs known as "Esopus moralisatus" ("Anonymus Neveleti") by some authorities ascribed to Walter of England.--The text is based in the main upon three closely related illustrated mss. of the 14th century (Brussels, Bibl. roy. lll93; Brit. mus. Add. 33781; Paris, Bibl. nat. fonds franç. 1594).  The title "Ysopet-Avionnet" was originally given to the fables of Avianus alone (cf. A. C. M. Robert, Fables inédites ... vol. I, 1825); in this edition it denotes the 2 parts: Isopet or Aesop, and Avionnet or Avianus.
In the plates "we have reproduced from the rotary prints (hence white on black), and on a somewhat reduced scale, the complete series of illustrations which appear in P [the Paris ms.] together with a few characteristic selections from the series in B and L [the Brussels and London mss.]"  cf. Introd.