Aisōpou mythoi
Publisher: Bartholomaei pelusii Iustinopolitani, Gabrielis bracii Brasichellensis, Ioannis Bissoli, et Benedicti Mangii Carpensium sumptibus impressa
Published: 1498
Place of publication: Venice
Language: grc; lat
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Greek Fables
Work titles: Aesop's fables 1498
Notes: Edited by Gabriel Braccius.

Title from text incipit (leaf [gamma]6r).

Begins (leaf [alpha]1r): Gabrièl Bracius brasichellensis bonaru[m] artium cultoribus. S.

Printer statement from colophon; place of publication and date from GW.

Signatures: [alpha]-[delta]⁸ 2[epsilon]⁸ [zeta]⁸.

Initial spaces, with guide-letters.

In the Houghton Library copy, the catchword on leaf [zeta]6v has been corrected by hand-stamping.

"Aisōpou bios tou mythopoiou; Maximō tō Planoudē syngrapheis": leaves [alpha]2r-[gamma]5v.

Hain-Copinger, 267.

Proctor, 5640.

Goff, A-97.

GW, 312.

BM 15th cent., V, 578 (IA.24708).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), ia00097000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2740.

Text in Greek, with editor's letter in Latin.

From the library of Viscount Carlo Caburri, with his bookplate.

Bound with: Pseudo-Phalaris, Epistolae (Venice: Pelusius, Braccius, Bissolus, Mangius, 18 June 1498).

Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication.

A few contemporary MS corrections in text.

Bound in 19th-century black morocco by Bauzonnet-Trautz, with a crowned monogram "W" (?) stamped in gilt at the four corners of the covers; edges gilt.