Vita et Fabulae
Contributors: Rinuccio, d'Arezzo, approximately 1395-; Romulus; Anonymus Neveleti; Avianus; Petrus Alfonsi, 1062-1110?; Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459; Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Heinrich Knoblochtzer
Published: 1481
Place of publication: Strassburg
Language: lat
Number of pages: 114
Subjects: Greek Fables; Translations into Latin
Work titles: Aesop's fables. Latin
Notes: Compiled by Heinrich Steihöwel and originally published ca. 1477 (Ulm, Zainer). Cf. Steinhöwel's Äsop, hrsg. von H. Österley, 1873 (Bibliothek des Litterarischen Vereins in Stuttgart, 117).

Contains Vita Aesopi, translated by Rinuccio; Fabulae, books 1-4 in the prose version of Romulus, books 1-3 also in the metrical version of the Anonymus Neveleti; Fabulae extravagantes; Fabulae novae, translated by Rinuccio; Fabulae, by Avianus; Fabulae collectae, by Petrus Alfonsi, Poggio, and others.

LC copy: initials, initial strokes, and paragraph marks supplied in red. Original leather binding, stamped brass corners, center piece, and clasps.

Rosenwald 83

Goff A-113

Hain 324

Hain-Copinger 325

BM 15th cent., I, p. 88 (IB.1136) (variant)

GW 348

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