Ysopet-Avionnet
Subtitle: the Latin and French texts
By: ed. by Kenneth McKenzie and William A. Oldfather
Contributors: Avianus.; Romulus, King of Rome; Anonymus Neveleti; Walter, of England, abp. of Palermo, fl. 1177; McKenzie, Kenneth, 1870-1949; Oldfather, W. A. 1880-1945; Bibliothèque nationale (France).
Series: University of Illinois studies in language and literature. vol. 5, no. 4
Publisher: The University of Illinois
Published: 1919
Place of publication: [Urbana]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Aesop -- Illustrations; Fables; French poetry -- To 1500; Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens
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

With: The influence of Christianity on the vocabulary of Old English poetry / Albert Keiser. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1919