Title: Fabulæ variorum auctorum, nempè Æsopi fabulæ Græco-Latinæ CCXCVII. Aphthonii soph[ista] fabulæ Gr[aeco] Lat[inae] XL. Gabriæ fab[ulae] Gr[aeco] Lat[inae] XLIII. Babriæ fab[ulae] Gr[aeco] Lat[inae] XI. accedunt Anonymi veteris fabulæ [...]
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Full title:</b> Fabulæ variorum auctorum, nempè Æsopi fabulæ Græco-Latinæ CCXCVII. Aphthonii soph[ista] fabulæ Gr[aeco] Lat[inae] XL. Gabriæ fab[ulae] Gr[aeco] Lat[inae] XLIII. Babriæ fab[ulae] Gr[aeco] Lat[inae] XI. accedunt Anonymi veteris fabulæ, Latino carmine redditæ LX. ex exsoletis editionibus &amp; Codice MS. luci redditæ. Hæc omnia ex Bibliotheca Palatina. Adjiciuntur insuper Phædri fabulæ XC. Avieni fabulæ XLII. Abstemii fabulæ CXCVIIII. Opera &amp; Studio Isaaci Nicolai Neveleti Cum notis ejusdem in eadem. Cum figuris ligneis. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 8vo. pp. [16], 678, [2]. Signatures: (:)⁸ A-2T⁸ 2C⁴. Contemporary vellum. Final leaf blank. Head- and tailpieces, engraved initials. Numerous woodcuts through text, signed "VS". Greek fables in parallel columns with Latin translations; other fables, preface, and notes in Latin.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">A reissue of the sheets printed by Nikolaus Hoffmann in 1610, with new preliminaries. This is the edition of Aesop’s work which was impugned by the eminent Cambridge philologist Richard Ben</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">tley (see Bib# 1226831, 1204575, 4102609, 4102610/Fr# 39-42 in this collection). The anachronistic accretions of Babrius, taken from Maximus Planudes (14th century), were first formally ‘canonized’ by Nevelet: see also Thomas Tyrwhitt’s Auctarium dissertationis de Babrio (7 pp.) in Περὶ λίθων. De lapidibus, poema Orpheo a quibusdam adscriptum, graece et latine, ex editione Jo. Matthiae Gesneri; recensuit notasque adjecit Thomas Tyrwhitt. London: Printed by John Nichols, 1781 (Cf. Bib# 4302657/Fr# 34).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4102570" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>