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AESOP Fabule et Vita esopi: cum fabulis Aviani: Alfonsii: Pogii florentini: et aliorum: cum optimo commento: bene diligentero correcte et emendate, Colophon: Antwerp, Gerard Leeu, 26 September 1486 image 1
AESOP Fabule et Vita esopi: cum fabulis Aviani: Alfonsii: Pogii florentini: et aliorum: cum optimo commento: bene diligentero correcte et emendate, Colophon: Antwerp, Gerard Leeu, 26 September 1486 image 2
AESOP Fabule et Vita esopi: cum fabulis Aviani: Alfonsii: Pogii florentini: et aliorum: cum optimo commento: bene diligentero correcte et emendate, Colophon: Antwerp, Gerard Leeu, 26 September 1486 image 3
AESOP Fabule et Vita esopi: cum fabulis Aviani: Alfonsii: Pogii florentini: et aliorum: cum optimo commento: bene diligentero correcte et emendate, Colophon: Antwerp, Gerard Leeu, 26 September 1486 image 4
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AESOP
Fabule et Vita esopi: cum fabulis Aviani: Alfonsii: Pogii florentini: et aliorum: cum optimo commento: bene diligentero correcte et emendate, Colophon: Antwerp, Gerard Leeu, 26 September 1486

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AESOP

Fabule et Vita esopi: cum fabulis Aviani: Alfonsii: Pogii florentini: et aliorum: cum optimo commento: bene diligentero correcte et emendate, 99 leaves (of 104, lacking a2, a5, b3, b4 and f3), 46 lines with headline, Gothic letter, 184 large woodcut illustrations (title and 11 coloured by hand in several colours, subsequent 4 partially coloured in pink-red, a few of the remainder touched with red), rubricated in red throughout, large initials provided in alternate red and blue, some marginal annotations in an early hand, 8 lines struck through in ink on one leaf, F1 defective with loss to part of 11 lines, tears neatly closed on 12 leaves (including title), contemporary calf over wooden boards, rebacked preserving part of early spine, later metal clasps and catches [ISTC ia00114000; BMC IX, 187; Goff A114; GW 349; Hain 329; Proctor 9361], folio (280 x 195mm.), Colophon: Antwerp, Gerard Leeu, 26 September 1486

Footnotes

MAGNIFICENTLY ILLUSTRATED INCUNABLE EDITION OF AESOP. The woodcuts derive from those first used in an edition of Aesop printed by Johann Zainer at Ulm, c.1476-7, and are, in all but four instances, taken from the blocks used for the Latin Aesop printed by Knoblochtzer at Strasbourg, c.1481. Subsequently the blocks were passed to Johann Koehloff the Elder, of Cologne, who used them for his German Aesop of 1489. The text includes Rinucius's translation of the life of Aesop, and Romulus' prose version of the Fables, and several fables by other authors.

Provenance: "Liber S. Nicolaiin... 1700", inscription on leaf a3; Bibliotheque Impériale Impr., circular red stamp on title (just touching image) and leaf a3, dating from c.1865-1870; Prof. Victor Goldschmidt, Heidelberg, ink stamp on final leaf.

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