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Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae, elegantissimis eiconibus veras animalium species ad vivum adumbrantes. Gabriae Graeci fabellae XXXXIIII [i.e. 43]. Batrachomyomachia Homeri, hoc est, Ranarum & murium pugna. Galeōmyomachia, hoc est, Felium & murium pugna... haec omnia cum Latina interpretatione

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Title: Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae, elegantissimis eiconibus veras animalium species ad vivum adumbrantes. Gabriae Graeci fabellae XXXXIIII [i.e. 43]. Batrachomyomachia Homeri, hoc est, Ranarum & murium pugna. Galeōmyomachia, hoc est, Felium & murium pugna... haec omnia cum Latina interpretatione

Other titles: Fables; Battle of the frogs and mice

Level: Piece

Classmark: BC For C16/AES

Creator(s): Aesop

Additional creator(s): Planudes, Maximus (1260-1310) (Other); Babrius (Other); Prodromus, Theodore (Other); Homer (Other); Knopff, Adam (Other); Salomon, Bernard (1506-1561) (Other); La Perrière, Guillaume de (1499-1565) (Other)

Related people: Planudes, Maximus; Babrius; Prodromus, Theodore; Homer; Knopff, Adam; Salomon, Bernard; La Perrière, Guillaume de

Publisher: Apud Ioan. Tornaesium

Publication city: Lugduni

Date(s): 1551

Language: Latin

Size and medium: 375, [7], [2] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/374678

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003836249705181

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Greek portion of title romanized.


Greek and Latin in parallel columns, p. 3-279. Greek and Latin on opposite pages, p. 280-375.


"Aesopi fabulatoris vita" of Planudes: p. 7-118.


Illustrations: 40 small woodcuts illustrating the Fables of Aesop, of which 37 are ascribed to Bernard Salomon and 3 (fables 46, 100, 118) are repeated from De Tournes' ed. of La Perrière's Theatre des bons engins, 1545. Printer's mark on t.p.


Batrachomyomachia is no longer attributed to Homer. Cf. NAFL85215581.


Edited by Adam Knopff. Cf. "Typographus Lectori", p. [382].


Includes index of fables.


Indexed in: Cartier, A. De Tournes 183.

Additional description

Bound with one other publication in a volume lettered AESOPI PHRYGIS . Volume contents: 1. Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae, 1551. -- 2. Isocratis paraenesis, 1552

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