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
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
Description
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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