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Subject(s)

• Aesop's fables—Translations into Latin—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Fables, Greek—Translations into Latin—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Aesop—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—Germany [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts [Browse]

Author

Aesop [Browse]

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Bookseller

Breslauer, Martin, 1871-1940 [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 101 [Browse]

Notes

• Title from printed catalog.
• Script: Humanistica cursiva.
• Decoration: None.

Binding note

England (?), late 18th or early 19th century. Brown calf over pasteboard, triple-gilt rule around upper and lower covers, outside a frame of floral decoration in blind, a floral stamp in blind in each corner; gilt decoration on edges and spine; five bands, but sewn on four supports; thin brown silk bookmark. Spine title: “vita esopi manuscripta.”

Contents

• 1.1r-1v: “Vita Esopi fabulatoris Clarissimi e greco latina per Rimicium facta ad Reuerendissimum patrem Dominum Anthonium Tituli Sancti Chrysogoni presbiterum Cardinalem, et primo prohemium. [No]vas nimirum merces Reverendissime pater, sed haud ignauia opum pondera, nuper e grecia in latinum conuexi, vitam scilicet Esopi fabulatoris Clarissimi ...” Explicit: “... loco argmenti pauca suggessi.”
• 2.1v-31v: “Argumentum. [V]itam Esopi fabulatoris Clarissimi his longioribus noctibus ... suasque aures nimirum delectabit. Incipit Vita Esopi.: [Q]vi per omnem uitam uite studiosissimus fuit is fortuna seruus, natione phrygius ex ammonio phrygie pago fuit Esopus ...” Explicit: “... delphos profecti habita diligentius inquisitione, dignis suppliciis ulti sunt eos qui mortis Esopi auctores fuerunt. Finis.”
• 3. 32r-40v: “Argumentum: fabularum Esopi e greco in Latinum. [E]sopus fabulator clarissimus natione quidem frigius, fortuna non seruus fuit colorem niger, ac facie supra modum deformis ... ordinem alphabeti in greco secutus que in latino sermone seruari non potest: hinc sumit initium. De Aquila et Vulpe. [A]quila et uulpes conflata inter se amici- tia in proximo habitare constituunt ...” Explicit: “[A]mici duo dum rus uiarent ursa eis obuiam occurit: qua prospecta alter eorum uitas ut se saluatet continuo arborem ascendit: Alter cum||”

Provenance

Garrett MS. 101 is of unknown early provenance. Intermediate ownership is unknown. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript in September 1905 from the Berlin antiquarian bookseller Martin Breslauer (1871-1940). Garrett's bookplate is on the inside front cover. His gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 226-227.

Cite as

Garrett MS. 101, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other title(s)

• Fabulae
• Vita Esopi manuscripta
• Vita Aesopi. Latin.

OCLC

1098108623

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