Details

Subject(s)

• Fables [Browse]
• Wood-engraving, German—15th century—Specimens [Browse]

Related name

• Anonymus Neveleti [Browse]
• Walter, of England, Abp. of Palermo, active 1177 [Browse]

Notes

• Brit. Mus. Cat. (XV cent.) II, p. 371 (IA 6376) // Gesamtkat. d. Wiegendr., 414 // Goff. Third census, A-139 //
• Signatures: a-c⁶, d⁴, e-g⁶.
• Leaf [1a] (t. p.): Esopus moralisatus cum bono cõmento.
• Latin metrical version of the Fables by the Anonymus Neveleti (i. e. Walter of England?) with commentary (Graecia disciplinarum) and interlinear gloss in Latin.
• "A reprint from one of Quentell's issues [Cologne]" - Brit. Mus. Cat. (XV cent.)
• Illustrations: large woodcut on t. p. (master and two pupils, with inscription: Accipies tanti docioris [sic] dogmata sancti. Cf. W. L. Schreiber. Die deutschen Accipies... -Holzschnitte. Strassburg, 1908, p. 34-35 and plate 22)
• Rubricated; initials supplied in red, one historiated.
• Binding, modern, of dark brown morocco, blind-stamped.
• Provenance: A[lbert] E[hrmann] (bookplate; stamp), from his Bibliotheca Broxbourniana (bookplate)

Reproduction note

Microfilm. New York, N.Y. : New York Public Library, 2001. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (MN: *ZZ-37543)

Other title(s)

Esopus moralisatus cum bono cõmento.

RCP

N - S

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