• Fabulae Aesopi Graece et Latine, nunc denuo selectae : eae item, quas Avienus carmine expressit : accedit Ranarum it murium pugna, Homero olim asscripta : cum elegantissimis in utroque libello figuris, & utriusque interpretatione, plurimis in locis emendatâ : ex decreto D.D. Hollandiae ordinum, in usum scholarum

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Language:
  • Latin
  • Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Call number:
  • Euro 18 26158
Extent:
  • 134 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (woodcuts), 17 cm (8°)
Format:
  • Book
Type:
  • Fables
  • Woodcuts
  • Adaptations
Description:
  • This edition of Aesop was approved for use in Dutch schools; to it is appended some of Avianus's versified fables and also the Battle of Frogs and Mice with Greek and Latin text on facing pages.
  • Interpretative notes on two pages at end (I4) in Latin (recto) and Greek (verso).
  • Illustrations: 46 woodcuts, including title-page cut and woodcut vignettes at the head of each fable.
  • Signatures: A-H⁸ I⁴.
Publisher:
  • Amstelaedami, Apud Jansonio-Waesbergios, MCCXXVI [1726]
Subject:
  • Fables—Adaptations
  • Fables—18th century
  • Woodcuts—Netherlands—18th century
Title sort:
  • Fabulae Aesopi Graece et Latine, nunc denuo selectae : eae item, quas Avienus carmine expressit : accedit Ranarum it murium pugna, Homero olim asscripta : cum elegantissimis in utroque libello figuris, & utriusque interpretatione, plurimis in locis emendatâ : ex decreto D.D. Hollandiae ordinum, in usum scholarum.
Alternative:
  • Ranarum it murium pugna
Created:
  • 1726-01-01T00:00:00Z
Date:
  • 1726
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/wh247130b
Location:
  • CTSN Euro 18 26158
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Range label:
  • Logical
Uniform title:
  • Aesop's fables. Latin & Greek
Creator:
  • Aesop
Contributor:
  • Avianus
References:
  • Landwehr, J. Emblem and fable books (3rd ed.) F026
Author:
  • Aesop
Text language:
  • Text in Greek and Latin in parallel columns.