Aesopi Phrygis et aliorum fabulae : elegantissimis iconibus illustratae, et diligentius, quàm antehac emendatae.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ziletti, Francesco, -1587?, printer.

Aesop.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Aesop's fables. Latin. 1581.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Aesop.

Fables, Greek--Translations into Latin--Early works to 1800.

Fables, Greek.

Genre:

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Italy -- Venice -- 16th century.

Penn Provenance:

Bulgarini, Belisario, 1538 or 9-ca. 1621 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Norris, Isaac, 1802-1890 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

295 pages, 17 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 14 cm (12mo)

Other Title:

Aesopi Phrygis et aliorvm fabvlae

Fingerprint:

s-f- orfo o-on nabe (3) 1581 (R)

Place of Publication:

Venetiis : Apud Franciscum Zilettum, MDLXXXI [1581]

Notes:

Signatures: A-N¹² (last leaf blank)

Woodcuts: device on title page; in text illustrations.

"Aesopi fabulatoris vita": on p. 3-52.

Printer Ziletti's device on title page and on recto of last leaf identified as Zappella 367 in EDIT 16.

EDIT 16 only records a variant issue with different pagination and different leaf A2 bearing fingerprint "S-ef", not s-f- as in this issue. Cf. EDIT 16 CNCE 51909.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy with ink ownership inscription on leaf N11 inscribed: Ex libris Belisarij Bulgarini [....]?

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Isaac Norris, 1802-1890.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. ink annotations in margins.

OCLC:

776921831