Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews collection of early books in the Library of Yale University.

  • Yale University Library
Date:
1913
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Credit: Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews collection of early books in the Library of Yale University. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    From the Syston Park sale, December, 1884, with book- plate and the monogram (J. H. T.) of Sir John Hayford Thorold. 17. AESOPUS. Vita et fabnlae grace. Vita et fabulae latine. Fabulae selectae grace et latine. [Milan], Bonus Accursius, c. 1480. Part I. Fol. P: Bonus Accursius Pisanus doctissimo sapientissimo ducali quaBstori Iohanni Francisco tur- riano salutem plurimam dicit. Fol. 2s-: ’AISOIIOY BIOS TOY MY0OIIOIOY MAHIMO TO HAANOYAH 2YITPA<I>EI2. Fol. 33*: ’AISOIIOY MY0OI. Fol. 70*: TeXos twv tov ’Aiowov MvOwv. Part II. Fol. P: Vita Aesopi fabulatoris clarissimi e graco latina per Bynucium facta ad Reuerendissimuw Patrem Dominuw Antonium tituli Sancti Chrysogoni Presbyterum Cardinalem et primo prohoemium. Fol. 32h: FINIS. Fol. 33*: Argumentum fabulanm Aesopi e graco in latinum. Fol. 59h: Finis. Vita Aesopi per Bynucium thettalum traducta. Verum quoniam ab eo non nulla fueruwt praetetermissa (sic): fortassis quia gracus eius codex esset minus emendatus: Ego Bonus accursius Pisanus: eadem in ea omnia correxi; et emen- daui. Fol. 60, blank. Part III. Fol. P, blank. Fol. P: Bonus Accursius Pisanus doctissimo ac sapientissimo ducali Quaestori Iohanni francisco Turriano salutem plu- rimam dicit. Fol. 2*, col. 1: MY0OI ’AISOIIOY, col. 2: Fabulae Aesopi. Fol. 38*, col. 1: teaos ton toy ’aismioy MY0ON. Col. 2: FINIS AESOPI FABVLARVM. Bonus Accursius pisanus impressit: qui non doctorum hominum sed rudium ac puerorum gratia hunc laborem suscepit. Quarto. Pt. I, sign. [A-H8, 16] not printed, but stamped irregularly on the extreme lower margin and partially cut away in the binding, 70 leaves. Pt. II, sign, a-g8, and four unsigned leaves at the end, 60 leaves. Pt. Ill, sign. a-b8, C-D8, E6, 38 leaves, the Greek text and the word-for-word Latin trans- lation in two parallel columns. Both the Greek and the Latin have 25 lines to the page or column. Two- to five-line spaces for capitals, with guide- letters, in both texts, but no rubrication. Two pinholes. Hain *265-}-272. Pellechet 185-J-192. Proctor, Printing of Greek in the 15th cent., p. 60.
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