AESOP 1518 Aesopi Phrygis vita et fabellae [and other text

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AESOP; et al. Aesopi Phrygis vita et fabellae [and other texts]. Greek text with Latin translation on facing pages, except for Galeomyomachia in Greek only. General and divisional titles within woodcut ornamental border; printer's white-on-black woodcut device at end of each part. 262, [2]; 126 pages; lacks last (colophon?) leaf. 5 parts in 2 volumes, bound in one. Small 8vo, later 18th-/early 19th-century boards, backstrip defective; margins trimmed affecting title borders and sidenotes, some dampstaining, paper corrosion in upper outer corners of opening leaves and along fore edges elsewhere, final text leaf torn with text loss. Basel: (Johann Froben, 1518)

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In addition to the text of Aesop and biography of him by Maximus Planudes, this collection includes fables by Babrius; excerpts from writings by Aphthonius, Philostratus, and Hermogenes on fable literature; Homer, Batrachomyomachia; Musaeus, De Ero & Leandro; Agapetus, De officio regis; the Hippocratic Oath; and Theodore Prodromus, Galeomyomachia. Hoffmann I, 63-64.