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Title(s):
[Vita et Fabulae]
Additional Title(s):

Incipit: Vita Esopi fabulatoris clarissimi e greco latina

Aesop's fables. German.
Published/Created:
[Ulm] : [Johann Zainer], [circa 1476]
Physical Description:
[288] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0170
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Title from Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrücke.
Imprint from Incunabula short title catalogue.
With 194 woodcut illustrations, including a full-page portrait of the author.
Incunabula short title catalogue, ia00116000
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A116
Reichling, D. Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium bibliographicum, 330
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 351
Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 3020
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0170: Imperfect: 40 non-consecutive leaves, most with hand-colored woodcuts. With marginalia, in a later hand. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Aesop.
Fables, Greek -- Translations into German.
Incunabula in Yale Library.
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
Fragments (object portions)
Hand coloring.
Contributors:
Aesop.
Rinuccio, d'Arezzo, approximately 1395–approximately 1457.
Steinhöwel, Heinrich, 1412–1482?
Zainer, Johann, 1470–1541? printer.
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