| Record ID | cp011884 |
| Voet reference number | 18 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:1132808 |
| Author | AESOPUS |
| Title page transcription | FABELLÆ ‖ ALIQVOT ‖ ÆSOPICÆ, ‖ In vsum puerorum selectæ. ‖ ⊕ 42 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Apud Christophorum Plantinum. ‖ M.D.LXXXVI. |
| Collation | 16mo [94]: A-F⁸; pages 1-92, [93-96] |
| Fingerprint | 158612 - # b1 A2 eglig : # b2 F5 it$a |
| Number of sheets | 3.92 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank 3-85: Text (parts in italic type) 86-92: Nux (italic type) [93]: vignette (typographical fleurons) [94-96]: Blank |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | Woodcuts: 1) 42 illustrations, c. 55 × 55, of which 26 bear the monogram of the woodcutter Arnold Nicolai 2) 1 illustration, c. 50 × 55, on page 3 |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - A 512Allard PiersonLeiden University LibrariesUNamur- R4Z.0086 |
| Digital copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus: R 51.31 |
| Bibliographical references | J. Landwehr, Fable-Books printed in the Low Countries, no. 54 Not in Ruelens-de Backer and KüsterCockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 5006 Valkema Blouw, Typographia Batava 68 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12920614USTC 406750 |
| Note 1 | Collection of 86 Latin fables of Aesop, 43 of them illustrated. Of these woodcuts 39 had been used in Plantin's editions of the Fables of Faernius (1566, 1567, 1573, 1585: see nos. 1162-1165); the remaining four in the Emblemata of Alciatus, 1584 (2 woodcuts: pages 45 and 79), of Junius, 1585 (1: page 19) and of Sambucus, 1584 (1: page 3). |
| Note 2 | The printer's mark on the title-page and the formula of the address ('Apud Christophorum Plantinum') make it clear that this edition was in fact printed in the Officina Plantiniana Francisci Raphelengii in Leiden. A copy with the Leiden-imprint of F. Raphelengius in Nationalbibliothek Vienna. |
| Note 3 | Not listed in M 164, M 296, and M 321. |
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