[Vita et fabulae].

Accession number: 
PML 27750
Author: 
Aesop.
Published: 
[Augsburg] : [Anton Sorg], [not before 1483]
Description: 
[130] leaves : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 27 cm (fol.)
Notes: 

194 woodcuts. Woodcuts are those from Johann Zainer's edition of about 1476-1477 (ISTC ia00116000).
Collation: a-p⁸ q¹⁰: 130 leaves, leaf q10 blank.
Dated by BSB-Ink from the first use of Sorg's type 4. GW dates about 1480. Morgan Catalogue of 1939 dates this edition as 1485.
Incipit (leaf a2r): Vita Esopi fabulatoris clarissimi e greco latina per Rimicium facta ad revere[n]dissimu[m] patrem dominu[m] Anthoniu[m] Tituli sancti Chrisogoni prespiterum Cardinalem.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.6 x 19 cm
PML copy missing 5 leaves: a1.8, b1, and q1.10, and margins of leaves f4-7 cut away.
Printed in Sorg's types 3:140G and 4:109G.
Title derived from ISTC.

Binding: 
Modern quarter brown goatskin over early wooden boards (29 x 21 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands. Boards retain evidence of previous clasp.
Variant Title: 

Checklist title: Vita et fabulae

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, L-brackets, and captial strokes. Annotations: A few early marginal notations/corrections. Inscription: "Da tua dum tua sunt, nam post mortem tua non sunt", 18th century (leaf a2r).

Provenance: 
Weingarten (Baden-Württemberg), Benedictines, St. Martin, inscription, 1665: "Monasterij Weingartensis A°. 1665" (leaf a2r); Württemberg Landesbibliothek (formerly Königliche Handbibliothek), ink stamps, deaccessioned 1901 (leaf a2r) and former spine shelf mark: "[?]B Incun. 26" (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E.P. Goldschmidt for £210, Oct. 1930.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Incunabula
Woodcuts
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Quarter bindings (Binding)
Wooden boards (Binding)
Century: 
20th century
Department: 
Printed Books