Aesopus: Vita et Fabulae [Greek].

Edited by Gabriel Bracius.

[Venice:]  Bartholomaeus Pelusius, Gabriel Bracius de Brisighella, Johannes Bissolus and Benedictus Mangius, [ca. 1498]
4to.   α-δ8  εε8 ζ8.   [48] leaves.
ISTC ia00097000; GW 312; Goff A97; BMC V 578 (IA. 24708); Bod-inc A-042; CIBN A-55.

GIP number: A9
Shelf-mark: Sp Coll Hunterian By.3.41 (see main library entry for this item)
Provenance: Robert Hoblyn (1710-1756), politician: 'Bibliotheca Hoblyniana' (Londini: 1769), 296; Hoblyn sale, lot 5192 in 'Bibliotheca Hoblyniana ...' (London: Baker & Leigh, 1778).
William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist:  purchased by Hunter at the Hoblyn sale for £2.3.0 according to the annotated BL copy of the Hoblyn sale catalogue - shelfmark S.C.S. 11(4).
University of Glasgow:  Hunterian bequest, 1807.
Binding: Modern parchment;  bound by Douglas Cockerell & Son, Nov. 1954, with binder’s note tipped onto rear pastedown;  previously unbound.   Size:  228 x 162 mm.
Leaf size: 222 x 158 mm.
Annotations: Single word marginal annotation on δ8v.
Decoration: None.
Imperfections: None.

Editor's letter in Latin and the Life of Aesop in Greek in Aesopus: Vita et Fabulae [Greek]

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