Aesopus moralisatus — 15th century, first half; Italian
MS. Add. A. 170
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Description
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Title
Aesopus moralisatus — 15th century, first half; Italian
Shelfmark
MS. Add. A. 170
Place of origin
Italian
Date
15th century, first half
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Decoration
Good initial. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 928) fol. 1r Type initial U Subject Floral designs.
fol. 16v Type drawing, lower margin Subject Human half-figure, emerging from flames, supporting a scroll with catchwords.
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Title
Aesopus moralisatus
Shelfmark
MS. Add. A. 170
Summary
At end: --'Explicit Liber Esopi. Deo gratias. Amen': 62 fables in elegiac verse, with the metrical preface beginning 'Ut iuuet et prosit.' This is the collection of which the author used to be styled the Anonymus Nevelcti (Novelet's edition was published in 1610 at Frankfurt), but now is believed to be Gualterus Anglicus. The distich beginning 'Fine fruor' is found in this manuscript both at the end of the 60th and of the 62nd fable, the two supplementary ones being 'De capone et accipitre' and 'De pastore et lupo.'.
Date
written in about A.D. 1400 in Italy
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, with coloured capitals
Physical extent
20 Leaves
Custodial history
At end:--'Iste liber est mei Becti Nieholai de Rosarmia de Pisis', 15th cent.
Catalogue of the ... collection of Splendid Manuscripts ... formed by M. Guglielmo Libri 1859 no. 13.
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Collection contents
Aesopus moralisatus
