Fabulæ variorum auctorum, nempè Æsopi fabulæ Græco-Latinæ CCXCVII. Aphthonii soph[ista] fabulæ Gr[aeco] Lat[inae] XL. Gabriæ fab[ulae] Gr[aeco] Lat[inae] XLIII. Babriæ fab[ulae] Gr[aeco] Lat[inae] XI. accedunt Anonymi veteris fabulæ [...]

Full title: Fabulæ variorum auctorum, nempè Æsopi fabulæ Græco-Latinæ CCXCVII. Aphthonii soph[ista] fabulæ Gr[aeco] Lat[inae] XL. Gabriæ fab[ulae] Gr[aeco] Lat[inae] XLIII. Babriæ fab[ulae] Gr[aeco] Lat[inae] XI. accedunt Anonymi veteris fabulæ, Latino carmine redditæ LX. ex exsoletis editionibus & Codice MS. luci redditæ. Hæc omnia ex Bibliotheca Palatina. Adjiciuntur insuper Phædri fabulæ XC. Avieni fabulæ XLII. Abstemii fabulæ CXCVIIII. Opera & Studio Isaaci Nicolai Neveleti Cum notis ejusdem in eadem. Cum figuris ligneis.

8vo. pp. [16], 678, [2]. Signatures: (:)⁸ A-2T⁸ 2C⁴. Contemporary vellum. Final leaf blank. Head- and tailpieces, engraved initials. Numerous woodcuts through text, signed "VS". Greek fables in parallel columns with Latin translations; other fables, preface, and notes in Latin.

A reissue of the sheets printed by Nikolaus Hoffmann in 1610, with new preliminaries. This is the edition of Aesop’s work which was impugned by the eminent Cambridge philologist Richard Bentley (see Bib# 1226831, 1204575, 4102609, 4102610/Fr# 39-42 in this collection). The anachronistic accretions of Babrius, taken from Maximus Planudes (14th century), were first formally ‘canonized’ by Nevelet: see also Thomas Tyrwhitt’s Auctarium dissertationis de Babrio (7 pp.) in Περὶ λίθων. De lapidibus, poema Orpheo a quibusdam adscriptum, graece et latine, ex editione Jo. Matthiae Gesneri; recensuit notasque adjecit Thomas Tyrwhitt. London: Printed by John Nichols, 1781 (Cf. Bib# 4302657/Fr# 34).

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