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Fabulae [French] Les apologues et fables (Tr: from the Latin of Laurentius Valla by Guillaume Tardif). Add: Francesco Petrarca: De salibus virorum illustrium ac facetiis [French] Ditz des sages hommes (Tr: Guilielmus Tardivus)
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AuthorAesopus
TitleFabulae [French] Les apologues et fables (Tr: from the Latin of Laurentius Valla by Guillaume Tardif). Add: Francesco Petrarca: De salibus virorum illustrium ac facetiis [French] Ditz des sages hommes (Tr: Guilielmus Tardivus)
Imprint[Paris : Antoine Vérard, about 1493]
Imprint[about 1490]
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NotesDated by CIBN (correcting GW's transcription); GW and Goff date about 1490. The Paris BN copy has a leaf after the title with Tardif's dedication to Charles VIII. Woodcuts
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Reference worksGoff: Goff, Frederick R. Incunabula in American libraries: a third census. Millwood (N.Y.), 1973. (Reproduced from the annotated copy of the original edition (New York, 1964) maintained by Goff). (Supplement. New York, 1972.) A109
HC: Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain’s Repertorium Bibliographicum. Part I. London, 1895. 341
C: Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain’s Repertorium bibliographicum, Part II. 2 vols. & Addenda. London, 1898 & 1902. 5943
Macf: Macfarlane, John. Antoine Vérard. London, 1910. (Illustrated monographs issued by the Bibliographical Society, VII). 103
Cl: Claudin, Anatole. Histoire de l’imprimerie en France au XVe et au XVIe siècle. 4 vols. Paris, 1900-14. Tables alphabétiques (rédigées par P. Lacombe). Paris, 1915 (repr. Nendeln, 1971). tables 161
Pell Ms: Pellechet, Marie and Polain, M.L. Catalogue général … (MS of unpublished volumes, reproduced from the original now in the Bibliothèque Nationale.) 23 vols. Nendeln, 1970. (The MS number is quoted first, followed by the number added for the printed edition quoted in parentheses except after 10438 (10196), where the MS numeration ceases). 11411
CIBN: Bibliothèque Nationale. Catalogue des incunables. T. I (Xylographes, A-G); T. II (H-Z). Paris, 1981-2014. A-61
Morg(B): Pollard, A.W. Catalogue of … early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett … and other sources now forming portion of the library of J. Pierpont Morgan. 3 vols. London, 1907. 502
Bod-inc: A catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library. 6 vols. Oxford, 2005. A-050
Sheppard: Sheppard, L.A. Catalogue of XVth century books in the Bodleian Library. [Unpublished MS, 1954-71]. 6249
GW: Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. Bd. I [etc.] Stuttgart, etc., 1968- [in progress]. (Vols. 1-7 reproduced with additions and corrections from the original edition (Leipzig, etc., 1925-38)). [See also GW Manuskript - GW M: http://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de] 345
Related resourcesMicrofiche: Primary Source Microfilm (an imprint of Cengage Learning), 2005. Incunabula: the Printing Revolution in Europe 1455-1500. Unit 66 - Printing in French Part II, FR 114
Holdings
FranceParis, Bibliothèque nationale de France (vellum, wanting title)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandLondon, British Library (IB.41209) (Acquisition 1958 from Chatsworth, not in BMC)
Oxford, Bodleian Library (2 ff.)
United States of AmericaNew York NY, The Morgan Library and Museum
Washington DC, Library of Congress, Rare Book Division, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (f.1-22)
Number of holding institutions5
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