[38] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)

Title in Greek and Latin from incipit on leaf a2 recto

Imprint derived from colophon (e6 recto): Regii Impressum per Dionysium bertochum Anno salutis MCCCCLXXXXVII

Comprises only the additional Fables, as in the Bonus Accursius edition [Milan]: Bonus Accursius, [about 1478], for which see GW 313 and ISTC ia00098000

Translated from Greek into Latin by Rinucius Aretinus

Edited by Bonus Accursius [or Bonaccursius] Pisanus, i.e. Bonaccorso da Pisa

Text in two columns, in parallel Greek (left) and Latin (right) versions

Signatures: a-d⁸ e⁶ (most signatures in Greek letters, with the exception of those on leaves a2 and b1)

Chancery quarto; printed in double columns, in parallel Greek (left) and Latin (right), a4 recto: 25 lines, 139 x 97 mm; types: 111Gk, 111R; initial spaces with guide letters

Bonus Accursius. [Letter to] Johannes Franciscus Turrianus, a1 verso -- Aesopus. Fabulae, in parallel Greek and Latin, translated by Rinucius Aretinus, edited by Bonus Accursius, a2 recto-e6 recto -- colophon, e6 recto

COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.406.19 leaf dimensions 197 x 151 mm.

PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.406.19 with the bookplates of Charles H. Slessor and the BPL Benton Fund. Dealer's notes, etc. Unidentified pritned dealer's description laid on to front flyleaf verso. Bookplate of Goerge Dunn, Woolly Hall, near Maidenhaed, on rear pastedown. Purchased from Georges Heilbrun in June, 1967. Former call number Q.497.Ae8F.

BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.406.19 bound in ca. 19th-century rigid vellum. Red and black spine labels.

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