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FULGENTINUS, Fabius Planciades (fl. end of 5th century). Enarrationes allegoricae fabularum. Edited and with commentary by Johannes Baptista Pius. Milan: Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 23 April 1498.
Chancery 2° (280x202mm). Collation: a-d8 e4 f-g6 (a1r title, a1v privilege granted by Ludovicus Maria Sforza to Johannes Passisanus de Ausula dated 9 Nov. 1492, a2r tabula, a2v editor's dedicatory letter to Antonius Maria Bentivolaeus, a3r text with commentary, f5v colophon, f6 blank, g1r Voces antiquae, g5r verses by the editor to Bentivolaeus, g5v life of Fulgentius, g6v errata). 47 (of 48, without blank f6) leaves. 55 lines of commentary. Type: 3:110R (text), 10:80R (commentary), 110 Greek. Woodcut initials. (Small marginal hole and tear in final 2 leaves, lightly browned, annotations lightly washed.) Nineteenth-century speckled calf over pastepaper boards, marbled endpapers. Provenance: Philip S. King, book-label.
FIRST EDITION. Fulgentius's collection of myths and deeds of gods and heroes contains some details now lost to history, and includes myths of Saturn, Pluto, Mercury, Orpheus, and many others. It is here accompanied by his Voces antiquae, a list of words and phrases, which had fallen into disuse by his age. HC *7392; GW 10423; BMC VI, 773 (IB. 26776); Pellechet-Polain 4936; IDL 1871; IGI 4106
Chancery 2° (280x202mm). Collation: a-d8 e4 f-g6 (a1r title, a1v privilege granted by Ludovicus Maria Sforza to Johannes Passisanus de Ausula dated 9 Nov. 1492, a2r tabula, a2v editor's dedicatory letter to Antonius Maria Bentivolaeus, a3r text with commentary, f5v colophon, f6 blank, g1r Voces antiquae, g5r verses by the editor to Bentivolaeus, g5v life of Fulgentius, g6v errata). 47 (of 48, without blank f6) leaves. 55 lines of commentary. Type: 3:110R (text), 10:80R (commentary), 110 Greek. Woodcut initials. (Small marginal hole and tear in final 2 leaves, lightly browned, annotations lightly washed.) Nineteenth-century speckled calf over pastepaper boards, marbled endpapers. Provenance: Philip S. King, book-label.
FIRST EDITION. Fulgentius's collection of myths and deeds of gods and heroes contains some details now lost to history, and includes myths of Saturn, Pluto, Mercury, Orpheus, and many others. It is here accompanied by his Voces antiquae, a list of words and phrases, which had fallen into disuse by his age. HC *7392; GW 10423; BMC VI, 773 (IB. 26776); Pellechet-Polain 4936; IDL 1871; IGI 4106