Auctores octo : contine[n]tes libros videlicet Cathonem, Facetum, Theodosum, De conte[m]ptu mundi, Floretum, Alanum De parabolis, Fabulas Esopi, Thobiam

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Title: Auctores octo : contine[n]tes libros videlicet Cathonem, Facetum, Theodosum, De conte[m]ptu mundi, Floretum, Alanum De parabolis, Fabulas Esopi, Thobiam
Alternative Title: Auctores octo
Contributor: Cato, the Younger.
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153.
Alanus, de Insulis, -1202.
Aesop.
Alain, Pierre, active 15th century, printer.
Cauvin, André, active 15th century, printer.
Published / Created: [17 May, 1491]
Publication Place: Angoulême, France and France Angoulême.
Publisher: Petrus Alanus and Andreas Calvinus
Description: BEIN MS 1042.3: Imperfect: Beinecke Library has fragments of 24 leaves from quires b, c, e and g.
BEIN MS 1042.3: These fragments were removed from the original binding of the manuscript Harangues et oraisons des anciens, Beinecke MS 1042 (Paris, circa 1530). From the collection of Anne de Polignac, comtesse de Rochefoucauld (wife of François II), which later came into the possession of the duc de Rohan, and then was purchased at the Labitte sale by Comte Ernest Armand. Purchased from Sam Fogg, London, on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
BEIN MS 1042.3: Unbound. Covered in sheet of paper with manuscript note: Fragments d'un livre imprimé à Angoulême, à une date inconnue et intitulé: Auctores octo.
Signatures: a-r⁸ s⁶.
Description based on Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke 2777.
"... correcto[rum] impresso[rum][que] engolisme die .xvii. mensis maii. Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxxxi."--Colophon.
Extent: [282] pages ; (4to)
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Beinecke MS 1042.3
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Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Early works to 1800
Fables
Incunabula
Printed waste
Resource Type: text
Subject (Topic): Fables
Christian ethics
Christian philosophy
Subjects: Fables > Early works to 1800
Christian ethics > Early works to 1800
Christian philosophy > Early works to 1800
France. Angoulême. Alain, Pierre. 1491
France. Angoulême. Cauvin, André. 1491
Rochefoucauld, Anne de Polignac, comtesse de, 1495-1554 > Ownership

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Orbis Record: 6695936
Object ID (OID): 10667961