1459 1895 no. 2 I ,i t1& 'X. CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Cornell University Library The original of tliis bool< is in tlie Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924088396019 Compliments Op m GEORGE C. KEIDEL. (v (Romance an^ O^Per ^tu^m BY GEORGE C. KEIDEL, PH.D., Assistant in Romance Languages in the Johns Hopkins University. Number Two: A MANUAL OF ^SOPIC FABLE LITERATURE. A First Book of Reference for the Period Ending A. D. 1500. FIRST FASCICULE. (With Three Facsimiles.) BALTIMORE: THE FRIEDENWALD COMPANY, 1896. Jl (manuaf of A FIRST BOOK OF REFERENCE FOR THE PERIOD ENDING A. D. 1500, BY GEORGE C. KEIDEL, Ph.D., Assistant in Romance Languages in the Johns Hopkins University. FIRST FASCICULE. (With Three Facsimiles.) CONTENTS. PAGE Title Page to the Series i Title Page iii Contents v Prefatory Note vi Facsimiles vi Introduction. General Remarks on Fable Literature vii Subjects for Investigation viii Intrinsic Value of the ^sopic Fable xi Mode of Construction and Limitations of the First Fascicule . xii Non Vidimus xv Description of Facsimiles xvi General Bibliography. History of ^sopic Fable Literature i History of Related Subjects 3 History of Special Fields of Fable Literature 4 Definitions of Fable 6 History of Single Fables 7 Tables of Fable Literature 8 Incunabula. Editions and Descriptions 9 Extant Copies 28 Reference Lists S3 a. Authors S3 b. Cities Where Printed 54 c. Printers ss d. Size of the Folio Editions . s^ e. Size of the Quarto Editions S9 /. Languages 60 g. Cities Where Preserved 61 h. Alphabetical List of Sales and Catalogues 66 i. Chronological List of Sales and Catalogues 69 /. Prices Brought 72 k. Bibliographers' Vidimus 7S /. Former Owners 75 PREFATORY NOTE. Among the earliest appointments to the Academic Staff of the Johns Hopkins University made by the Board of Trustees was that of Arthur Marshall Elliott on June 5, 1876, to be an Associate in Languages, and it is in com- memoration of the twentieth anniversary of this most important event in the history of the Romance Studies of America, representing as it does the beginning of a double decennium of incessant effort to raise the standard of modern linguistic work in the New World, that this first fascicule of a. Manual 0/ ySsopic Fable Literature '\% issued by one of his pupils as a tribute and memorial of a long period of labor under his direction and inspiration. By a singular coincidence this same date of June 5, 1896, marks approximately the close of a decennium of con- tinuous attendance at the Johns Hopkins University by the author of the present book, and at once a lustrum of association with Professor Elliott in his work in Fable Literature, the special subject to which this publication is devoted. George C. Keidel, Assistant in Romance Languages. Johns Hopkins University, "yune 5, 1896. , fBas Aiv blat t Wie vicct) fabcl von tern bunb vnb fd^aff- <;ialH?aff cmjeo?Jt6Wajtc vmb £11! pz^t C«5 ccfm fifelibcftbct 63 rd>af Uuguet vn fpmd? Iftl>:thcmb20t\»nimcmp|hitg^c»-5ec hnnbiiimct ficb 3cud?nup btc tx>m:5 ]m ^ubojc ctkcnnct tto ujrttb fik^ryO^m cm woIff &ec fpmd? -^c^ vs^mp da^ ct jnt. eti5 b;ot ctcHbcrt b^it-^ilct: em tpcp 06 am; 5xc fpmd^s id; bin e»tbcp jie«?cfcn-bo 6 gctrbmcm ^'cg fpmd> a 5« 5?m f^af«\x>ic jjctatfm Imigtmr e»abu cn?|:f>iii Ifcii l)aft.tws fdbitf wm:b ubcc\»un5en mit e>:ci f{c,