Fables.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Fictitious narratives usually with animals or inanimate objects as protagonists, intended to convey a hidden meaning regarding human conduct.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Fables from the `Novus Aesopus` of Alexander Neckam., Before 1218.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.9(v), folios 57 verso-59 verso
Scope and Contents
The fables are numbers 31-32, 34, 38-39, 41-42, 19, 8, 6, 1, 9-10, 13-16, 20-25 in ‘Les Fabulistes latins’, ii, pages 392-416. An additional fable, not printed in ‘Les Fabulistes latins’, is given between numbers 19 and 8 (folio 58 verso, column b), beginning `Arboris in patula mel reperit ursa caverna`. The last fable breaks off after line 5. It is followed by a partially erased colophon, `Explicit liber...`.
Dates:
Before 1218.
Interleaved copy of ‘Fabularum aesopicarum delectus, cum Rogeri L'Estrange, equitis, interpretatione Anglica, necnon Latina variorum, Horatii, Phaedri, Faerni, &c. In usum studiosae juventutis Academiae Edinensis’ (Edinburgi, apud Jacobum Watson, MDCCX) with manuscript annotations of the first half of the eighteenth century on the interleaves., 1st half of 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.16484
Scope and Contents
The annotations consist of:
(i) Parsing, translation and etymology (all in Latin) of words from the Greek text of fables 1-34, almost identical with the corresponding part of MS.16485 (folios 1-23);
(ii) A writing exercise (folio 24);
(iii) Latin translations of fables 35-36, 38 (folios 24 verso, 27);
(iv) Lists of the sons of Sir James Grant of Grant, the children of Sir James Colquhoun of Luss, and the daughters of Sir James Grant of Grant (folio 26 recto and verso);
(v) A Latin version...
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript annotations of the first half of the eighteenth century on interleaved copies of ‘Fabularum aesopicarum delectus, cum Rogeri L'Estrange, equitis, interpretatione Anglica, necnon Latina variorum, Horatii, Phaedri, Faerni, &c. In usum studiosae juventutis Academiae Edinensis’ (Edinburgi, apud Jacobum Watson, MDCCX).