CAPOE JEANS. Directorium humane quickly alias... - Lot 43 - Ader

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CAPOE JEANS. Directorium humane quickly alias... - Lot 43 - Ader
CAPOE JEANS. Directorium humane quickly alias parabola antiquoru(m) sapientu(m). Strasbourg: Johann Prüss, c. 1488.] - In-folio, 276 x 196 : (82 ff.) [sif. ()1 a5 b-m6 n10] ; car. goth. 50 lines. - Cold-stamped fawn calf on wooden ais, dishes decorated with a net frame and a fleur-de-lys wheel, surrounding a decoration of oval compartments containing in their centre a thistle motif, spine ribbed (contemporary binding). Hain, 4411. - BMC, I, 125. - Goff, J-236. ÉDITION PRINCEPS LATINE particularly sought-after edition of the fables of Bidpaï, in the translation made in the XIIIth century by Jean de Capoue (12..-12.. ). It was printed in Strasbourg at the end of the 1480s by Johann Prüss (1447?-1510). Bidpaï is the name of a Brahmin to whom the first apologetic essays are attributed, which served as models for most fabulists. These apologues were initially composed in Sanskrit and the oldest known essay is entitled Pantchatantra. The version that served as a model for all the others is that made in Arabic by Ibn Almokaffa under the title Kalila and Dimna, based on the translation into Pahlavi made around 570 by the physician Barzoûyeh. The work was later translated into Persian, Syriac, Greek and Hebrew, and it was a Hebrew version that John of Capua used for his translation around 1270. This Latin version is central to the history of this book, as it is the source of translations or imitations in Italian, German, French and Spanish. The editio princeps of this text appeared in Urach by Conrad Fyner around 1481 in the German translation made in the 1470s by Anton von Pforr (died in 1483) from the Latin version of John of Capua. It was illustrated with 128 woodcuts, some of them repeated, depicting animal, comic and sometimes licentious subjects. These woodcuts were acquired by the Strasbourg printer Johann Pruss, who used them largely for this first Latin edition. There are indeed 119 woods, some repea
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