Aesop's Fables, 1996

Item — Box: CFC CDs Box 1

Identifier: CFC2021.0358.1

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Carlson Fable Collection is a gathering of primary fable materials at Reinert Alumni Memorial Library at Creighton University. It grew out of the personal collection of fable materials gathered by Rev. Gregory Carlson, S.J. and was given to the Creighton Libraries in 1996. There are more than 10,000 books and approximately 8,000 artifacts in the collection.

From plates to stamps, from cards to whiskey decanters, from toys to posters, you'll find just about anything you can imagine here. Please explore all that is to offer here in my fables Catalogue of Objects.

This is the largest online catalog of fable related objects on the internet. Many are from Aesop's Fables but you will find La Fontaine, Velazquez and Krylov also represented in this collection.

Dates

1996

Extent

1 CDs : CD. PDFs of editions in English, German, Latin, and Spanish. Jewel case cover of Steinhoewel's title-page. Purchased online.

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

This CD contains Aesop in four languages. The key to the English edition may be that the publisher is listed as "Cassell, Petter, Galpin, & Co." The company took that specific name in 1878. Note also the comment after the introduction by JBR(undell) that about 130 fables not in the first and second editions have been added by another editor. A guess says that this is the edition in our collection for which I have guessed a date of 1890. The break before the added 132 fables comes at the top of 219 here, as in that edition. 1869 and 1874 may have been the dates of the first and second editions, both published, as I believe, without clear indication of a date of publication. The German editionlisted as published in 1479, seems to be an authentic Steinhoewel, part of the Rosenwald collection given to the Library of Congress. The Latin, likewise from Rosenwald and LC, is the Sebastian Brant edition of 1501, printed by Jacob of Pfortzheim . The illustrations are hand-colored. There seems to be another book bound together with Brant's "Esopus." The Spanish version is from Jacob Cronberger in 1521. This disc is a richer resource than I had thought! To get a menu, click on "CD-Start."