One of the many early 18th-century Naples editions of the 94 Aesop fables in Latin verses with notes underneath, and the 5 additional fables found by the German philologist and classical scholar Marquart Gudius, together with the extended and scholarly notes and annotations, printed underneath each fable. Together with the 42 fables of Avianus in Latin verses without notes or annotations, the Greek texts of some fables of Aesop, and the Batrachomyomachia by Pseudo-Homer in alternating Greek and Latin lines.
These texts are based on the recension by David van Hoogstraten (1658-1724), the conrector of the Latin School of Amsterdam (1694-1722). Apart from being a prolific Dutch and Neo-Latin poet, Van Hoogstraten was an esteemed linguist and philologist who edited a number of classical authors. The first edition of the Van Hoogstraten edition appeared in Amsterdam in 1701. Our edition is a page-for-page edition of the 1729 Naples edition by Felix Musca for Josephi Ponzelli, 1729 (see nr. 33).
With ownerships entry of Nicolai del Rosso (dated 1745) on title-page, who also added his annotations, esp. on pp. 1-120. Rather stained and slightly browned copy. Spine half loose, vellum soiled and wrinkled. Cf. Bodemann, 94.1.