Esope

Titre:	Esope
Date:	XV^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:
Forme:	Prose
Contenu:	Traduction de la version française par Julien Macho du recueil de fables ésopiques composé en latin par Heinrich Steinhöwel.
Incipit:	Here begyneth the preface or prologue of the fyrste booe of Esope. Romulus son of Thybere of the Cyte of Atyque / gretyng / Esope man of grece / subtyll and Ingenyous / techeth in his fables how men ought to kepe and rewle them well / And to thende that he shold shewe the lyf and customes of al maner of men / he induceth the byrdes / the trees and the beetles spekynge…
Explicit:	… And thought he shold be the better / And take more hede to his cures and benefyces than he had done / This was a good answere of a good preest and an honest /

Manuscrits

Éditions anciennes

Fables
Westminster, William Caxton, 26 mars 1484
ARLIMA: EA4591 GW: 00376 ISTC: ia00117500 USTC: 500100 518733 ESTC: S111230
Exemplaire en ligne: [London]
Fables
[London], Richard Pynson, [vers 1492-1494]
ARLIMA: EA4592 GW: 00377 ISTC: ia00118000 USTC: 500271 ESTC: S90050
Fables
[London], Richard Pynson, [vers 1500-1501]
ARLIMA: EA4593 GW: 00378 ISTC: ia00118100 USTC: 500358 516105
Exemplaire en ligne: [London]
Fables
[London], [Richard Pynson], [vers 1525]
ARLIMA: EA4594 USTC: 516274
The fables in Englishe with all his lyfe and fortune. Whereunto is added the Fables of Avyan. And also the Fables of Poge the Florentyne very pleasaunt to reade
[London], [Henry Wykes pour John Walley], [vers 1570]
ARLIMA: EA4595 USTC: 507027
The fables with al his life and fortune, how he was subtil, wise, and borne in Greece. Whereunto is added the fables of Avicen sic: and also the fables of Alphonce, with the fables of Poge the Florentine, very pleasant to reade
[London], [Joan Orwin] pour Thomas Adams, 1596
ARLIMA: EA4596 USTC: 513015

Éditions modernes

The Fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484 with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio, now again edited and induced by Joseph Jacobs, London, Nutt, 1889, 2 t. [GB: t. 1, t. 2] [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
Comptes rendus:
Jewish Chronicle, 27 déc. 1889. — Jas. S. Cotton, dans Academy, 37, p. 39-40. — Athenaeum, 1, 1890, p. 272-273. — Neubauer, dans Athenaeum, 1, 1890, p. 307. — Jacobs, dans Athenaeum, 1, 1890, 340-341 et 502-503. — Neubauer, dans Jewish Review, avril 1890. — Lit. World, 28 fév. 1890, p. 199. — F. B. Jevons, dans Classical Review, 5:5 1891, p. 212-215. — Hartland, dans Folk-Lore, 1, p. 112. — Léopold Sudre, dans Romania, 20, 1891, p. 289-297 et 508-509. — Barth, dans Mélusine, 5, p. 11-12. — Gaidoz, dans Mélusine, 5, p. 69-70 — Bédier 1925, p. 76, n. 2 — Pitré, dans Arch. per le trad. popolari, bull. bibl. 9, p. 139.
Réimpression:
- New York, Burt Franklin, 1970
Lenaghan, Robert T., William Caxton's Translation of the 'Subtyl Histories and Fables of Aesop': An Annotated Edition, Ph. D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1957.
Caxton's Aesop, edition with an introduction and notes by R. T. Lenaghan, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1967, [vi] + 264 p.
The History and Fables of Aesop, translated and printed by William Caxton, 1484, reproduced in facsimile from the copy in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, éd. Edward Hodnett, London, 1976.

Traductions modernes

Études

Curdy, A. E., « The versions of the fable of Peacock and Juno », Studies in Honor of A. Marshall Elliott, in Two Volumes, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press; Paris, Champion; Leipzig, Harrassowitz, 1911, t. 1, p. 329-346. [GB: t. 1, t. 2] [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
Wilson, Robert H., « The Poggiana in Caxton's Esope », Philological Quarterly, 30, 1951, p. 348-352.
Wolfgang, Lenora D., « Caxton's Aesop: the origin and evolution of a fable or, do not believe everything you hear », Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 135:1, 1991, p. 73-83. [jstor.org]