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Aesopus moralisatus, written in about A.D. 1400 in Italy

At end: --'Explicit Liber Esopi. Deo gratias. Amen': 62 fables in elegiac verse, with the metrical preface beginning 'Ut iuuet et prosit.' This is the collection of which the author used to be styled the Anonymus Nevelcti (Novelet's edition was published in 1610 at Frankfurt), but now is believed to be Gualterus Anglicus. The distich beginning 'Fine fruor' is found in this manuscript both at the end of the 60th and of the 62nd fable, the two supplementary ones being 'De capone et accipitre'…
Collection: Libri Manuscripts
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 170
Extents: 20 Leaves
Dates: written in about A.D. 1400 in Italy