Exemplario

EXEMPLARIO.

Exemplario contra los engalos y peligros del mundo. Castilian translation of a Latin version of Calila e Dimna. Printer: Pablo Hurus, Zaragoza, 30th March 1493. Size: 28,8 x 21,5 cm. With illustrations. 104 leaves (208 pages).Unique incunabulum copy. 117 drawings.

Incunabulum from Zaragoza represented by the only known copy, unfortunately incomplete, which offers a Castilian translation of Calila e Dimna.

Owing to the Arabic translation, the fables of Bidpai are known by this name which were written in Sanscrit and translated into among others, Persian, both of which have been lost. Towards the year 750 the Arabic version from the Persian text, manages to universalize this text of universal literature, thanks to later translations into other languages. But at the same time as the Persian translation, it had also been translated into Hebrew attributed to the Rabbi Joel. It is this version that Juan de Capua, an Italian translator from the XIII century, who had renounced Judaism, converts into Latin with the tittle Directorium humanae vitae, the Latin original which is used for this second translation into Spanish, given that previously there had been a direct translation into Latin in the XIII century by order of Alphonse X while still Prince.

Along with the interest of the text, Pablo Hurus offers us as is usual in him, a generously illustrated edition.

-Our edition: Valencia, 1996. Coedited with Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid.

-Edition of 3.000 copies, numbered and signed by notary, and with the signature of the printer publisher.

-Binding: Parchment on wooden board.

-Presentation case cloth lined with gold engraved leather spine containing facsimile and study in Spanish.

-Specially made laid paper.

-Study in Spanish conducted by Daniel Martín Arguedas

(Bachelor of Hispanic Philology from the University of Alcalá de Henares). Included in Bibliofilia Antigua IV.