Het leven en de fabels van Esopus: Teksteditie met inleiding, hertaling en commentaar

Title

en_US Het leven en de fabels van Esopus: Teksteditie met inleiding, hertaling en commentaar

Description

en_US Language note: Dutch

Gheraert Leeu, Hans Rijns and Willem van Bentum

Creator

en_US Leeu, Gheraert See all items with this value

Date

2020-01-23T17:38:46Z

2019-07

en_US 2016

Date Available

2020-01-23T17:38:46Z

Date Issued

en_US 2016

Abstract

en_US Here is a gracious gift of Hans Rijns promised at the meeting of the Renard Society in Prague in the summer of 2019. This is a major undertaking! The book is "bilingual" in the sense of giving the original text of Gheraert Leeu's edition of 1485 on the left-hand page and a contemporary translation on each right-hand page. Small reproductions of Leeu's illustrations accompany the right-hand page translations. It is my understanding that Leeu followed Steinhöwel's 1476 edition, and so the 164 fables are presented here in exactly the order they had in that ground-breaking edition. The illustrations surprise me in their closeness to those of Steinhöwel; they are far superior to their cousin Caxton's, who worked, as Leeu apparently did, from Julien Macho's 1480 French version. On the cover, the title illustration from Leeu is colored. It is hard to tell if the other illustrations were originally colored as well. A T of C of the life and fables appears on 49-56. What comes before that is an extensive introduction in Dutch. There is a helpful register of objects found in fables starting on 467. I am not sure where one finds the commentary promised in the subtitle. What a wonderful gift! I wish there were a comparable edition in English!

Identifier

en_US 11607 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/125325

Language

en_US dut

Publisher

en_US Uitgeverij Verloren

en_US Hilversum, Netherlands

Subject

en_US PA3855.D8R55 2016 See all items with this value

Aesop See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value