Der Edelstein

Title

en_US Der Edelstein

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Boxed set; #429 of 950

en_US Ulrich Boner

Creator

en_US Boner, Ulrich See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:58:56Z

en_US 2009-04

en_US 1972

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:58:56Z

Date Issued

en_US 1461

Abstract

en_US This book was my bible for a month in the summer of 2009 as I prepared a paper for the Renard Society on Boner's Der Edelstein. Actually, I had scanned the facsimile into my computer before I left. Then in Mannheim I worked through about three fables and their illustrations per day. This is a beautifully made book! The original was published by Albrecht Pfister in Bamberg. Maybe the best testimony I can give to the quality of these reproductions is that I made my own set from the scans of this facsimile but also ordered a set from the library that has the world's only known copy of this book, the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel. The scans of the reproductions were better than the pictures of the original! This is the first illustrated book ever printed, and it may be the first book ever published in German. For me the great quality of this book is its illustrations and especially their coloring. Exquisitely done! Commentators note that the woodcut maker is not particularly adept at animals; it is often hard to decipher from a woodcut which animal is being pictured. But his humans are excellent! They are often pictured from the back. The colorist's great gift is shading within a specific color. As I mentioned in my Renard paper given in Utrecht, this is an unusual book: it has no title-page, no page numbers, no sentence punctuation, no end stops for its poetry, and no titles for its fables. The woodcuts serve as the great markers. There is a raised dot for the end of each line of verse and -- when the rubricator remembers - a line through the first letter of the new line following. There is a companion volume, which I will list separately. Together the two books make up a boxed set. See Bodemann #1.1. There is a second, distinct edition a few years later with new woodcuts, and there is also only one copy of that edition, in Berlin.

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier cf. 1.1

en_US 6739 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82050

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Müller and Schindler

en_US Original: Bamberg

Subject

en_US PT1507.B7 E34 1461a See all items with this value

en_US Aesop and Ulrich Boner See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole