Kalilah und Dimnah: Orientalische Fabeln

Title

en_US Kalilah und Dimnah: Orientalische Fabeln

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Boxed

en_US Husain Al-Kerbala-I

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Jordan, Hans-Jürgen (Afterword)

Date

2016-01-25T15:38:42Z

en_US 2014-07

en_US 1974

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:38:42Z

Date Issued

en_US 1974

Abstract

en_US There are several unusual things about this lovely book. It is boxed, and comes with a place-marking ribbon. While published by a Frankfurt firm, it is printed -- very nicely -- in the German Democratic Republic. I checked and found that Insel Verlag had two parts, in Leipzig and Frankfurt, during the time of Germany's being split. A third unusual feature of this book lies in the ten full-page reproductions of the old oriental colored miniatures. They include, for example, Dablaschlim visiting Pidpai (16); the unfaithful woman with her lover in the presence of the unseen guest (72); the wolf, crow, and hyena devouring the camel (104); TT (112); and Dimnah and Schanzabah with the lion (120). Apparently two of the ten illustrations are on the box. A final surprising characteristic of this version of Kalilah and Dimna is that the stories are divided into only two cycles, a beginning cycle around Bidpai and then a long cycle about hypocritical betrayers, followed by Lehrreichen Unterweisungen containing some twenty-eight fables. There is a T of C after Hans-Jürgen Jordan's Nachwort.

Identifier

en_US 10255 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76243

Publisher

en_US Insel Verlag

en_US Frankfurt am Main

Subject

en_US PN989.I5B43 1974 See all items with this value

en_US Kalila and Dimna See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole