Briefe und Aesop-Fabeln: Codex Ottobonianus Latinus 3029: Kommentarband

Title

en_US Briefe und Aesop-Fabeln: Codex Ottobonianus Latinus 3029: Kommentarband

en_US Belser Faksimile Edition aus der Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Original language: grc

en_US Boxed facsimile

en_US Martin Luther; Manfred Schulze u. Walter Simon

Creator

en_US Luther, Martin See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Steinhöwel, Zainer

Date

2016-01-25T20:16:05Z

en_US 2012-06

en_US 1983

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:16:05Z

Date Issued

en_US 1983

Abstract

en_US I had read of this edition many times when I first started consciously collecting fables, but it was then prohibitively expensive. I was surprised to find this one copy after a rather exhaustive web search. This first volume contains commentary, boxed together with a folder of reproduced facsimile sheets of Luther's letters and fables. Walter Simon is responsible for the fable portion of this oversized (over 9 wide and almost 13 tall) 125 + 5 page book. He offers an introduction on 55. Luther had Steinhöwel's 1477/78 edition from Zainer in Ulm before him as he wrote; critics debate whether he also had some (other) form of Romulus as an explicit source. Der Entwurf (62) presents a critical edition of Luther's texts as they are reworked on Luther's first set of sheets. Interspersed among these pages here and throughout this commentary volume are illustrations from Steinhöwel's 1477/78 edition, published by Zainer in Ulm. The fables Luther presents are these: CJ, WL, FM, Vom hund vnd schaff, DS, LS, LS again, FG, Vom diebe, WC, Vom hund vnd der hundin, Von D Mogenhofer, Vom Esel vnd lewen, and TMCM. There are several page-numbering orders imposed by various owners of the sheets over the centuries. Die Reinschrift then presents the clean copy Luther himself prepared, with an epimythial vice above each fable. Torheit, Hass, and Untrew are the first three. Die Drucke then presents the version printed in 1557 after Luther's death, including the Vorrede that is not contained in the Vatican pages facsimiled here. The book goes on then (88) to offer seven fables told by Luther according to contemporary Nachschriften, which I take to be various reports and memoirs of Luther's acts. Extensive comments are on 91-103. The appendix on 105 presents first the Romulus Latin version of Aesop for those fables that Luther presented, then Steinhöwel's German for the same fables, and finally Martin Dorpius' versions in Latin of the same fables. One line of thinking is that it was Dorpius' versions -- and not Romulus -- that was his other source besides Steinhöwel. It is all large and lovely!

Identifier

en_US 8267 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83506

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Belser

en_US Zurich

Subject

en_US BR332.L5115 1983 See all items with this value

en_US Martin Luther See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole