Aesopus: Vita et Fabulae Ulm 1476 (Faksimile)

Title

en_US Aesopus: Vita et Fabulae Ulm 1476 (Faksimile)

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Original language: und

en_US #128 of 800

en_US Heinrich Steinhöwel

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T20:00:03Z

en_US 2005-09

en_US 1992

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:00:03Z

Date Issued

en_US 1476

Abstract

en_US I never thought we would have a copy of this wonderful book in the collection. From the time I first saw subscriptions being invited, I feared it would always be beyond our means. Prayers do get answered! This is a beautiful facsimile. The hand-colored illustrations from the copy in the Otto Schäfer collection are lovely. Many of them seem like old friends from the many times I have seen them reproduced in various forms. Looking through this tome helps me understand now some of the features of the accompanying Kommentar. The famous title-page, for example, is missing in the Schäfer copy and so is reprinted there in black-and-white from another copy. Other pages illustrated there seem to be the missing pages from this copy. The facsimile offers everything, including bruises and marks. A few of these occur in the lovely illustrations. I note one poorly printed colored illustration: it occurs two pages after the illustration of a man watching his own excrement; it is, I believe, a presentation of Aesop's resolution of the challenge to drink the sea dry. I found an extra copy of one page from the Extravagantes. Its verso begins and pictures Fable IX, The Fox, Wolf, and Lion. I will leave it loose at the back of this edition. This big book is a treasure I will keep coming back to!

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier cf. #3.1

en_US 6964 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82269

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Edition Libri Illustri Verlag

en_US Ludwigsburg

Subject

en_US PA3855.G6S843 1992 See all items with this value

en_US Steinhöwel, Aesop See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole