De Fabels van Lokman: Naar het Latijn van Thomas Erpenius

Title

en_US De Fabels van Lokman: Naar het Latijn van Thomas Erpenius

Description

en_US Language note: Bilingual: Latin/Dutch

en_US Original language: ara

en_US Leo Ross

Creator

en_US Erpenius, Thomas See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:39:01Z

en_US 1996-07

en_US 1964

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:39:01Z

Date Issued

en_US 1964

Abstract

en_US It has taken me years to get to this book. I do not know enough about Lokman, and I think I am not going to learn about him in Dutch. The surprise to me in this unpaginated paperback book is that Lokman is presented first in Latin, specifically in thirty-seven prose fables. Those I can read! Almost all seem standard Aesopic presentations. The moral of The Sick Stag (Fable #III) is surprising: His pains increase whose family increases. In Fable IX, it is not a goat but a deer that falls into the well, only to be admonished by the fox that he should have thought about a way out before he fell in. In Fable XII, Mulier et Gallina, the woman who overfeeds her productive hen wanting more has been getting silver eggs from this hen. I do not think that I had seen that approach to this fable before. I am not sure that I have before seen Fable #XXII on the planting of a bramble bush. Of course, it takes over the garden. There are two fables on blacks trying to become white (#XVII and #XXIIII). SW (#XXXIV) is told in the poorer form in the Latin. #XXXVII, Anser et Hirundo, seems new. When the pair of friends encounter a trap, the swallow can fly up and away, but the goose is caught. The Dutch translations seem to be in rhyming couplets. An appendix seems to present the same thirty-seven fables now in Dutch prose translations. Erpenius was apparently a professor of Arabic and other oriental languages. He seems to have flourished in the early 1600's. There is a pasted-in photograph facing the title-page. Might that be Leo Ross?

Identifier

en_US 5595 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81128

Language

en_US dut

Publisher

en_US L.J.C. Boucher Paperbacks

en_US S-Gravenhage

Subject

en_US PJ7741.L8 1964 See all items with this value

en_US Lokman See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole