Esopus von Burkhard Waldis, Zweiter Theil

Title

en_US Esopus von Burkhard Waldis, Zweiter Theil

en_US Deutsche Bibliothek

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Herausgegeben und mit Erläuterungen versehen von Heinrich Kurz

Creator

en_US Aesop

Date

2016-01-25T19:49:48Z

en_US 1995-07

en_US 1862

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:49:48Z

Date Issued

en_US 1862

Abstract

en_US See my comments on the first part of this two-part work. This second part contains first Book 4. Waldis' own title is Das Vierdte Buch der Fabeln Esopi hat Hundert newer Fabeln (1). This fourth book with its longer fables takes some 299 pages. It is followed by a T of C for both parts, listing each of the fables. What follows next is Waldis' Ein warhafftige Historien von Zweyen Mewssen followed by three fables. Then, separately paginated as a unit over some 230 pages, there are the following: Lesarten, Amnerkungen, and Wörterverzeichniss, with a final T of C for the whole two-part work. I read through the first of the hundred fables in Book 4. The fox and wolf decide to go to Rome to get remission of their sins. On their way, the ass joins them. Somewhere in the Alps, the former two start complaining about the long and difficult trip and suggest that their sins could be just as well forgiven with confession and penance here. The ass, as usual, goes along with all that they say. Wolf and fox confess major sins of aggression against animals and humans and receive understanding responses from each other. I believe that the fox gives the wolf a penance of eating only what he finds within three paces of water. Then the ass confesses once eating some straw that his driver had put into his shoe to close up a hole. The other two are outraged at this huge crime and proclaim it better that the ass physically die for this otherwise unforgiveable sin. Waldis makes clear the point that we should not be taken in by wolf and fox types around us. The upper part of this book's outer spine has separated.

Identifier

en_US 5884 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81366

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Verlagsbuchhandlung von J.J. Weber

en_US Leipzig

Subject

en_US PT1795.W2A7 1862

en_US Burkhard Waldis

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole