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Title
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Kalilah und Dimnah: Orientalische Fabeln
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Language note: German
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Boxed
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Husain Al-Kerbala-I
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Creator
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No Author
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Contributor
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Jordan, Hans-Jürgen (Afterword)
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Date
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2016-01-25T15:38:42Z
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2014-07
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1974
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T15:38:42Z
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Date Issued
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1974
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Abstract
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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.
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Identifier
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10255 (Access ID)
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Publisher
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Insel Verlag
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Frankfurt am Main
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Subject
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PN989.I5B43 1974
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Kalila and Dimna
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole