Ulrich Boner Der Edelstein: Faksimile der ersten Druckausgabe Bamberg 1461

Title

en_US Ulrich Boner Der Edelstein: Faksimile der ersten Druckausgabe Bamberg 1461

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Boxed set

en_US Doris Fouquet

Creator

en_US Boner, Ulrich

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2016-01-25T19:58:56Z

en_US 2009-04

en_US 1972

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:58:56Z

Date Issued

en_US 1972

Abstract

en_US This book is the companion to the facsimile of Boner's Der Edelstein. It is well put together by a good librarian. Fouquet helps the reader to assess Boner as a fabulist and then Pfister as a publisher. She pays special attention to the woodcuts; I believe they have attracted much more scholarly attention than Boner's texts. My own investigations led me to disagree with Fouquet about the order in which the three elements of a given page were printed. The one botched page seems to indicate rather that the print is superimposed upon the picture than vice-versa. This book gathers a helpful set of illustrations to show the points that Fouquet makes. For me the material at the end of this book was the most helpful. From Fouquet's list of editions, I was actually able to find three available digitally, the editions of Eschenburg, Benecke, and Pfeiffer. They were my major help as I worked my way through Pfister's rendition of Boner's text. My work did not raise my estimation for Pfister as a scholarly publisher. Lines and words are skipped. Some sentences make no sense because the most important word is left out. In this respect, I believe Steinhöwel did the better job of the two. Perhaps the most maddeningly botched text of all is the epilogue, in which Boner gives a serious sense of what he thinks he is doing. Fouquet also includes Inhaltsangaben, summaries of the eighty-six fables that Pfister publishes. Oh, how I wish that those summaries had been transcriptions of the actual texts! I sought the latter in vain. Apparently, all of the textual editions are formed -- appropriately enough -- from Boner's manuscripts rather than from Pfister's book. Of the three I worked through, only one took Boner's book as a serious textual witness. Fouquet is also not absolutely reliable in her renditions of Boner's stories.

Identifier

en_US 6740 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82051

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Verlag Müller und Schindler

en_US Stuttgart

Subject

en_US PT1507.B7E34 1461a

en_US Secondary

Type

en_US Book, Whole