Mischle Schualim: Die Fuchsfabeln des Berekhja Ben Natronaj

Title

en_US Mischle Schualim: Die Fuchsfabeln des Berekhja Ben Natronaj

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Hebrew/German

en_US Einmalige Ausgabe in 750 Exemplaren

en_US Nach der ersten Ausgabe herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Lazarus Goldschmidt

Creator

en_US Ben Natronai, Berechiah

Contributor

en_US Michelson, Leo

Date

2016-01-25T19:28:23Z

en_US 2004-02

en_US 1921

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:28:23Z

Date Issued

en_US 1921

Abstract

en_US Bodemann #406.1. T of C on XIII shows the one-hundred-and-seven fables with rhyming German morals. In fact, it is a strange experience to read the title-page, Einleitung, and this T of C from the left-hand, as we do typically with Western books, and then to find that the rest of the book reads in the opposite direction through its 121 pages of jiddischer Reimprosa, as Bodemann calls it. Berekhja Ben Natronaj (sometimes known as Berechiah ha-Nakdan) lived sometime before the first half of the thirteenth century, perhaps in the Provence. Goldschmidt's introduction seems to indicate that this collection and Marie de France's overlap considerably in their material, so that there are good questions of which collection may have come from the other. Goldschmidt finds this author emphasizing the entertaining as well as the instructing function of his fable collection. Michelson's thirty-one woodcuts vary somewhat in size from 3 x 4 to 4 x 6. As Bodemann writes, they are medieval in style and technique. Among them I am most impressed by Der Affe und der Panther, which I take to be the Aesopic fable of the monkey that is mother of twins (112). Strong illustrations include WL (13), Der Esel und der Hund (14), Das Reh und die Hunde (80), Der Fuchs und die Katze (99), and Der Fuchs und die Fische (106). I feel privileged to have one of the seven-hundred-and-fifty copies of this book in the collection!

Identifier

en_US 4977 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80574

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Erich Reiss Verlag

en_US Berlin

Subject

en_US PJ5050.B4 M5 1921

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole