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Ulm. circ. 1480.]
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239
lOJ. iEsopus. Vita etFabulj:. Cum Ayieni,
Adeuphonsus, et Poggii Facetiis. Germanice
et Latine. Printed hy John Zeiner. Ulm.
TVithout Pate. Folio.
Freytag appears to be among the earliest bibliographers who have
described this splendid and amusing volume. In his Adpar. Litterar.
vol. i. p. 71) he introduces it under a different leading article; and sup-
poses, but incorrectly, that it was printed at Augsbourg, in 4to. about
tlie year 1487; as Henry Steinhowel, the German translator of it,
flourished during the same period. Freytag censures the wood cuts
(as the reader may himself judge) without justice: ‘ Figurse—ligno
haud satis eleganter sunt incisee: ’ are his words ; and he next observes
—‘ Innumerabilibus prseterea ista collectio fabularum obscoenitatibus
et inconditis narrationibus referta est, quse seculi istius genium satis
superque produnt.’ His extract from Steinhbwel’s preface is rather
copious; and he conceives, on the authority of Leyser’s Hist. Poetar.
et Poemat. medii eevi, Hal. 1721, 8vo. p. 2036, that Adelphonsus, or
Aldefonsus, and Adolphus, are one and the same person. *
Panzer, in his Annal. Literat. Germ. p. 47, having given rather a
superficial account of the edition, Braun thought it advisable to be
more copious and pai’ticular. In his Not. Hist. Litt. pt. i. p. 98-9, he
is very faithful in his description; as a comparison of it with the book
itself justifies me in observing. Braun has also been indebted to
Freytag, but he properly disbelieves his chronological conclusion.
Without borrowing the words or the plan of Braun, the reader is
informed that, on the reverse of the first leaf, there is a whole length
portrait of iEsop, with a head similar to what will be found in page
246 post. iEsop is surrounded with subjects emblematical of
the occurrences of his Life. On the recto of the ensuing leaf begins
his Life, from the Greek, by Rimicius to * Anthonius tituli sancti
Chrysogoni presbiter Cardinalis.’ The German preface of Steinhowel
first ensues, with a small length figure, intended for iEsop, sitting
* Leyser quotes five Latin verses to prove that Adolphus wrote the above Fables in
the 14th century. The first two are these:
Anr.is raillenis elapsis, tri quoque centenis
Nec non quindenis, Adolphus fecit egenis.
^SOP.
239
lOJ. iEsopus. Vita etFabulj:. Cum Ayieni,
Adeuphonsus, et Poggii Facetiis. Germanice
et Latine. Printed hy John Zeiner. Ulm.
TVithout Pate. Folio.
Freytag appears to be among the earliest bibliographers who have
described this splendid and amusing volume. In his Adpar. Litterar.
vol. i. p. 71) he introduces it under a different leading article; and sup-
poses, but incorrectly, that it was printed at Augsbourg, in 4to. about
tlie year 1487; as Henry Steinhowel, the German translator of it,
flourished during the same period. Freytag censures the wood cuts
(as the reader may himself judge) without justice: ‘ Figurse—ligno
haud satis eleganter sunt incisee: ’ are his words ; and he next observes
—‘ Innumerabilibus prseterea ista collectio fabularum obscoenitatibus
et inconditis narrationibus referta est, quse seculi istius genium satis
superque produnt.’ His extract from Steinhbwel’s preface is rather
copious; and he conceives, on the authority of Leyser’s Hist. Poetar.
et Poemat. medii eevi, Hal. 1721, 8vo. p. 2036, that Adelphonsus, or
Aldefonsus, and Adolphus, are one and the same person. *
Panzer, in his Annal. Literat. Germ. p. 47, having given rather a
superficial account of the edition, Braun thought it advisable to be
more copious and pai’ticular. In his Not. Hist. Litt. pt. i. p. 98-9, he
is very faithful in his description; as a comparison of it with the book
itself justifies me in observing. Braun has also been indebted to
Freytag, but he properly disbelieves his chronological conclusion.
Without borrowing the words or the plan of Braun, the reader is
informed that, on the reverse of the first leaf, there is a whole length
portrait of iEsop, with a head similar to what will be found in page
246 post. iEsop is surrounded with subjects emblematical of
the occurrences of his Life. On the recto of the ensuing leaf begins
his Life, from the Greek, by Rimicius to * Anthonius tituli sancti
Chrysogoni presbiter Cardinalis.’ The German preface of Steinhowel
first ensues, with a small length figure, intended for iEsop, sitting
* Leyser quotes five Latin verses to prove that Adolphus wrote the above Fables in
the 14th century. The first two are these:
Anr.is raillenis elapsis, tri quoque centenis
Nec non quindenis, Adolphus fecit egenis.